Re: Megalithic masons
Posted: 8:53 am
The first real bridging point on the Tees was at Yarm I believe. That's as far as ships could get. Stockton, downriver has a bridge built in Victorian times. I'm not sure about others.
At Middlesbrough they built the Transporter which is a carriage suspended on cables from a high structure spanning the river. Another bridge built later further up river in the thirties was a bridge that lifted. Again to let ships through.
At Eston there have been no bridges as far as I know. It does tend to get wider there and ships were built at nearby South Bank until Thatcher shut them down.
But on the opposite bank there were salt works. The whole area is a salt marsh and Cerebos salt was produced there. So it would have been an important stretch of the river.
Up on Eston Nab there was also a Bronze Age camp as well as an iron age camp And the place was used as a beacon site in Napoleonic times. And, perhaps much earlier as well.
If you are on the top it's an easy job to walk towards Roseberry Topping or veer further east and finish up at Guisborough Priory. Home to the Bruce family.
At Middlesbrough they built the Transporter which is a carriage suspended on cables from a high structure spanning the river. Another bridge built later further up river in the thirties was a bridge that lifted. Again to let ships through.
At Eston there have been no bridges as far as I know. It does tend to get wider there and ships were built at nearby South Bank until Thatcher shut them down.
But on the opposite bank there were salt works. The whole area is a salt marsh and Cerebos salt was produced there. So it would have been an important stretch of the river.
Up on Eston Nab there was also a Bronze Age camp as well as an iron age camp And the place was used as a beacon site in Napoleonic times. And, perhaps much earlier as well.
If you are on the top it's an easy job to walk towards Roseberry Topping or veer further east and finish up at Guisborough Priory. Home to the Bruce family.