industries cleared from riverside area

[coraldon]

What industries were cleared from the area where the Riverside stadium is now, and when were they closed????

 

[HarryVegas]

The one that springs to mind was Sadler's, an ancient chemical plant, pretty much right where the stadium is now. It was an absolute pit full of poisonous waste.

 

[uncle_rico]

There was an abattoir if I remember rightly. Might have been a place that processed animal carcasses into something though. Seem to remember it being called the bone factory when I was a kid.

 

[Transitarmy]

Teesside Storage tank farm, they floated the tanks down to Seal Sands site. There was also Warners steelworks around there, behind the Navvy.

 

[HarryVegas]

There was an abattoir if I remember rightly. Might have been a place that processed animal carcasses into something though. Seem to remember it being called the bone factory when I was a kid.

That was a bit further off, towards Lawson Street school - very bottom of Cargo Fleet Lane.

 

[uncle_rico]

That was a bit further off, towards Lawson Street school - very bottom of Cargo Fleet Lane.

I‘m sure there used to be an abattoir where Starbucks is now. Might be something else I’m thinking of where the stadium is now?

 

[HarryVegas]

Talking of this subject, I seem to remember the pitch being in a right state during the first season there. My memory says the soil was sampled by Teesside Uni, who found a cocktail of chemicals in it. Of course, that could well have been an urban myth, or my mind playing tricks.

 

[tonybiriyani]

Talking of this subject, I seem to remember the pitch being in a right state during the first season there. My memory says the soil was sampled by Teesside Uni, who found a cocktail of chemicals in it. Of course, that could well have been an urban myth, or my mind playing tricks.

There was a brown patch on the pitch near the South Stand that they struggled to get rid of.

 

[chickenrunner]

What industries were cleared from the area where the Riverside stadium is now, and when were they closed????

Suspect the area had been derelict for a good few years before the stadium was built. Here are a couple of RAF aerial photos, the vertical is from 1948 and the oblique is from 1951. On the oblique the main buildings are identified as 'Cleveland Product Company' but looking at some older maps they were originally the 'Yorkshire Tube Works'.

 

[Rishworthian]

Cocherans the iron pipe makers were just beside the level crossing on the river side became Stantons and Staveleys. Effectively under the car park. E ?

There were a load of sidings and a warehouse between the rail lines and the Dock

Schellenbergs were the animal waste factory right beside the rail lines and that stank to high heaven

 

[coraldon]

Suspect the area had been derelict for a good few years before the stadium was built. Here are a couple of RAF aerial photos, the vertical is from 1948 and the oblique is from 1951. On the oblique the main buildings are identified as 'Cleveland Product Company' but looking at some older maps they were originally the 'Yorkshire Tube Works'.

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[coraldon]

The photos are the right area but there were companies at that site in 1990.

Cocherans the iron pipe makers were just beside the level crossing on the river side became Stantons and Staveleys. Effectively under the car park. E ?

There were a load of sidings and a warehouse between the rail lines and the Dock

Schellenbergs were the animal waste factory right beside the rail lines and that stank to high heaven

Its Schellenbergs date of closing I require, if anyone knows

 

[coraldon]

I‘m sure there used to be an abattoir where Starbucks is now. Might be something else I’m thinking of where the stadium is now?

Think it was Hargreaves abbatoir at bottom of Cargo Fleet Lane with junction of Middlesbrough Road

 

[uncle_rico]

Cocherans the iron pipe makers were just beside the level crossing on the river side became Stantons and Staveleys. Effectively under the car park. E ?

There were a load of sidings and a warehouse between the rail lines and the Dock

Schellenbergs were the animal waste factory right beside the rail lines and that stank to high heaven

Shellenbergs, that it. They made glue from animal bones, and yes it stank

 

[chickenrunner]

The photos are the right area but there were companies at that site in 1990.

Its Schellenbergs date of closing I require, if anyone knows

Apparently Cleveland Products was Schellenbergs. Closed late '70s early '80s according to this .............. Schellenbergs

 

[Yearbyred]

The one that springs to mind was Sadler's, an ancient chemical plant, pretty much right where the stadium is now. It was an absolute pit full of poisonous waste.

No change there then.

 

[eggybread]

Judging by the last few years…. it used to be an ancient Indian burial site.

 

[Corcaigh_the_Cat]

The one that springs to mind was Sadler's, an ancient chemical plant, pretty much right where the stadium is now. It was an absolute pit full of poisonous waste.

No change then

Beaten to it

 

[pierrequiroule]

That was a bit further off, towards Lawson Street school - very bottom of Cargo Fleet Lane.

Lawson was my first school as there wasn't one built in Park End at that time. My grandfather was an odd-job man at Scellenberg's and first set foot in England at Middlesbrough dock. Keith Schellenberg was an all-round adventurer and won an Olympic silver medal in the luge or bobsleigh. Another view.

 

[Corcaigh_the_Cat]

Lawson was my first school as there wasn't one built in Park End at that time. My grandfather was an odd-job man at Scellenberg's. Keith Schellenberg was an all-round adventurer and won an Olympic silver medal in the luge or bobsleigh. Another view.

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That's a brilliant photo

What year, any idea?