Show on map This sign is down an alley just off Borough Road. It mentions Arthur Thompson Auctioneer, Valuer and Estate Agent established 1866.
Judging by records held at the Teesside Archives, the company became Thompson and March Ltd around 1949, so it may predates that.
A smaller “Royal Liver Friendly Society” sign is also visible below.
Show on map No trace remains of the cemetery as it was cleared in 1962 and the news reports below say some remaining headstones were removed in 1978 (although locals say they were still there well into the 1980s)
The site is vast and over 11,000 people are buried under the park including Sir Hugh Gilzean Reid (founder of the Evening Gazette), ironmaster John Gjiers and the children of ironmasters Bolckow and Vaughan.
A great deal of research has been done into the site by Steve Waller which you can read about on the Northern Echo and Evening Gazette websites.
Amazing theres currently absolutely nothing in the way of signs or memorials, so its unfortunately another example of Middlesbrough forgetting its past.
Thanks to Peter Edwards for pointing this one out, there may still be a display in the entrance of the Teesside Archives, but I don’t know if its still there.
Show on map I have previously posted this photograph of the ARP (Air Raid Precautions) shelter sign that can be found between Linthorpe Road and the Dundas arcade.
I never personally got around to asking for a look in their basement and ‘Past Times’ has since closed making that currently impossible.
Fortunately for us all, professional photographer Andrew Davies got these excellent shots and has kindly given me permission to share them here.
There was a report in the Gazette in 2007, but they never gained access to get any photos, as the report point out this original shelter was for 367 people and would have covered the basements of numerous shops, although after the war it seems logical that they would have been seperated again so the remaining area is not the full size.
Access was via a trapdoor behind the counter in the shop
At the time the space was not in use by the shop above.
On close inspection this sign mentions ‘Defence Regulation 23a’ this appears to tie in directly with an entry from Hansard from 23rd November 1939 which mentions that regulation being about the provision of air-raid shelters.
A few old boxes on a shelf, again no indication if they date from the basements use as a shelter or a later business.
Local Dorman Long steel in the fabric of the building.
A recently published book ‘Defence of the UK – Middlebrough’ suggests the rear building was a clothing factory owned by Dorman Stewart the rainwear makers. The book goes on to list numerous other converted basements used as shelters even larger than this one.
The ‘New Emporium’ and ‘Green Market’ each had room for 700, while the shelter under J. Newhouses shop another 400.
Images supplied courtesy of North East wedding photographer Andrew Davies , www.andrew-davies.com
Show on map The County Borough of Middlesbrough was extended in 1932 and the Middlesbrough Rural District of which Marton was part abolished.
Many thanks to the people who pointed this marker out to me after I mentioned the one on the other side Stewart Park
Show on map Near the upper lake is a plaque showing Gunnergate Hall, the plaque says originally built by Charles Leatham in 1857 although other sources say it dates from the 1820s
It was later owned by Ironmaster John Vaughan and after his death by Middlesbrough shipbuilder and mayor Sir Raylton Dixon. It was unoccupied after 1901 although brought back into use as an army base during both World Wars, then unfortuantely demolished in 1946
The outline a boat house is visible next to the lake with an ornamental waterfall to the lower lake.
Next to the lake is a bird hide constructed in 2007
Along with some more Steve Iredale carvings from felled trees
Show on map Stewart Park & Marton Heritage Group (in partnership with Middlesbrough Freemasons, Marton Community Councils, St. Cuthberts Church, and the residents of Marton ) are trying to obtain grants to raise funds to restore the graves of two of Middlesbrough’s most important founding fathers: H.W.F.Bolckow and John Vaughan, along with those graves of other notable people who shaped this area into what it has become today. Also restoring the churchyard into a site fitting the historical importance that it surely is. Bolckow & Vaughan were the two men who started the iron and steel industry in Middlesbrough, which brought the growth and prosperity to Middlesbrough and also the area of Teesside. They were both Mayors of Middlesbrough and Henry Bolckow became the town’s first M.P.
The Vaughan family vault.
The Bolckow family plot.
You can see in the pictures above, particularly the Vaughans’ vault, that they have been neglected and are in need of renovation.
The Stewart Park and Marton History Group was a small local history group that now, no longer meets . It had a website that was in the process of being updated with local history when the group disbanded and these are the pages that survived.
The lasting legacy of the group is the graves of Bolckow and Vaughan in Marton Churchyard, a project the group started and fund raised for and it eventually came to be, through the work of Middlesbrough Environment City.
Show on map A final sculpture on the Marton West Beck Trail which runs from Brass Castle Lane.
The horseman stands where the beck ends in Albert Park.
The silhouettes date from 2000, were designed by Possibility Saltburn and cut by Creative Cutting Services.
Show on map I spotted this at the edge of Stewart Park, I believe ‘CB’ stands for County Borough as Middlesbrough became one in 1889 and was extended in 1913, 1929 and 1932. This also co-incides with the Middlesbrough Rural District of which Marton was part being abolished in 1932.
Show on map The school designed by Richard Cromwell Carpenter dates from 1849 and was built with stone from Marton Lodge which was destoyed by fire in 1832.
The infants room was added in 1884 and was later used as a private residence before becoming a nursery school.
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The plaque lists the names of locals who volunteered as part of the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939, against Franco.
The plaque was re-dedicated in Middlebrough Town Hall in 2009 after being found in 1983 in a junk shop in Acton, West London. Some of their stories are in this BBC article
Thanks to David Walsh and John Buchan for bringing this to my attention and providing the photo.