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O GOOD A HAVE your route and the time you are expected to return to expected are you time the and route your - If not cycling with an adult, always inform your parent or guardian of guardian or parent your inform always adult, an with cycling not - If (Free from Middlesbrough Cycle Centre) Cycle Middlesbrough from (Free - Always carry a copy of the Middlesbrough Cycle Map Cycle Middlesbrough the of copy a carry - Always - Follow the Highway Code Highway the - Follow - Maintain a good road position at all times all at position road good a - Maintain - Use clear signaling and appropriate length of signalling of length appropriate and signaling clear - Use - Be observant at all times all at observant - Be - If needed wear high visibility clothing visibility high wear needed - If - Use a cycle helmet at all times and appropriate clothing appropriate and times all at helmet cycle a - Use their use their - Ensure gears are in full working order and that you are familiar with familiar are you that and order working full in are gears - Ensure - Ensure brakes are in full working order working full in are brakes - Ensure - Check to ensure the saddle is at the right height right the at is saddle the ensure to - Check Today, cycling is still seen as an excellent healthy means of transport and is also a great way to explore Middlesbrough’s Middlesbrough grew as a town because of the heritage. A circular cycling route that takes you from the Viking hardwork and tenacity of its labour force. However, settlement in Coulby Newham, to the original industrial and after many hours of toil by the workforce, respite was commercial heart of Middlesbrough does just that. It follows often spent in the 100 or so public houses that part of the National Cycle Route 65, which starts in Hull flourished in the town. Concern was expressed even and passes through the North York Moors. then that more suitable and healthier forms of relaxation were needed. Cricket was first played in Middlesbrough in 1844, but it was football that really captured the town’s imagination. Names such as Mannion, Hardwick, Clough and Souness have later become synonymous with the club which was inaugurated at a meeting held at the Talbot Hotel in 1876. The first swimming baths opened in Park Street in 1884, but due to demand a larger facility was opened on Gilkes Street in 1933 and was managed The Cycle Centre, managed by Middlesbrough Environment City, is an ideal place by Tom Hatfield whose son, Jack, was a world class to leave your bicycle if you wish to explore the town on foot. It has free secure swimmer. Public parks such as Albert and the much indoor cycle parking spaces, showers, changing rooms, lockers and toilets plus later Stewart Park offered opportunities for families to cycling information and guides. You can find it adjacent to the entrance of the bus get plenty of fresh air and exercise. Cycling doubled station on Newport Road. For more information visit www.menvcity.org.uk not only as a leisure activity, but also as a means of getting people to the steel works, docks and later chemical plants that drove Middlesbrough’s Nineteenth and Twentieth Century development. Timeline 1. Coulby Newham mentioned in the Domesday Book as “Colebi” and “Nieweham”. These were originally two separate settlements. Church, Farm... Industrial Giant 2. Lingfield Farm Countryside Centre was up until the 1990’s, a working, farm and can be seen on the old Tithe Maps. 3. St Mary s Roman Catholic Cathedral opened in 1988 to 1119 The Church at Middlesbrough recognised as a Priory by serve the Diocese of Middlesbrough (from the Tees to the Robert de Brus. Humber). Its predecessor had been in Sussex Street since 1876. 4. Fairy Dell was once the private garden of Gunnergate Hall. The 1537 Benedictine Priory closed by Henry VIII. mansion built in 1857 by a Quaker Banker, Charles Leatham, was later owned by John Vaughan, one of Middlesbrough’s first 1600’s Middlesbrough continues as a small farmstead. Iron Masters. 5. Newham Grange Leisure Farm had been owned by the 1801 Population 25 inhabitants. Hopper Family for over 400 years starting with Nathaniel in 1580. 1821 Edward Pease and a group of Quaker businessmen formed 6. Tollesby originally spelt “Tollesbi” was, like Ormesby, originally a the Stockton to Darlington Railroad Company. Viking settlement. 7. Albert Park donated by Henry Bolckow for the “purpose of healthful 1821 George Stephenson made Chief Engineer of the Company. recreation and exercise” in 1864 and named after a fellow Prussian the late Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg Gotha. It was 1825 Locomotion No. 1 travels from Shildon to Stockton, a world opened in 1868 by HRH Prince Arthur, son of the Prince first. Consort and Queen Victoria. 8. The Central Library opened in 1912 by means of a donation 1826 The first coal shipped from the Tees. given by Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish-American philanthropist. Part of the land for the building was also donated by Amos 1829 The farmstead at Middlesbrough sold to a group of Hinton, a grocer and politician. Darlington Quaker business men led by Joseph Pease, the 9. The Town Hall opened in 1889 to replace the original one. It was “Father of Middlesbrough”. here that the first building, built in 1846, accommodated both a town hall and covered market place. 1829 Richard Otley commissioned to design a new town to house 10. Exchange Square became the financial centre of Middlesbrough a maximum of 5,000 people. in the 1860’s. The Royal Exchange, built in 1868, for a time stood at the center of the world’s iron and steel economy. Sadly 1830 The first house built in the “new town” of Middlesbrough it was demolished in 1985. 11. The Railway Station (April). opened in 1877. Designed by a famous architect, William Peachey, it was a showcase for the greatness 1830 “Port Darlington” opened as a new coal staithes with of Middlesbrough. Sadly in 1942 it was hit by German bombs William Fallows, another “Father Of Middlesbrough”, as and the glass roof was almost totally destroyed. 12. Cleveland Buildings Master (December). were Henry Bolckow and John Vaughan’s first homes and offices in Middlesbrough, built in 1840. 13. The former Cleveland Club 1830 The “Sunnniside” locomotion transported the first coal along was originally a bank and is now the new Middlesbrough branch railway line (December). considered one of Middlesbrough’s finest old buildings. 14. The Transporter Bridge opened in 1911. It symbolizes the industrial might and ingenuity of Teesside in the late nineteenth 1831 William Fallows organises the first shipment of coal from and early twentieth century. Middlesbrough. 15. The Dorman Museum opened in 1904, it was donated by Sir Arthur Dorman, one of Middlesbrough’s prominent steel 1834 Middlesbrough Pottery founded in Commercial Street. It was, producers. at the time, the biggest employer. 16. Acklam Hall built between 1680-83 by Sir William Hustler, a wealthy draper and altered in 1845 to a Victorian gothic style 1840 Coal exports from the Tees reaches 1.5 million tons a year. by Thomas Hustler. He himself was involved in the early development of Middlesbrough but resisted attempts to allow his 1841 Bolckow and Vaughan opened their first iron works. land in Linthorpe and Acklam to be encroached upon by this ever-expanding industrial town. 1842 Middlesbrough Dock opened. 17. The Avenue of Trees. An avenue of lime trees planted at the end of the 17th Century originally stretched all the way up to Low 1850 Iron ore discovered in the Cleveland Hills by John Vaughan Lane. 18 .Hemlington Lake was only created in the early 1970`s. 1853 Iron works producing 64,000 tons per year. Hemlington itself dates back to Saxon times, though a Neolithic axe found in the nearby village of Stainton has been found 1853 Henry Bolckow becomes Middlesbrough`s first mayor. dating as far back as 3,000 BC. 1855 John Vaughan becomes Mayor Of Middlesbrough. For further information on Lingfield Farm Countryside Centre, Newham Grange Leisure Farm, Albert Park, the Town Hall, 1859 William Fallows made Mayor of Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge and Central Library please go to www.middlesbrough.gov.uk 1859 Boring begins at Bolckow and Vaughan’s Saltworks on Vulcan Street 1868 Bolckow becomes Middlesbrough’s first MP. 1875 Dorman Long iron works founded. 1875 Bolckow and Vaughan open the first Bessemer Steel Plant. 1881 4 Bessemer converters turning out 3,000 tons of steel per week. 1901 Population 91,302 inhabitants. Please use in conjunction with Middlesbrough Cycle Map (free from the Cycle Centre).