Show on map Externally the building is pretty much unchanged since this 1935 photo.
The building was recently an Indian restaurant but is currently being redeveloped by Fracture Theatre who also hope to show films there again.
Show on map Billingham Hall was a Victorian Villa built around 1870 and demolished in 1935.
The Hall itself is now under Connifer Crescent, but the gates and lodge reamain.
Show on map This Shap Granite cross was erected at a cost of £44 in 1893, the idea of Rev Phillip Rudd. It was made by Bowrons of Stockton.
The Prince of Wales, later to become Edward VII was supposed to unveil the cross, but his carriage passed without stopping.
Unfortunately little remains of the original buildings around the green which has since been redeveloped.
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The plaque lists the names of locals who volunteered as part of the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939, against Franco.
The plaque was re-dedicated in Middlebrough Town Hall in 2009 after being found in 1983 in a junk shop in Acton, West London. Some of their stories are in this BBC article
Thanks to David Walsh and John Buchan for bringing this to my attention and providing the photo.
Show on map Dove Sculpture by Andrew McKeown in the Peace Garden near the war memorials.
Show on map The main war memorial in Billingham covers World Wars 1 and 2
Theres an additional small plaque on one wall for a single casualty of the Korean war, Sgt R Liddle.
Nearby is a new memorial for casulties since 1945 that was erected by Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Association around 2009.
A slightly more unusual monument is the one for ICI employees, this previously stood on Chilton Avenue, outside Chilton House
Most unusual is a plaque erected by the British Nuclear Test Veterans Association for those who died as a result of the tests at Monte Bello, Emufield, Maralinga, Malden Island and Christmas Island.
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This poster by Henry George Gawthorn depicting the pier is due to come up for auction at Swann Auction Galleries in New York next week where its expected to sell for £5,000 and £7,500.
Show on map The Pig and Whistle was demolished in 2001 when Redcar was redeveloped, Dave Woods has kindly contributed the following photos and his memories of the pub.
The location for anyone who does not know was where Morrisons car park now stands just before the railway crossing.
Not being brought up in Redcar and moving there in 1970 I don’t know too much about it’s early years. It was well liked for the quality of the beer pulled with a massive creamy head that they called a boiler. As you can see from the door it used the be The Alexandra Hotel in former years
The original entrance on West Dyke Road can just be made out below the Fosters Lager sign
The name Pig and Whistle, I was told years ago was a nickname for the place. The whistle from the trains and I’m assuming pigs nearby. People brought ornamental pigs from all over the world to give to the pub. Some of these can be seen in this photo taken in the bar.
The landlord at the time told me that he had boxes and boxes full of pigs upstairs but had nowhere to put them. I wonder where they all are now. When the pub was relocated to Station Road as much as possible of the old bar woodwork was reinstalled there but to me it’s not like the old place.
Dave Woods.
As a footnote, I located these two photos of the Alexandra in 1935
Show on map This first world war memorial is quite unusual as its on the wall of a private house, rather than the more usual stand-alone monument you might expect, another thing that made it stand out was a new addition at the base of the inscription.
For reasons unknown Sgt Maurice Mallinson had been left off the original memorial and thanks to the Normanby History Group his name was added on Saturday 17th November 2007
Show on map I noticed these two markers by the roadside on Smiths Dock Road.
The stones mark the edge of Bolckow and Vaughans property and are marked on old OS maps with the wasteland now to the east being the Eston Sheet and Galvenising Works which was aquired by Bolckow and Vaughan in 1916.
