Teesside Bridging The World

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Previously unseen Sydney Harbour Bridge construction photographs and historic plans for some of the world’s most famous bridges are to feature in a new book celebrating Teesside’s bridge building heritage by Dr Tosh Warwick.
Tosh has been busy this year compiling Ayresome Art as well as lots of other projects celebrating the heritage of his beloved Boro and Teesside. He has also been actively campaigning to preserve icons from Dorman Long and Redcar Steel Works for the future.
This book promises to be a celebration of Teesside's bridge building impact around the world. BOOK ARTICLE
 

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Here is another photo Tosh has sent.
This time the Tyne Bridge.
 

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Thanks for the photo - Amazing how men with so much poor equipment managed to build such great bridges with such skill. Their good condition 90 years on is a testament to this.

My maternal grandad worked at Cargo Fleet (Dorman Long) from the age of 13 (born 1905), by 1930 he might have been working in the small Stainless Steel section as a overhead crane operator in a totally unprotected cabin on the SHB. I never knew him, he died of industrial diseases from the works, at the ripe old age of 52.
 
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I love this. I share Tosh's passion for the historical relevance of our industrial heritage and always point out to children and young people in schools that just as we have inherited physical traits of our ancestors - facial likenesses etc, we inherited their work ethic, their spirit of enterprise and their creative drive. What they had - we have - we just need decision makers to allow it to come the fore and change a teaching system that programmes results, not facilitates learning. On the bridge and steel note I was really disappointed / surprised to learn that the steel of The Transporter Bridge was mainly brought in from Scotland - perhaps we have always been shooting ourselves in our collective feet!
 
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I love this. I share Tosh's passion for the historical relevance of our industrial heritage and always point out to children and young people in schools that just as we have inherited physical traits of our ancestors - facial likenesses etc, we inherited their work ethic, their spirit of enterprise and their creative drive. What they had - we have - we just need decision makers to allow it to come the fore and change a teaching system that programmes results, not facilitates learning. On the bridge and steel note I was really disappointed / surprised to learn that the steel of The Transporter Bridge was mainly brought in from Scotland - perhaps we have always been shooting ourselves in our collective feet!
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the most galling one was the Riverside getting knocked up with German Steel in the shadow of CORUS 😱 . Just amplifies what a Labyrinth trade ‘deals’ are .
 
No hard hats or high vis.
Tremendous feats of construction and precision.
The area deserves for its worldwide contribution to engineering.
 
There’s a great pic of new Boro town hall Getting built with a top boss stood on top looking like Brunel overseeing them
 
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