Ironopolis, ironmasters and transport: Middlesbrough in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
| Dates: | 29 September 2015 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 13:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Faculty of Life Sciences |
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| Speaker: | Tosh Warwick |
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It is our pleasure to announce the details for the next CHSTM lunchtime seminar on Tuesday 29th September from 1-2pm in Room 2.57 Simon Building. All are welcome.
Tosh Warwick (University of Huddersfield/Middlesbrough Council)
Ironopolis, ironmasters and transport: Middlesbrough in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Middlesbrough was the first town in the world to owe it’s existence to the development of the railways. Arising from the extension of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, Middlesbrough was initially established as a coal export town before its rapid expansion as the Victorian ‘boom town’. At the heart of Middlesbrough’s evolution were the town’s mid-Victorian ironmasters who as well as providing employment were also actively engaged in early municipal, political and economic life.
It has been contended that as a result of these industrial elites enjoying prosperity, epitomised in apparent gentrification in moving away from the town and occupying country houses on the peripheries, these and later industrialists withdrew from urban engagement.
This paper will contest that despite no longer living in the town, Middlesbrough’s later steel magnates remained involved in its day-to-day life facilitated by railway links to the town. Furthermore, it will be shown that they were central to developing new transport links in the form of the area’s landmark Tees Transporter Bridge.
Speaker
Tosh Warwick
Organisation: Middlesbrough Council
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2.57
Simon Building
Manchester
