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unusual facts about Thornaby-on-Tees


Holly Hagan

Holly Hagan (born 7 July 1992) is an English television personality and aspiring singer from Thornaby-on-Tees.


Aislaby

Aislaby, County Durham, in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees and ceremonial county of County Durham

Brian B. Thompson

Brian co-created the regional soap Quayside (Director Tom Hopper) for Tyne Tees TV and worked on the first series of Revelations for Granada (Producer, Tony Wood).

Cauldron Falls

Cauldron Snout, waterfall on the upper reaches of the River Tees, County Durham/Cumbria, England

Clandestine Industries

Since its initial inception, Clandestine Industries has created many different types of clothing, focusing on producing limited-edition tees, hoodies, and accessories (establishing the line's Batheart logo), while working with companies and brands such as DKNY Jeans, Wet Seal and Nordstrom.

Clarence Railway

But after Tennant died in 1839, the running of the HD&RCo was taken over by Stockton on Tees solicitor, Ralph Ward Jackson.

Cliffe, Richmondshire

The Grade II listed George Hotel stands near the road-bridge which crosses the Tees coming from Piercebridge, and is said to be the home of My Grandfather's Clock which "stopped short never to go again when the old man died".

Cross Fell

The three adjoining fells form an escarpment that rises steeply above the Eden Valley on its south western side and drops off more gently on its north eastern side towards the South Tyne and Tees Valleys.

Dalton Gates

The placename Dalton means settlement in the dale and it comes from the nearby Dalton-on-Tees and Gates refers to the gates that were used on the railway level crossing.

David Clelland

He also recorded "The Socialist ABC" on the CD "From Tees to Tyne", saying "I've been singing this song as a party piece for years, but I was surprised and delighted when the people from The Northumbria Anthology asked me to record it".

Edward Forbes Walker

Hackworth, Stockton-on-Tees and in 1853 moved again, this time to the works of Messrs. Thomas Richardson and Son, Hartlepool.

Flounders' Folly

There are also no known records of his having ships or interests in Liverpool or Bristol, as he was a man hailing from the north-east of England, near Stockton-on-Tees.

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.

Gainford, County Durham

Gainford on Tees is a village on the north bank of the River Tees in County Durham, England.

Harold Stephenson

Stephenson was born (as William Harold Stephenson) in Haverton Hill, Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham and played Minor Counties cricket for Durham in 1947, succeeding Dick Spooner, who had been recruited by Warwickshire, as wicketkeeper.

Harry Wrightson

Wrightson was born in 1874, the son of the Reverend W.G. Wrightson, of Hurworth-on-Tees.

History of rail transport in Great Britain to 1830

In 1821 an Act of Parliament was approved for a tramway between Stockton and Darlington.

HM Prison Holme House

HM Prison Holme House is a Category B men's prison, located in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England.

Hurworth Place

It lies south of Darlington on the northern bank of the River Tees, opposite the village of Croft-on-Tees in North Yorkshire to which it is linked by Croft Bridge, a Grade I listed structure dating from the 14th century, which marks the county boundary.

James Murray Dobson

He had a large office of his own in which he prepared the designs for the Stockton bridge for Charles Neate and Harrison Hayter, and designs of the ironwork of the lines and stations of the London underground District Railway extension to Whitechapel for Sir John Hawkshaw.

Len Arran

Len Arran (born Leonard Arran, 7 June 1961, Thornaby-on-Tees, England) is an English composer of film scores, and songwriter for Skunk Anansie and solo artist Deborah Dyer (Skin).

Liberty of Durham

The liberty was known variously as the "Liberty of Durham", "Liberty of St Cuthbert's Land" "The lands of St. Cuthbert between Tyne and Tees" or "The Liberty of Haliwerfolc".

Matt Tees

He then joined Grimsby Town, Charlton Athletic, Luton Town and back to Grimsby Town, during his second spell at Grimsby, Tees was part of the 1971–72 team that won the Division Four title.

Mount Brighton

Bruce Matthews designed the par 71 course with four sets of tees ranging in yardage from 6,655 to 4,826.

NER Class P3

There then followed restoration to full working order, initially at Tyne Dock where the locomotive was stored after withdrawal, then professionally at the then still functioning National Coal Board workshops at Philadelphia, Tyne and Wear, and then at Thornaby Depot.

Oleg Gorobiy

In 2004 he joined the national Dragon boat squad as a helmsman, winning four gold medals at the 2004 European championships at Stockton-on-Tees, England.

Pam Royle

On 25 February 2009, ITV Tyne Tees and ITV Border merged news output whilst the respective programme titles were retained, Royle now presents both ITV News Tyne Tees and Lookaround.

Preston Park, Stockton-on-Tees

The land was originally a private residence with large grounds but has since become the property of Stockton Borough Council after being purchased from Sir Robert Ropner.

Preston-on-Tees

There is also a Church of England parish church dedicated to All Saints, which was founded in the early 1900s as a church plant into Preston-on-Tees from the Church of St Thomas, Stockton.

Ray Mutimer

From December 2007 to February 2008, Ray exhibited Postman Pat illustrations at Preston Hall Museum, Stockton-on-Tees to raise funds for the Butterwick Hospice Extension Appeal.

Rich Beem

Until this win, Beem was best known for the book Bud, Sweat and Tees: A Walk on the Wild Side of the PGA Tour by Alan Shipnuck, which profiled his rookie year on the PGA Tour and the often wild lifestyle of him and his caddy, Steve Duplantis.

River Tees

Between 2003 and 2011 four of these American naval vessels and the 32,000-tonne former French aircraft carrier Clemenceau were decommissioned on the south bank of the Tees.

Robert Whitworth

His next projects were farther afield, as he went to Ireland to assess proposals for the Lagan Canal, and then to County Durham to produce plans and reports for a proposed canal to link Winston to Stockton-on-Tees.

Sir David Dale, 1st Baronet

In 1866 he embarked on extensive shipbuilding enterprises in co-operation with the firms of Richardson, Denton, and Duck of Stockton, Denton and Grey of Hartlepool, and Thomas Richardson & Sons of Hartlepool, who combined together with a view to amalgamation.

Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy

Tyne Tees Television produced a TV dramatisation of the story in 1982, The World Cup: A Captain's Tale

Snorg Tees

Snorg Tees is an American company based in the US state of Georgia, specialising in T-shirt designs that reference popular culture or make humorous assertions about the wearer.

Sockburn

The ancient parish included the townships of Sockburn in County Durham, and Girsby and Over Dinsdale, both on the opposite bank of the River Tees in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

As Sockburn was the most southerly point in the Durham diocese, the sword was ceremonially presented by the Lord of the Manor to each new Bishop of Durham when he entered his diocese for the first time at the local ford or the nearby Croft-on-Tees bridge.

Sockburn Worm

Each year the newly consecrated Bishop-Prince of Durham, while entering the Bishopric for the first time at the local Ford or over the bridge over the River Tees at Croft-on-Tees was presented with the falchion that John Conyers used on the worm.

South Gare Lighthouse

There already were two navigation light towers built in 1829 and operating in Durham county at Seaton Carew and another at Hartlepool to guide ships clear of Coatham Rocks off Redcar and then onto the Fairway Buoy outside the bar of the river Tees.

Stanwick St John

Another contemporary walled ditch called Scots Dyke running from Stanwick as far south as the river Swale at Richmond (and possibly also north over the Tees at Gainford) may have formed part of a general defensive mechanism for the hill peoples in the area.

Tees Barrage

Some angling groups argue that the progress of migratory fish is delayed below the barrier as fish have difficulty finding the very narrow entrance to the fish pass and that excessive numbers of foraging seals are taking advantage of this delay and are predating these fish and thus damaging the recovery of salmonids on the Tees.

Tees Valley Giants

The Tees Valley Giants was intended as a £15 million series of five art installations by sculptor Anish Kapoor and structural designer Cecil Balmond.

Tees-Exe line

Similar lines are commonly drawn, for similar purposes, between the Severn Estuary and the Wash, and between the Severn and the mouth of the River Trent.

Trident Television

In 1992, Yorkshire and Tyne Tees merged again, to create Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television.

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.

Winterton Hospital

When services were moved to North Tees General Hospital in Stockton in the 1960s the site became a Community hospital providing services such as X-rays and respite care.


see also

Middlesbrough Futsal Club

The club was founded in 2007 and play their home matches in Thornaby-on-Tees: a town in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees.