The Transporter Bridge. The ‘car’ can carry up to 600 passengers or 9 vehicles and takes 2 ½ minutes to cross.

The River Tees

Source of the Tees in the Eastern Pennines.

Upper course of Tees at the top of Teesdale.

High Force near Middleton in Teesdale.

The River TeesThe Tees at Branard Castle.

The Tees at Yarm.

The River TeesTees Barrage at Stockton used to control tidal waters.

Newport Bridge Middlesbrough built by Dorman Long.

The River TeesTemenos Sculpture, part of regeneration project.

Industry where the River Tees joins the North Sea.

The Town Through TimeThe Town of Middlesbrough is less than 2oo

years old but people have lived in the area for more than 8000 years!

Archaeologists have found evidence of people using canoes on the river 3000 years ago.

The Town Through TimeMany areas of Middlesbrough such as Aklam,

Marton, Aryesome, Linthorpe and Nunthorpe where mentioned in the Doomsday book of 1086 as farming settlements.

The names of these places were often a description of there position e.g.

Marton – settlement in marshy groundAryesome – house near the riverNunthorpe – settlement of the nuns

Growing TownThe rapid growth of Middlesbrough in

Victorian times was founded first on its iron industry and then on the production of steel.

Growing Town

Developing TownIn the 1800s the chemical industry in

Middlesbrough developed.During the first World War munitions were

produced in the area.

Developing Town

Middlesbrough NowICI Corus SteelShopsSchoolsUniversityMuseumsHospitalsFootballCourtsLibrary

So what will we

see?