I love this. That's my plans when I'm next up north sortedIf you are going to North Road Station then you need to take the new walkway from the museum down to Skerne Railway bridge, shown on the painting above, the oldest working railway bridge in the world. The whole area has been landscaped and tidied up, so you can walk to the town centre along the Skerne and beneath the railway bridge that used to be on the bank of a fiver note.
I understand them being Quakers meant there were no pubs on the new ‘development‘ on top of the cliff ( Jewel streets etc ) to keep it ’devout’ during the working people’s holidays . Their bricks are also white which was a Quaker preference .The Pease family were at the centre of the development of Teesside
Stockton to Darlington railway (they lent a lot of the money and later the LNER)
Middlesbrough Estate (the land that Middlesbrough was built on) they were landowners that developed the Victorian town, but were not industralists.
The whole development of Saltburn
Hutton Hall - Guisborough
The Hall near the beach at Marske
Northern Echo
Local Liberal MPs (Cleveland, Darlington, Whitby) once quakers were allowed to be MPs.
They were South Yorkshire quakers who made money from wool originally, then set up a bank with the profits.
Their bank folded in 1903 after a lost legal battle about inheritance. What was left merged into Barclays Bank. One arm of the family moved into the City of London and a family member married Chrispen Odey who owns some very big funds (worth £300m), her brother is a major Investment Trust manager too.
I remember as a kid the path along the inside of Preston park being more "embankmenty". I was also told that the line cut across the road near to the old Clareville hotel as it headed off to Urlay nook, you can see the houses here just down from titty bottle park (Victoria park) are set at an angle this was to accommodate where the old line ran in front of them.
Is there owt left of St Johns Crossing?Also the old ticket office building in Stockton boils my blood, anywhere else it would be a museum or attraction.