1883 Stockton & Middlesbrough Corporations Water Board, Stockton

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This building on Dovecot Street was the offices of the Stockton & Middlesbrough Corporations Water Board.
1883 Stockton & Middlesbrough Water Board

The organisation became the Tees Valley Water Board around 1899 – 19001883 Stockton & Middlesbrough Water Board

The 1883 date stone and name of the original company are still visible.

1883 Stockton & Middlesbrough Water Board

It’s been pointed out to me that this was also the building that Radio Tees was based in between 1975 and 1992.

1897 Stockton Almshouses

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Stockton Almshouses were built around 1897 with the foundation being laid by Mayor Thomas Walton on 26th October 1896.
1897 Stockton Almshouse, Stockton-on-Tees
Theres an inscription somewhere that I missed which reads :-
“Stockton Almshouses
Situation the east side of the High Street, rebuilt 1816 with a sum of money
bequeathed for that purpose by George Brown Esq, were sold and taken down AD 1896.
These buildings were erected with part of the purchasers money AD 1897”
1897 Stockton Almshouse, Stockton-on-Tees
The building is currently shuttered up and I cannot find any information on what the future holds for it, although it is a Grade II listed building.
1897 Stockton Almshouse, Stockton-on-Tees
Below is the Evening Gazette report of the 1896 ceremony.
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Bute Street, Stockton

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Bute Street in Stockton was built to house workers in the late 1800s
Bute Street, Stockton
Due to single private ownership the residents were not allowed to modernise the properties, so theres no pebbledash, PVC windows. As such most of the houses are pretty much as they looked when originally built.
Bute Street, Stockton
The street still has its old enamel sign, old style lamps and cobbles.Bute Street, Stockton

Erimus War Memorial

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Erimus was an area of three streets (Erimus Terrace, Pioneer Street and Stainton Street) and a hotel that once stood mid-way between Thornaby and Middlesbrough, it was built to house the workers of the Erimus Ironworks. ehotelErimus

The whole area was demolished in 1963 to make way for developments on the railway and is now near the road junction for Teesside Park on the A66.
Thornaby, Erimus Terrace War Memorial
A war memorial was erected in 1920 at Erimus for the six local men who died in WW1.
Private J R Donnison, 2nd Yorkshire Regt.
Stoker A Wright, H M S Carribean
Stoker J R Sharp, H M S Queen Mary
Private J G Wales, 9th Yorkshire Regt.
Private T Munroe, DLI
Private W Munroe, DLI

The memorial moved to a chapel in Thornaby in 1959 and was moved to it’s current location in the cemetery in 22/7//2006 where it was unveiled by Mayor Pat Large and Ken Craggs.