Show on map The 690m long, 43 arch, Yarm Viaduct was built at a cost of £44,500 between 1848 and its official opening on 15th May 1852.
It contains over 7.5 millions brick and was built to extend the Leeds and Thirsk Railway from Northallerton to Stockton and Hartlepool when it became known as the Leeds Northern Railway.
The carved plaque records the Engineers Thomas Grainger and John Bourne.
Superintendent Joseph Dixon
Contractors Trowsdale, Jackson and Garbutt. 1849
Show on map Yarm Castle is actually a model in someones front garden, theres also a model of the Town Hall towards the rear.
It was built by David Doughty who lived in Commondale House in the 1880s and has individual windows originally lit by gas light. The Town Hall was added by his son Henry Doughty.
Show on map This plaque commemorates the 8 local men who served in what is now known as the Second Boer War between 1899–1902
1st P.W.O. 19th Yorkshire Regiment:
Corp. George Temple Todd
Pte. Thomas William Baldridge
Pte. Matthew Henry Dawson
Pte. Albert Vickers Wilson
Pte. Henry Thomas Fisher
Imperial Yeomanry:
Tpr. Edward Holt
Tpr. Hereward Sadler
also Pte. Owen O’Shaughnessey, 3rd P.W.O. Yorkshire Regt. who was killed at the Battle of Paardeberg, Feb. 18th, 1900.
Show on map This plaque was erected by the residents of Yarm in 1925 on the 100th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
It lists the residents of Yarm involved. Thomas Meynell (Chairman), Benjamin Flounders,(a quaker industrialist) Jeremiah Cairns (listed as Meynells steward and agent), Richard Miles (a quaker lead agent) and Thomas Miles.
A engraving of ‘Locomotion No.1’ is at the top.
Show on map The George and Dragon on Yarm High Street was the location of the promoters meeting of the Stockton and Darlington Railway on 12th February 1820.
Thomas Meynell of Yarm presided over the meeting in the Commercial Room
Meynell laid the first rail on 23rd May 1822 and went on to be chairman of the railway.
Show on map The Pavilion was a cinema that operated from 1914 to 1960. The carved name and the words “Drama” and “Comedy” can still be seen on the building.
In the 1970s it was the Rock Garden venue and more recently the Arena nightclub.
Show on map The Ship Inn is a Grade 2 listed building built in 1932
This fascinating photo shows a half-built Ship with the original still in place
The mock tudor timber framing originated from the battleships HMS Collingwood and HMS Southampton.
The 1882 HMS Collingwood was scrapped by Hughes-Bolckow on the Tyne in 1909.
The 1820 HMS Southampton was also broken up by Hughes-Bolckow at their new Battleship Wharf in Blyth around 1912.
Hughes-Bolckow also made furniture from ships, such as these chairs from the Collingwood.
Show on map This flush bracket OS Benchmark is on the White House in Marske, its been rendered over at some point in the past as the network has fallen out of use.
At this point S9928 you are very precisely 19.9522m above sea level.
Show on map I recently acquired a document from 1977 that was given to staff of the newly built Steel House.
Theres no longer a large canteen and kitchen and the branch of Barclays Bank is long gone, however the hessian walls are still here !
There were some teething troubles in late 1977 as only one lift was operational due to a strike by the national lift maintenance engineers.
A ‘modern’ office like this must have been quite something at the time as a series of open day was held in early 1978 with 1000+ friends and family visiting the building.
Show on map This tiled doorway can be found at 21A Milton Steet, some investigation on the ghostsignsuk page has uneathered its from Pearson Brothers who were a drapers.
Reports from the time suggest they went bankrupt in 1928.