Show on map These extensive concrete remains lie just North of the current SSI Blast Furnace.
A post war map shows this structure between the Warrenby Slag Works and the Slag and Tarmacadam Works.
To me the layout of rails and concrete blocks suggest a row of storage hoppers which rail waggon could be driven underneath for loading, although i’m yet to find an old picture of what was actually here.
Show on map Esther Cleveland (September 9, 1893 – June 25, 1980) was the daughter of American president Grover Cleveland, she is the only child of a President to have been born in the White House.
Esther married Captain William Bosanquet in 1918,  who became the manager of Skinningrove Iron Works after fighting in the First World War, they lived in Kirkleatham Old Hall which is now a museum.
This 1934 newspaper article from America newspaper pictures her outside the Hall, Esther returned to America in 1966 after the death of her husband and is buried in New Hampshire
Their daughter was the British philosopher Philippa Foot.
Show on map As I was driving past this morning, I noticed Steve Waller marking out some grave locations in the park, presumably for Heritage Week.
John Gjers was an ironmaster owning the Gjers Mills Ayresome Ironworks, Florence Gjers (his second wife) was the last burial in the park on 8th August 1950
Immediately next to them is John Vaughan Jr (19 year-old son of the founder of Bolckow and Vaughan)
You’ll probably have to be quick if you want to catch these and all the others that were marked out.
The Cleveland Mining Heritage Society are organising two walks as part of the 2012 Heritage Open Days. A three hour walk from Goathland Station on Saturday 8th September at 1pm. And short tours of the Grosmost Ironworks on Sunday 9th September between 1pm and 5pm.
Show on map Things look pretty un-inspiring when you start behind the ‘Navigation’ near to the Riverside Stadium with the beck just being a concrete sided trough with clogged rubbish traps.
As you move east things take a turn of the better.
A little futher on are some gates, perhaps some sort of flood defence as this area will be tidal ?
After these it becomes rather pleasant with some ducks being seen.
The beck then takes a sharp turn to the north and join up with River Tees.
This would have been a very industrial location in the past surrounded by iron works, although the area to the south was a marsh. It doesn’t exist on the 1858 map as the beck flows under the railway near to the Navigation Inn, but this redirection to the opposite side of railway exists on the 1894 map perhaps due to the construction of the Ormesby Ironworks.
Show on map This area looks to have been developed as a public park in the late 1980s but is no longer maintained and tricky to reach for the public. It was actually opened by Prince Charles
At the top of the hill is a viewpoint which has been vandalised in the past, but looks forgotten about now.
No traces of any older structures are visible, although the view up the river towards Middlesbrough is still good.
Down by the riverside is interesting as this is one of the only points downstream of Middlesbrough you can access the banks of the Tees without being on private property.
A large concrete pillar stands in the water which may correspond to a Slag Conveyer shown in the 1929 OS map, although i’m by no means certain of that.
Rows of rotted wooden posts are also visible at the waters edge which presumably are the mooring posts for Cargo Fleet Wharf, although i’m yet to locate a photo of this area in use.
Show on map This bridge crossing the main railway now stands isolated behind Dockside Road and the back of the South Tees Motor Sports Park which covers the location of the Cargo Fleet Ironworks
Its inaccessible from either end, presumably to stop vandals throwing things onto passing trains as crossing wouldn’t actually get you anywhere.
Dave Walsh then quickly posed an interesting question about whether this was actually the bridge that carried the Cleveland Railway to the Normanby Jetty, to which I didn’t know the answer. Looking at the 1894 map there are actually two adjacent bridges, the northern one going to the Cargo Fleet Wharf and the southern one going to the Normanby Jetty used by Bell Brothers to transport ironstone to their works at Port Clarence.
The 1915 map appear the show the southerly bridge gone, leaving only the remaining one to the Cargo Fleet Wharf, but i’m by no means certain of all its functions over the years so any additional information would be welcome.
Update : Simon Chapman has kindly shared a 1972 photo of the bridge with me. In front of the bridge on the right can be seen the remaining parapet of the Cleveland Railway bridge to Normanby Jetty which was subsequently demolished. On the left of the photo is Normanby signalbox which controlled the junction for mineral traffic into Cargo Fleet Works.
Show on map Originally a paper mill from 1757, it was converted to produce linen for sails in the 1850s. It was closed in 1908 due to the decline of sailing ships 
The mill was demolished in 1937 to widen the road, but there are the remain of a sturdy sandstone wall on the riverbank which was presumably part of the building.
Show on map The site known as Greatham Saltworks was founded in the late 1800s before becoming Cerebos around the turn of the century. In 1968 Cerebos became part of Ranks Hovis McDougall and products such as Bisto Gravy and Atora Suet were manufactured.
From 1997 to closure in 2002 some Sharwoods products were made here, on the day I visited it was in the final stages of demolition.
The internals of site were photographed extensively on urbex sites such as 28 Days Later
Show on map The Mechanics Institution was built in 1854 and is listed as being designed by James Pigott Pritchett, although it may be the work of his son James Pigott Pritchett Jr who set up a practice in Darlington in that very same year.
In later years its been a bank and a bar.