Teesside - Interesting / Fun Facts

Magic Man

Magic Man

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I've been asked to knock up a presentation at work for my team which includes some 'fun facts' or 'anything interesting' about where I am from. So far I have included the Boro and parmos (obv)...

I'd appreciate any other interesting things I could say that the area is famous for etc?
 
inventor of the friction match, John Walker, from Stockton
The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was the first passenger railway to use steam trains to transport passengers.
Teesside built Dorman Long bridges as far afield as Newcastle tne bridge, Sydney harbour bridge, Omdurman Bridge in Sudan, the Chien Tang River Bridge in China
 
Teesside is often misspelled by those from outside the region as Teeside. The fact it is on the banks of the Tees is the clue.

Or you could mention how we were labelled the infant Hercules by Gladstone and that the area grew to supply the world with steel etc. Sydney harbour bridge and so on.
 
Depends if its a joke piece or not, fact you're leading with Boro and parmo leads me to believe it is
 
VestasBoro said:
Depends if its a joke piece or not, fact you're leading with Boro and parmo leads me to believe it is
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I wouldn't say it's a joke piece, but I also don't want to bore the rest of the team to tears. I was looking for a fun whilst informative kind of angle...
 
Magic Man said:
I wouldn't say it's a joke piece, but I also don't want to bore the rest of the team to tears. I was looking for a fun whilst informative kind of angle...
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Just show the Jeff stelling piece, Uefa cup run, League cup win, bit on the structures around the world built with Teesside steel, few photos of Captain cook, Pauline from Eastenders, James Arthur, a couple of Bob Mortimer jokes, Some photos of us being bombed first during the war, The top gear lot in Boro tops, Few photos of Roseberry topping and Saltburn pier mixed in with the blast furnace and drunk kids down southfield road. Pigbag as the soundtrack.
 
Home to some of the biggest music performers the world as ever seen

Paul Rodgers - Free
David Coverdale - Whitesnake
Chris Rea of course
Paul Smith of Maximo Park

James Arthur and Journey South for the younger ones

The man who wrote the film and Tv music for Baywatch, the Oprah Winfrey Show, Sesame St - Ron Aspery
 
Magic Man said:
I've been asked to knock up a presentation at work for my team which includes some 'fun facts' or 'anything interesting' about where I am from. So far I have included the Boro and parmos (obv)...

I'd appreciate any other interesting things I could say that the area is famous for etc?
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Christopher Dresser who had dresser potteries on Linthorpe Road was a HUGE influence on the German ‘Bauhaus’ seen as radical and groundbreaking the designs Christopher Dresser produced and aped by Bauhaus were produced near FIFTY YEARS previously!!

Imagine seeing the I phone being released in 1959!! that’s how ahead of his time he was.

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