Show on map Orme The Viking is part of the Ormesby Beck landscaping project and was unveiled on April 30th 2012.
Orme being a viking word for serpent or dragon and the suffix “by” being common locally for a viking dwelling place.
Pupils at Berwick Hills Primary School designed the statue, outfit and weapons, and also the dragon seating.
Show on map This small tunnel built by George Stephenson on Arnold Road dates from 1824 and was constructed under what would have then been the brand new Stockton & Darlington Railway.
The interior of the tunnel shows numerous joins where it has been modified and expanded over the years, it now carries a recently built road.
Show on map Edward Pease left £10,000 for the building of a library on his death in 1880
The library was opened on 23rd October 1885 by Lady Lymington and is still a library today.
CLEVELAND INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS
Hear the behind the scenes story of restarting the Redcar Blast Furnace and bringing steelmaking back to Teesside.
This event is FREE, but we are expecting a high degree of interest in this exciting topic, so please register with Sue at events@cieng.org to confirm your interest
Members and non-members welcome.
Centuria Building,
Teesside University,
Middlesbrough,
TS1 3BA
Tel: 01642 218121
Show on map Darlington North Road station has existed in this area since 1825 although the current building dates from 1842, it stopped being the main station in Darlington when Bank Top opened in 1887
The building and services declined with it ending up a vandalised and unmanned halt by 1973, it was then restored as a museum which opened in 1975, which in more recent times has become known as the Head of Steam
It would appear it was building “E9” on the Stockton to Darlington Railway.
Amongst the exhibits inside are a restored ticket office.
Several Stockton to Darlington Railway boundary markers can be found in the car park and museum
Show on map Locomotion No.1 which was originally called Active, was built by George and Robert Stephensons company in 1825 for use on the Stockton to Darlington Railway where it was used for the worlds first passenger service on 27 September 1825, it remained in use until 1841.
In was restored in 1857 and kept as Alfred Kitchings workshop until the 1880s
Between 1892 and 1975 it was on display at Darlington Bank Top railway station.
Show on map The Skerne Bridge was designed by Ignatius Bonomi and was one of the worlds first railway bridges.
It now lies sadly neglected and hard to reach behind an industrial estate, although its still in use by the railway to this day.
For most of the 1990s it featured on the back of the £5 note with Locomotion No.1 passing over it at the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway
Show on map Joseph Pease (22 June 1799 – 8 February 1872) was heavily involved in the Stockton and Darlington Railway and local collieries, he was also the first Quaker MP in Britain in 1832
This statue was originally unveiled in 28 September 1875 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the sculptor was George Anderson Lawson and the foundry Cox and Sons.
The reliefs around the base of the represent key themes in Pease’s life.
Politics, this panel shows Pease with Lords John Russell and Palmerston on his entry into Parliament.
Abolition of slavery
Industry, a locomotive and colliery are shown
Education
In 1958 the statue was relocated as part of a development, then in 2007 the statue was restored and returned to its original location.
Show on map The Bulmer Stone lies sadly stranded on a little shelf behind a fence since 1923.
It is a Shap granite boulder deposited at the end of the ice age and once marked the northern edge of Darlington and stood on the roadside.
The name is said to come from Willy Bulmer the borough crier who announced news from it. It was also known as the ‘Battling Stone’Â by the towns weavers who once beat their flax upon it.
It is also associated with the ancient rhyme :-
In Darnton towne ther is a stane,
And most strange is yt to tell,
That yt turnes nine times round aboute
When yt hears ye clock strike twell.
Show on map William Thomas Stead was the second editor of the Northern Echo and is seen as one of the founding fathers of modern investigative journalism. He used this stone opposite the Northern Echo offices to tether his dogs and pony.
Mr Stead was heavily involved in campaigning for world peace and defending civil liberties and was killed on the maiden voyage of the Titanic on his way peace congress at Carnegie Hall.