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Originally Royal Air Force (RAF) station Middleton St George, the aerodrome became Tees-Side Airport in 1964, Teesside International Airport in 1987, and Durham Tees Valley Airport in 2004 before reverting to Teesside International Airport in 2019 following a poll indicating 93% of locals preferred the name, with the change occurring on 25 July ...
The white paper that led to the Local Government Act 1972 proposed as "area 2" a metropolitan county including Newcastle and Sunderland, extending as far south down the coast as Seaham and Easington, and bordering "area 4" (which would become Tees Valley). The Bill as presented in November 1971 pruned back the southern edge of the area, and ...
The Borough of Stockton-on-Tees is a unitary authority area in England with borough status in County Durham and North Yorkshire.In 2021, it had a population of 196,600. [5] Its main settlement and namesake of the borough is Stockton-on-Tees, which lies on the north bank of the River Tees, along with the towns of Billingham and Norton-on-Tees, in County Durham.
The Royal Engineers field companies were raised by the Mayor and Town of Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham, and joined on 7 October 1915. The divisional signal company was recruited at Norbury, South London, by the British Empire Committee. [5] [6] [12] [13] 225th (Stockton on Tees) Field Company; 227th (Stockton on Tees) Field Company; 234th ...
A residual civil parish of Norton, covering just the more rural western part of the old parish, continued to exist until 1 April 1968 when it was abolished and absorbed into the County Borough of Teesside along with Stockton and other areas. [6] In 1961 the parish had a population of 416. [7] It is now in the unparished area of Stockton-on-Tees.
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Stockton-on-Tees is a market town in County Durham, England, with a population of 84,815 at the 2021 UK census. [1] It gives its name to and is the largest settlement in the wider Borough of Stockton-on-Tees. It is part of Teesside and the Tees Valley, on the northern bank of the River Tees.
The Tuxedo Princess moored beneath the Tyne Bridge, September 2005. The Glasshouse is the building in the background.. The Tuxedo Princess (ex-TSS Caledonian Princess) and Tuxedo Royale (ex-TSS Dover) were two former car ferries used as permanently moored floating nightclubs in the United Kingdom from the 1980s to the 2000s.