Portrack Cut Opened 190 years ago on Tees

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Anniversary was a couple of days ago actually - if you go to Dorman Museum facebook page - which is really active with all sorts of interesting items every day. - Ian Stubbs has posted a really interesting paragraph or two about how a new canalisation of the River Tees followed the slicing off the Mandale Loop (the river used to loop right around where Teesside Park is now). These two great navigational improvements to the river made a massive difference. Previously it could take as long dodging sand banks, tides and river islands to reach upstream to Stockton as it would to go from Tees Mouth to London.
This 18th century map of the estates of Acklam shows the river before the two loops were sliced through.
But go and have a read on Dorman Museum facebook page
 
It certainly would. It must have been some undertaking and even more so the Mandale Cut in 1810. If we put that back then Lord Harewood could get back his watermill at Thornaby. Am sure he would be very pleased about that because he demanded massive compensation when the river was diverted and thus stopped his milling in its tracks.
I read somewhere that the River Tees is the estuary most changed by man in the UK.
 
rob_fmttm said:
It certainly would. It must have been some undertaking and even more so the Mandale Cut in 1810. If we put that back then Lord Harewood could get back his watermill at Thornaby. Am sure he would be very pleased about that because he demanded massive compensation when the river was diverted and thus stopped his milling in its tracks.
I read somewhere that the River Tees is the estuary most changed by man in the UK.
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Ermmmm ............................. think you might be in the wrong century, nay millenium Rob. Shouldn't the title of the thread be 'Portrack Cut Opened 190 years ago on Tees'. :unsure:
 
Ha ha... yes. Sorry. I was in the wrong century. I will change it now.
Yes 1831 Portrack
Mandale was 1810
 
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