Middlesbrough Then & Now Part Thirteen

This is the 13th instalment in my series of Then & Now video slideshows which
I hope will show the changes in our area over the decades. Hopefully these videos will bring back memories to older viewers whilst also showing younger viewers what Middlesbrough used to look like in their parents, grandparents and great grandparents eras.
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[@malcolmryman4552]

I departed the Boro in 1972 to try to make fame and fortune at Brum university. I crossed the Rubicon and realised that there was a great new world outside the Boro. I am disgusted at the way the controlling council have rendered the place into an ever changing building site of " urban renewal" leaving what were closely knit communities left with wind swept acres of demolition sites devoid of character and appeal. How can buildings of thirty to forty years old be consigned to the scrap heap (unless they were the high rise towers) Anyone with sense now lives in outlining areas, the influx of migrants has totally bastardised the place ! Good luck to you all and God (ours) help you!

[@alfredhannaford7908]

The Now and Then video was excellent.

[@BigMack1959]

Thank you Alfred.

[@garrymillard7786]

Steve your videos are a true delight. I left Middlesbrough in the 1980's never to return and take great joy from scrutinising your pictures and searhing my memory for any connection I have with them. Bringing back recollections of a happy time. Well done and thank you.

[@BigMack1959]

Thanks Garry you're very kind to say that. I intend to try and post a new video every couple of months so hopefully you'll have more scrutinising to do.

[@sheilanesbitt1953]

So good!

[@BigMack1959]

Thank you Sheila.

[@alfredhannaford7908]

I believe that the Ladle Hotel was, originally, the Brackehoe Hotel but changed its name to Ladle when Brackenhoe school opened on Prissick Base.

[@BigMack1959]

I think you are right Alfred.

[@arkitektur360]

It was originally a private house belonging to the Bolckow family, who also had 'Marton Hall acroos the road in what is now Stewart Park

[@doravernon1511]

@@arkitektur360 why was Marton Hall demolished and who were the Bolckow family?
I will answer my own question: Henry William Ferdinand Bolckow, born 1806 in Germany. He died childless and left his estate to a nephew. He erected a gritstone urn in memorial of Captain James Cook who was reputed to have been born not far from Marton Hall, however, I thought Cook was born near Whitby? Bolckow used to live in Cleveland Street, Middlesbrough. Sometime Mayor of Middlesbrough, he was a co-owner of the Bolckow & Vaughan Ironworks, having come to Newcastle at the behest of an acquaintance who suggested he might do well as a corn merchant in England. He did pretty well as everything he touched turned to gold, the partnership rapidly owned iron/coal & limestone mines. He died in 1878, age 71. A statue was erected outside the Royal Exchange Building in his memory ten years after his death.

[@unknownbritishguy.5538]

Thank you ever so much Stephen I’m always excited when I get notification you’ve Just uploaded...beautiful video I Just hope there Is more to come.

[@BigMack1959]

Thank you Jameel, there will be more to come but can't say when because I don't know when I'll have the free time to make more.

[@theborobuzzard9533]

Brilliant Stephen 👍🏻..I always think who’s heinous idea was it to get rid of the Grand Opera House, a glorious and beautiful looking building

[@BigMack1959]

Thank you. the Grand Opera House / Gaumont in it's heyday was a beautiful but was a privately owned building left standing in disrepair for many years and by the time of it's demolition was unsafe. Perhaps the council should have stepped in before it was too far gone and saved it but didn't just like another impressive building The Exchange also privately owned and left to rot.

[@doravernon1511]

@@BigMack1959 why would people who own a beautiful building leave it to rack & ruin? It does not make sense.

[@BigMack1959]

@@doravernon1511 We have had many buildings left standing for years becoming derelict due to neglect. Perhaps the land they stood on was worth more than the building and by waiting long enough the land price would increase.

[@doravernon1511]

@@BigMack1959 good call.

[@RMPOWLS]

Very good but its zetland rd not street

[@unknownbritishguy.5538]

RMPOWLS Stop complaining

[@BigMack1959]

Thank you Roy, yes my mistake you're right.

[@doravernon1511]

If anyone wonders what the Zetland connection is, they were/are the Earls of Zetland, so-named as they own land in the Orknies, Shetland and are landowners in this area, also around Redcar.