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The company was founded by Amos Hinton in Middlesbrough in 1871, [1] when he bought out John Birks' shop in South Street. [2] By 1919, the business had expanded such that it had seven stores on Teesside. [2] It went on to buy Winterschladen, a chain of off licences. [2]
The Borough of Middlesbrough is a district in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is part of the Tees Valley region, along with the boroughs of Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar and Cleveland, Hartlepool and Darlington. The district covers the town of Middlesbrough, Nunthorpe civil parish and Stainton and Thornton civil parish.
The Cleveland Centre, is a shopping centre in the town of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. It is owned by Middlesbrough Council, previous Waypoint New Frontier until 2022. [1] It was renamed The Mall (after its previous owner The Mall Fund) in 2011 but reverted to the original name the following year. [2]
Middlesbrough was the first major British town and industrial target to be bombed during the Second World War. The steel-making capacity and railways for carrying steel products were obvious targets. The Luftwaffe first bombed the town on 25 May 1940, when a lone bomber dropped 13 bombs between South Bank Road and the South Steel plant. [21]
On 27 February 2023, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities confirmed the development corporation would go ahead despite not receiving backing from Middlesbrough Council. The corporation was established by statutory instrument 2023/103. [8] Middlesbrough MP Andy McDonald called it a
The Gazette Building in Middlesbrough, England. TeessideLive is a regional news website serving the Teesside area of England.The website feeds The Gazette daily newspaper and the Sunday Sun, England’s best-selling regional Sunday newspaper. [2]
Grove Hill is an area of the Middlesbrough's Longlands and Beechwood ward in the Borough of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. It is a historic part of the North Riding of Yorkshire . [ 1 ] The area's main shopping area is off Marton Road at the junction with Marton Burn Road and Belle Vue.
The town of Middlesbrough had been incorporated as a municipal borough in 1853. [6] When elected county councils were established in 1889 it was considered large enough to provide its own county-level services, and so it was made a county borough, independent from the new North Riding County Council, whilst remaining part of the North Riding of Yorkshire for ceremonial purposes.