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6 unusual facts about Middlesbrough


Bogus colleges in the United Kingdom

An example of a bogus college run as a scam is the Middlesbrough-based National Distance Learning College, which operated between 1999 and 2001 and offered distance learning courses in computing and business related subjects which it claimed were accredited by official qualification bodies such as BTEC and City & Guilds.

Elizabeth Carling

Elizabeth Carling MA (born 20 October 1967 in Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire) is an English actress and singer best known for her performances in Boon, Goodnight Sweetheart, Barbara, and Casualty.

Futsal in England

The venues for the Northern Conference in 2010/11 are the Hillsborough Leisure Centre in Sheffield, the Thornaby Pavilion in Middlesbrough, the Bonus Arena in Hull, the National Cycling Centre in Manchester, @FUTSAL Arena, Leeds and the Greenbank Sports Academy in Liverpool.

Kolbotn

Striker Rebecca Angus from Middlesbrough, England also played four seasons for Kolbotn in 2007-10.

PESL Futsal Cup

PESL 5-a-side was founded by Damon Shaw and Craig Brown in February 2003, whilst on a train journey from York to Middlesbrough.

Thomas Richardson

Thomas Richardson (Middlesbrough) (1771–1853), investor and director of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and founder of Middlesbrough.


1957–58 Stoke City F.C. season

Stoke made in-roads in the FA Cup overcoming Aston Villa in a 2nd replay and then Middlesbrough to reach the fifth round where they came up against a powerful Bolton Wanderers side who with the help of Nat Lofthouse beat Stoke 3–1 as they went on to lift the cup.

1994–95 Middlesbrough F.C. season

Middlesbrough were promoted to the top flight of English football after a two-year exile by winning the Division One title under new player-manager Bryan Robson.

2001–02 FA Cup

Gianluca Festa, who had been on the losing side for Middlesbrough in both the FA Cup and League Cup finals five years earlier, endured further misfortune when he scored an own goal that ended his side's hopes of FA Cup glory and handed the initiative to Arsenal.

2003–04 Football League Cup

The winners were Middlesbrough who beat Bolton Wanderers in the final 2-1 and collected their first major piece of silverware in their history and as a result of their victory qualified for European football for the first time.

Middlesbrough won the match 2-1 and in doing so collected their first major piece of silverware in their history and qualified for the European football in the UEFA Cup for the first time.

2003–04 Middlesbrough F.C. season

The first leg went Middlesbrough's way with them taking a 1-0 lead thanks to a Juninho goal.

Andy Woodman

He is a close friend of ex-England international and ex-Middlesbrough manager Gareth Southgate, with whom he has written a book about life in the youth ranks of Crystal Palace, their first club.

Anna Raeburn

She went to the all-girls Kirby Grammar School in Linthorpe, Middlesbrough.

Augustine Harris

On 22 June 2006, the formal celebration of this event was held in the Liverpool's Metropolitan Cathedral where Bishop Harris was joined by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, as well as, the Papal Nuncio, and twenty bishops, along with priests and lay people from the Liverpool and Middlesbrough dioceses.

Carolyn Jess-Cooke

Jess-Cooke's poetry has also appeared in Poetry Review, Poetry London, Poetry New Zealand, Poetry Ireland Review, The Wolf, Magma, Poetry Wales, The Lonely Poets' Guide to Belfast, Black Mountain Review, Ambit, Tower Poetry, The SHOp, and in a ribbon of steel that runs for half a mile throughout a medical facility in Middlesbrough.

Chris Riggott

Whilst at Derby he was coached by future England manager Steve McClaren and Middlesbrough coaches Steve Round and Bill Beswick.

Clayton Blackmore

He joined Middlesbrough for the 1994–95 season, linking up with newly appointed player-manager and former team mate Bryan Robson.

Craig Hignett

He has recently starred in Sky1's Premier League All Stars, in which he helped Middlesbrough beat Newcastle, and represented England in the 2009 Home Nations Masters Cup despite having not won a full international cap.

Dave Parnaby

Now in charge of developing the youth academy at Middlesbrough, he led his youngsters to the FA Youth Cup Final in 2003, where they finished runners-up to Manchester United.

Deeping Rangers F.C.

Their most notable alumni include Malcolm Christie (who moved to Derby County and then Middlesbrough) and Ben Wright (who later played for Viking Stavanger in the UEFA Cup and was also on the books of football league clubs Lincoln City).

Doriva

On 29 February 2004 Doriva started as Middlesbrough won their first major trophy, the 2004 Football League Cup Final, with a 2-1 win over Bolton Wanderers in the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

Fire and Steel Festival

Teesside Steelworks, which stretches from Redcar, where the largest blast furnace in Europe is located, to east Middlesbrough area are Europe’s largest steelworks producing steel for the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Tyne Bridge, Auckland Harbour Bridge and many more.

Football League North and South

An example of this is that in the 1942 Football League North Leeds United played Middlesbrough, Gateshead, Newcastle United, Doncaster Rovers, Sunderland, Bradford Park Avenue, York City, Halifax Town and Huddersfield Town, which they played Home and Away in succession.

Futera

Futera held Official Trading Card Licences in the '90s/early 2000s for UK Premier League clubs Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Leeds, Aston Villa, West Ham and Scottish Premier League club Celtic plus Newcastle, Derby County, Middlesbrough and Manchester City.

George Houghton

While in America he also travelled to Florida to talk to an unnamed man who he said almost runs football over there and he has also been talking to former Middlesbrough and England now FC Twente manager Steve McClaren as well to set up links with David Beckham to try to get him to become an ambassador for the club.

On 20 May, it was announced that he was returning to Darlington as chairman and has appointed former Middlesbrough boss Colin Todd as manager.

Graham Ibbeson

He has created bronze sculptures in towns and cities across Britain including Leeds, Cardiff, Dover, Barnsley, Doncaster, Northampton, Chesterfield, Middlesbrough, Perth, Otley and Rugby.

Harry Newbould

In 1906 financial pressures led Derby's directors to sell England international Steve Bloomer to Middlesbrough.

Herbert McCabe

Herbert McCabe (1926–2001) was an English-born Irish Dominican priest, theologian and philosopher, who was born in Middlesbrough in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

James Smurthwaite

Born in North Ormesby, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England, Smurthwaite was a fast medium swing bowler, who could also bowl medium quick off breaks.

Jamie Pollock

As well as being a football manager, he is co-owner of a Glass and Glazing company based in Middlesbrough near the Transporter Bridge called Polton Glass.

John Robson

John "Jack" Robson (1860 – 1922), English full-time secretary manager of football clubs, including Middlesbrough and Manchester United

Leyland Panther Cub

D-registration Panther Cubs also went to BET-group fleet Thomas Brothers of Port Talbot, South Wales who took three (HTG180-2D) with similar Strachan bus bodies but with single door and 47 seats, to Stockton and to Middlesbrough Corporation who took the only two with Northern Counties B45F bodies.

Memorial Bridge, Bangkok

Construction of the bridge was started on 3 December 1929 by Dorman Long, Middlesbrough, England.

Michael Fenton

Micky Fenton (1913–2003), England international footballer for Middlesbrough

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service

The ceremonial county of North Yorkshire also includes the boroughs of Stockton-on-Tees (south of the river), Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland however these are covered by the Cleveland Fire Brigade.

Outwood Academy Acklam

Outwood Academy Acklam (formerly Oakfields Community College) is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in the Acklam area of Middlesbrough, England.

Rummana Hussain

Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Inside Out: Contemporary Women Artists of India, Middlesbrough, UK

Sir Arthur Pease, 1st Baronet

Pease eventually also became chairman of Middlesbrough Estate Ltd, North-Eastern Improved Dwellings Company, William Whitwell & Co, and the Durham & North Yorkshire Public House Trust, and a director of the North Eastern Railway Company/London and North Eastern Railway Company, Lloyds Bank, Horden Collieries Ltd, the Forth Bridge Railway Company, the National Benzole Company, and a number of others.

Stuart Boam

He was immediately placed in Boro's starting lineup, and was named team captain ahead of the 1973–74 season, when Middlesbrough won the Second Division title.

Tim Devlin

Tim Devlin, while a Tory MP, helped arrange a meeting in which Customs was ordered to drop charges against Middlesbrough drug trafficker Brian Charrington on drug-smuggling changes on 28 January 1993.

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

TUSC stood candidates in the 2012 by-elections for Manchester Central (garnering 1.3%), Middlesbrough (1.6%) and Rotherham (1.3%).

TSS Dover

Built in 1965 as a roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ferry, she spent much of her later life as a one of the permanently moored Tuxedo floating nightclubs before being stored out of use, latterly on the River Tees in Middlesbrough.

Unity Academy

Unity City Academy, a secondary school in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England

Unity City Academy

Unity City Academy is a city academy in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England which opened in 2003, sponsored by support services company Amey plc.

Walter Flight

The later papers were chiefly upon meteorites, dealing in detail with the recorded circumstances of their fall, and with their mineralogical and chemical constituents; several, written in conjunction with Professor Story-Maskelyne, give accounts, published in the 'Philosophical Transactions,' of the meteorites which fell at Rowton in Shropshire, at Middlesbrough, England, and at Cranbourne, Australia.

West Bromwich Town Hall

The Town Hall, situated in the centre of High Street, was built between 1874 and 1875 in brick and stone to an Italian Gothic design of the architects Alexander & Henman of Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesbrough and the building contractors were Trow & Sons of Wednesbury.


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