Dorman Long Tower - Listed Building Status

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Just little bit's chipped away.. until nothing no Cleveland Park, no Clareville Stadium..
 
rob_fmttm said:
People are constantly posting photos and references to Tees built steel structures around the world. How many holiday snaps have been transmitted back to this country with the Dorman Long plaque on Sydney Harbour Bridge? Here is a tower proclaiming Dorman Long still looking down on the Tees. Exactly how iconic do you want to get. It is the past but surely it is also the future. That name continues to give us identity, a sense of belonging, a sense or purpose, down by the steel river.
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Rob, there is a faded plaque on Lambeth Bridge, which is just a few minutes walk from where I live. It states the new bridge was built by Dorman Long in the 1930s. Always a little pride as I cross it.
 
newyddion said:
With talk of planning permission going through to have Dorman Long Tower demolished.. is there any way of getting the building listed as one with significant historic importance?

We've seen some wonderful buildings demolished on Teesside only to be replaced by car parks.. or nothing at all. It kind of feels like our local identity is being torn away.. with nothing of value put in it's place.

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Perhaps some of the architecture writers on Twitter can help. If you don't mind, I'll send this post to one or two.

Simon Phipps released a book called Brutal North which includes the tower. Also, let's see what the 20th Century Society suggests. They must have a North East officer.
 
Kevin Mcloud and George Clark could get together and make a Grand Designs/Amazing spaces joint venture, and then get Laurence Lwellyn Bowen to wave his magic floppy cuffs over it in a Changing rooms special episode.
 
I would only be in favour of preserving it if the building was put to use, like the Baltic in Newcastle for example. As a monument just sat there, it is a bit of an eyesore and the land around it, if not used for industry anymore should be put to use for practical purposes instead of this constant building on greenfield sites that seems to be going on.

We would probably end up with another neverending Middlehaven situation trying to get any consensus or funding to do anything practical in the short term though I suspect.
 
JonnyHistory said:
I would only be in favour of preserving it if the building was put to use, like the Baltic in Newcastle for example. As a monument just sat there, it is a bit of an eyesore and the land around it, if not used for industry anymore should be put to use for practical purposes instead of this constant building on greenfield sites that seems to be going on.

We would probably end up with another neverending Middlehaven situation trying to get any consensus or funding to do anything practical in the short term though I suspect.
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Surely the whole point of retaining something like that would be to bring it into a practical use. Like how the Odeon Cinema could have been used as a an O2 Academy type music venue or Zanzibar on Stockton could have been a glow in the dark mini golf..
 
newyddion said:
Surely the whole point of retaining something like that would be to bring it into a practical use. Like how the Odeon Cinema could have been used as a an O2 Academy type music venue or Zanzibar on Stockton could have been a glow in the dark mini golf..
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Well, the Odeon became Jumping Jacks which had acts perform there, I did a show with the Love Train there I think. The reality is it was a grotty place done on a budget though and didn't have the best crowd most nights. It was a travesty that the building was torn down and replaced with, well it's tarmac or gravel now isn't it?
 
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