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The Middlesbrough and Cleveland Iron Trade Jubilee: general view, Middlesbrough, N. Yorkshire, 1881. Creator: Unknown.

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The Middlesbrough and Cleveland Iron Trade Jubilee: general view, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, 1881. 'Mr. W. Fallows; the Mayor of Middlesbrough...The Jubilee, [50th anniversary], of the flourishing town of Middlesbrough-on-Tees, seat of the great Cleveland iron trade of N. Yorkshire, was celebrated last Thursday...The growth of Middlesbrough is a remarkable feature of recent social history. In less than the lifetime of many men, pasture land and corn-fields have given place to numerous ironworks, thousands of houses and shops, and miles of streets...Mr. William Fallows, J.P. [is] a hale and hearty old man of eighty-three years, who has taken an active part in almost every public movement in the town...the great trade which has sprung up on either side of the Tees has led to vast improvements being effected. The river has been deepened, training walls have been erected, and millions of tons of slag - ashes from the blast-furnaces - have been tipped in the construction of two breakwaters. At an expenditure of £700,000, the Tees has been converted into a good commercial river, down which...steamers float conveying Cleveland iron and steel to all parts of the world...The Mayor is Mr. Charles Willman, C.E., an ironworks valuer and auctioneer'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM25A43_359

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Droits gérés

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28,5Mo (1,9Mo) / 45,3cm x 15,8cm / 5351 x 1863 (300dpi)

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