Heritage Strategy - Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council

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stockton-on-Tees <strong>Heritage</strong> <strong>Strategy</strong> ♦ ♦ ♦ River Tees <strong>Stockton</strong> and Darlington Railway Social and industrial history • Local historical maps. • Local history societies newsletters. • Local newspapers and newspaper cuttings. ♦ Transport ♦ Local villages • Books, articles and pamphlets by local authors. • Council documents. • Electronic items such as CD roms on family history. • Local census returns. • Local directories. • Microform copies of material of local and family history significance. • Photographs of local significance. • Websites and online resources such as Ancestry. The SBC library service continues to add to its collections with material deemed important by residents and often requested. One of the latest additions to the library collection is “Air Raid Diary: The Luftwaffe Attacks on Teesside 1940-1943” by Bill Norman. 21 Tees Archive’s School visit
Chapter 2: Knowing our <strong>Heritage</strong> Principal Urban centres - Thornaby Thornaby is said to have come into its existence in about 800 A.D.when the land was given by Halfdene, King of the Danes, to Thormod, one of his noblemen. However, evidence from Thornaby indicates that there was also much earlier activity in the area. A stone axe, 8" long, dating back to the Mesolithic Period ( about 3000 B.C. ) has been discovered and in 1926 a dug out canoe said to date from about 1600 - 1400 B.C. was found in the mud under 8 feet of water opposite Thornaby High Wood. An arrow head of the Neolithic Period (about 3000 B.C.) was found in a garden on the Thornaby Village Green. St Peter's church on Thornaby Green, dates back to the 11th & 12th Centuries. The name Thornaby first appears in 1665 and refers to old Thornaby village near the River Tees. In the 19th century old Thornaby, centred on St Peters Church and the old village green was gradually overshadowed by the town of South <strong>Stockton</strong>. A wide variety of industries including shipbuilding, iron and steel, heavy engineering, sugar and flour milling, gave rise to a large new town. Thornaby aerodrome was an important RAF base during WWII and came into being in 1930, although the area had been used for flying since 1919. The base was home to the North Riding 608 Squadron. Spitfire Roundabout, Thornaby The aerodrome finally closed in 1958 with most of the land being sold for redevelopment in 1963. For a short time the site was used as a motor racing circuit, with the delightful names of Hudson straight, Anson straight, Hawker hairpin, Hurricane corner, Gladiator bends, and Defiant corner. Today, many of the aerodrome buildings survive but the runways have vanished beneath the new Town Centre and housing developments. However, some of the street names reflect Thornaby’s aviation history. Thornaby Green 22
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