Introduction
The industrial revolution took place between 1750 and 1850 all round the world. In this essay it describes the changes made in Middlesbrough in this period and how the managed to cope with the surge of people coming into Middlesbrough. Everything changed in Middlesbrough in the Industrial Revolution like mining, transport, agriculture and even technology. Population grew at great rate as there was plenty of work and cheap labour was readily available. In 1829 Middlesbrough sustained high growth in technology and population. It was to become, in a very short time a port for North East coal. The railways happened in 1833,In 1840 Middlesbrough dock was built, In 1850 Ironstone was found in eston hills in Middlesbrough, from then on Middlesbrough s iron works commenced followed by steel works. Middlesbrough set the world price for steel. Middlesbrough became known as Ironopilis. The fortunes of the area have now declined but Middlesbrough will always be a symbol of the Industrial Revolution in the United Kingdom.
Findings
1829 Joseph Pease and a group of Quaker business men bought up 520 acres of land in Middlesbrough. Pease and his consortium bought the land to export the coal from Durham by sea through Middlesbrough. 1830 the Stockton and Darlington railway was extended to Middlesbrough as this was the best and cheapest way to export the coal to be shipped out to sea to other places. The group was planning the development of port Darlington on the banks of the tees. Pease and his group were planning a town so that they could provide accommodation to all the labour and staff who were to work on this project. 1830 was the start of the coal industry followed in 1840 by the iron ore industry which was ideal for the growth ...
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... a Victorian Ironopolis by Minoru Yasumoto there’s not much about the author apart from he’s a university lecturer who specialises in steel.
The second website I used was http://www.englandsnortheast.co.uk/Middlesbrough.html author David Simpson I couldn’t find anything about the author and the website was a very general site about the north east not very good.
The final website was http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/immig_emig/england/teesside/article_4.shtml this was the best website out of the three even though I could not find a author and it was last updated 2004 it was still good and easy to read and very good knowledge of the subject.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/immig_emig/england/teesside/article_1.shtml http://www.englandsnortheast.co.uk/Middlesbrough.html http://www.cpgb.org.uk/home/weekly-worker/940/rapid-development-and-workers-struggle
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