Yes, “Middlesbrough in 1832”. To the uninitiated, it seems incredible. The former medieval village had shrunk to
little more than a farmstead by the turn of the nineteenth century, but would
soon see its population boom beyond belief in the ensuing decades…
Yarm was, Stockton is, Middlesbrough will be.
[Old Teesside
proverb, believed to have been uttered by industrialist Joseph Pease in the
1830s]
Population of Middlesbrough :
1801: 25
1829: 40
1831: 131
1841: 5,500
1851: 7,600
1861: 19,000
1871: 40,000
1881: 58,000
1891: 75,000
1901: 90,000
1932: 139,000
Present: c.140,000
A growth rate
believed to be unprecedented in Victorian England.
This remarkable place, the youngest child of England 's enterprise, is an
infant, but if an infant, an infant Hercules.
[William
Gladstone, 1862]
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