Ralph Hodgson (9 September 1871 – 3 November 1962), Order of the Rising Sun (Japanese 旭日章), was an English poet, very popular in his lifetime as an early member of the Georgian School of poets , which included Rupert Brooke , Siegfried Sassoon , Walter de la Mare , Robert Graves and A. E. Housman . He shunned overt publicity and guarded his personal life fiercely but, at the same time, was a great, sometimes exhausting talker. He kept up a copious correspondence with other poets and literary figures, especially Siegfried Sassoon, as well as people he met in his time in Japan, such as Professor Takeshi Saito. His poem The Bells of Heaven was ranked 85th in the list of Classic FM's One Hundred Favourite Poems. It reflected his deep concerns with ecological matters and with cruelty to animals. One of his closest friends was Henry Salt, for whom he wrote the anti-feather-trade poem, To Deck A Woman.
68-615: He was born in Darlington in County Durham to a coal mining father. He eschewed a conventional education, and it was claimed he ran off to America as a teenager and worked in New York as a theatre designer, but there is no proof for this. While still a youth, Hodgson developed a love for bull-mastiffs and became something of an expert in their breeding and care, writing some of his first magazine articles about them. Following his brother Walter, who
136-511: A small press , At the Sign of the Flying Fame, with the illustrator Claud Lovat Fraser (1890–1921) and the writer and journalist Holbrook Jackson (1874–1948). It published most of his popular poetry including The Bull, Eve and The Mystery. In the immediate pre-War years he presided over a luncheon table at Eustace Miles vegetarian Café where he befriended Enid Bagnold. Hodgson received
204-673: A Mayor from 2002 to 2013. The current Tees Valley Mayor is Ben Houchen . The Mayor is responsible for Tees Valley's strategic planning and is required to produce or amend a plan for each electoral cycle. Two Lord Lieutenants ( Durham and North Yorkshire ) are appointed by the borough's ceremonial counties. The following is a chart of the Gross Value Added to the UK economy by the Tees Valley Combined Authority region, aggregated by industry. The Tees Valley Enterprise Zone
272-519: A branch of Barclays bank. During the period, George Gordon Hoskins was responsible for much of the town's architecture, designing buildings such as The King's Head Hotel. Darlington Free Library, a Grade II listed building in Crown Street, was built for £10,000 by Edward Pease . His daughter, Lady Lymington, opened the building on 23 October 1885 and presented it to the town council who agreed to operate it in perpetuity. As of 2022 , it contains
340-642: A library and "centre for local studies". In 1870, The Northern Echo newspaper launched. Its most famous editor, William Thomas Stead , died on the Titanic . Facing the present Northern Echo building on Priestgate is the William Stead public house named for him. In 1939, Darlington had the most cinema seats per capita in the United Kingdom. On the night of 13 January 1945, a Lancaster bomber piloted by Pilot Officer William Stuart McMullen of Canada
408-462: A national innovation catapult , is based at the Wilton Centre, the former corporate headquarters of ICI, which has become a multi-company research and development centre: along with CPI there are now some 60 other companies, including the cluster body NEPIC, using these R&D and business development facilities. This centre is now one of Europe's largest R&D facilities focusing on developments in
476-514: A new District Council of Langbaurgh (this took its name from the ancient Danelaw Wapentake of Langbaurgh of which if had formed the northern part.) These had formerly being parts of the North Riding of Yorkshire. Local government reorganisation in 1996 saw the county of Cleveland broken up: the boroughs became unitary authorities . The boroughs were placed into the counties of North Yorkshire and County Durham for ceremonial purposes . In 1997,
544-510: A permanent main line with branches. On 27 September 1825, George Stephenson 's engine, Locomotion No. 1 , travelled between Shildon and Stockton-on-Tees via Darlington, an event that was seen as ushering in the modern railway age. Later in the 19th century, the town became an important centre for railway manufacturing. An early railway works was the Hopetown Carriage Works (est. 1853), which supplied carriages and locomotives to
612-475: A relatively high proportion of ethnic minority residents (39.2% of the population in that area, compared to a town average of 6.3%). Constituted as a charity under UK law in 1982, the mosque offers worship facilities, as well as Islamic education, and has its own telecommunications mast for calls to prayer. Teesside International Airport is located 5 mi (8 km) east of Darlington town centre; it serves County Durham and North Yorkshire . The airport
680-499: A representative in the combined authority. The TVCA, amends the mayor's annual budget (by two-thirds majority). It does not have the power to block the mayor's directives. The Mayor of Tees Valley is a directly elected politician who, along with the Combined Authority, is responsible for the strategic government of Tees Valley. There are other mayors for the boroughs of Middlesbrough and Stockton-on-Tees. Hartlepool also had
748-522: A towering spire and a grade I listed status. Other churches include Methodist , Baptist , Roman Catholic and Jehovah Witness places of worship, as well as Holy Trinity Church and the grade II listed St John the Evangelist Church which closed for worship in 2023. The Jamia Mosque and Islamic Society of Darlington is located in the North Lodge Terrace area of the town, an area with
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#1732930763541816-677: A warehouse facility, which opened in early 2020, employing 1,300 full-time staff, one of the town's biggest employers. EE is the largest private sector employer in the town, with 2,500 staff. The company took over its operations from one of its predecessors, Orange Mobile. The Morton Park area of Darlington is currently undergoing a partial redevelopment, with areas of unused waste land being redeveloped into modern industrial and office space. Other commercial spaces in Darlington include North Road Industrial Estate, Cleveland Trading Estate and Faverdale Industrial Estate. The council depot on Central Park
884-518: Is Grade I listed. The oldest church in Darlington is St Andrew's Church , built around 1100 in Haughton-le-Skerne . When the author Daniel Defoe visited the town during the 18th century, he noted that it was eminent for "good bleaching of linen, so that I have known cloth brought from Scotland to be bleached here". However, he also disparaged the town, writing that it had "nothing remarkable but dirt"; roads would have typically been unpaved in
952-597: Is a market and industrial town in County Durham , England. It is the main administrative centre of the unitary authority Borough of Darlington . The borough is a constituent member of the devolved Tees Valley area. The River Skerne , a tributary of the River Tees , flows through the town. It is sited near to the Yorkshire Dales National Park , being 11 miles (18 km) from the park boundary near
1020-700: Is a conventional CHP power station and a biomass power station operated by Sembcorp on the Wilton chemical site. Hereema Fabrication Group make North Sea platforms at the A1048/ A179 roundabout in Hartlepool. Wilton Engineering's 50 acre fabrication and maintenance site is in Port Clarence . Barker and Stonehouse make furniture north of Middlesbrough next to the A66/ A178 junction. The Teesside Steelworks near Redcar
1088-607: Is a principal stop on the East Coast Main Line ; it is served by four train operating companies : Tees Valley Tees Valley is a combined authority area in North East England , around the lower River Tees . The area is not a geographical valley ; the local term for the valley is Teesdale . The combined authority covers five council areas: Darlington , Hartlepool , Middlesbrough , Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees . The town of Middlesbrough
1156-453: Is also to be redeveloped into commercial space. Darlington has a rich engineering heritage and several notable engineering firms established locally. Bridge building was particularly important in the town. Bridges built in Darlington span the River Nile and Amazon . Local engineering firms include: As an historic market town, a weekly outdoor market was held on the market square, which
1224-686: Is an enterprise zone which encourages industrial development. It was initiated by the local enterprise partnership Tees Valley Unlimited and its creation was announced by the government in 2011. At its launch, the zone contained 12 sites. Four of these sites offer enhanced capital allowances , aimed at large manufacturers. These sites are Wilton International and South Bank Wharf, both in Redcar and Cleveland, Port Estates in Hartlepool and New Energy and Technology Park in Billingham , Stockton-on-Tees. The remaining sites offer reduced business rates . In March 2015
1292-526: Is an international fine artist who gained credit for his early work dedicated to the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic. [1] The Forum Music Centre, opened in 2004, hosts regular live music events, from Ska and Punk to Indie and Classic Rock. It also runs a comedy club. As well as live music, the facility houses a state of the art recording studio and several rehearsal rooms. The Carmel Rhythm Club, at Carmel College in
1360-430: Is based at Darlington Town Hall on Feethams in the centre of Darlington. Darlington was an ancient parish . It was historically divided into four townships : Archdeacon Newton , Blackwell , Cockerton , and a Darlington township covering the town itself and adjoining areas. Such townships also became civil parishes in 1866. A body of improvement commissioners was established in 1823 to provide infrastructure to
1428-602: Is headquartered in Middlesbrough adjacent to Middlesbrough railway station. Main Triple-digit roads Bus Most of the area is served by Stagecoach's Tees Flex network, a pre-bookable service running in and around the valley, mainly serving Stockton on Tees, Darlington and Redcar and Cleveland. Services are operated by a dedicated fleet of Mercedes-Benz Sprinter minibuses. Stations The stations, by borough, are as follows: Lines Services York -based LNER serves
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#17329307635411496-472: Is located in Thornaby . Tetley Tea have had their only tea bag factory in the UK at Eaglescliffe , in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees, since 1969. It is the largest tea bag factory in the world and makes 18 billion tea bags a year. Its distribution centre is at nearby Newton Aycliffe in County Durham. Teesport is on the River Tees and is currently the third largest port in the United Kingdom, and amongst
1564-425: Is on Hollyhurst Road, in the corridor between Woodland Road and The Denes. The private Woodlands Hospital is at Morton Park. The former Civic Theatre, now The Hippodrome , is a popular arts venue in the town, hosting a mix of musicals, dramas, plays and pantomimes. In 2016, Darlington Civic Theatre closed to mark the start of a £12.3 million renovation project that included a £4.5 million lottery grant from
1632-467: Is one of the biggest in the country. An indoor market is located underneath the town clock on Prebend Row. Retailers in the area include: In November 2012, a deal was signed between Darlington Borough Council and developer Terrace Hill for a £30 million re-development of the site of the former Feethams bus depot. The proposal had an expected completion date of late 2014, though this did overrun with completion early 2016. Darlington Memorial Hospital
1700-471: Is the largest population centre in the area. The borough of Middlesbrough is the smallest of the five, at only 54 square kilometres (21 sq mi) and a population of 148,285: the Stockton-on-Tees borough (including multiple towns) is the largest with an area of 205 square kilometres (79 sq mi) and a population of 199,966, as of 2022. From 1968 until 1974, parts of the area were included in
1768-731: Is traditionally known as Teesdale . For centuries, north Tees was under the Prince-bishopric of Durham . Both Darlington and Stockton had ancient wards. Middleton St George , Hartlepool and Billingham were in Stockton ward, the latter two were also in a district called Hartness. South Tees was under a wapentake called Langbaurgh , which had been the Easton part of the ancient region of Cleveland , in Yorkshire 's North Riding . Urban districts (such as Eston , Billingham and Saltburn and Marske by
1836-524: The Borough of Darlington also became a unitary authority . Tees Valley is divided into seven and a part UK parliamentary borough constituencies : Each constituency is made up of wards . Four constituencies were held by the Conservative Party after the 2019 general election , up by three since the 2017 general election . This was expanded to five after the 2021 Hartlepool by-election . Labour hold
1904-519: The County Borough of Teesside council area. This was replaced by Cleveland county ; it had four borough councils which became unitary authorities after the county was abolished in 1996. Darlington became a unitary authority in 1997; the five authorities formed a Local Enterprise Partnership in 2011, further collaboration between the five authorities lead to Tees Valley Combined Authority being created in 2016. The River Tees ' geographical valley
1972-673: The Edmond de Polignac Prize in 1914, for a musical setting of The Song of Honour , and was included in the Georgian Poetry anthologies . The flying Fame press became inactive in 1914 as World War I broke out and he and Lovat joined the armed forces. Hodgson served first in the Royal Navy and then the Army, manning anti-aircraft guns on the East Coast of England. His poetic reputation was established by
2040-622: The Office for National Statistics , with figures in £ millions. Finance and manufacturing are now the main elements of its economy. A major employer in the area is the English division of the Student Loans Company , Student Finance England, which is based at Lingfield Point and employs over 1,000 people. Other large service sector companies with offices in the town include Darlington Building Society . Darlington Borough Council announced that
2108-609: The River Tees and River Skerne pass through the borough, the Skerne later joining the Tees which then flows east and into the North Sea . Due to river bifurcation at the Baydale Beck and Cocker Beck, which later flow into the Tees and Skerne respectively, much of the western side of Darlington forms a river island . In the north are Harrowgate , Coatham Mundeville and Beaumont Hill and to
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2176-419: The 18th century. The so-called Durham Ox came from Darlington; born in the early 19th century, this steer became renowned for its excellent proportions which came to inform the standard for Shorthorn cattle. During the early 19th century, Darlington remained a small market town. The Stockton and Darlington Railway ran steam locomotives designed for passengers and goods, built to a standard gauge, on
2244-484: The Anglo-Saxon Dearthington , which seemingly meant 'the settlement of Deornoth's people' but, by Norman times, the name had changed to Derlinton. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the town was usually known by the name of Darnton . Darlington has a historic market area in the town centre. St Cuthbert's Church , built in 1183, is one of the most important early English churches in the north of England and
2312-521: The Heritage Lottery Fund and revamped as The Hippodrome and connects to the children's theatre Hullabaloo . The Friends' Meeting House in Skinnergate is a Grade II* listed building. The Friends (Quakers) have met on this site since 1678, having previously met in private homes. The present building dates mainly from 1846. Upstairs of The Quaker meeting house is home to Artist Lucas Roy. Lucas
2380-620: The Hummersknott end of town, was another music venue. It opened the same year as the Forum. Darlington Dog Show was a championship event from 1969. It was usually held in September on the showground in South Park ; but it has now moved to Ripon. Darlington has a wide array of churches scattered around the town including the iconic and notable parish church of St Cuthbert's in the centre of town, with
2448-511: The Japanese University he worked at in Sendai that he met and befriended T. S. Eliot. Eliot tried in vain to persuade Hodgson to have his poetry published by Faber and also failed in an attempt to get Hodgson (whom Eliot dubbed ‘The Man In White Spats’) to illustrate Eliot's book of poems entitled Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats . In 1938 Hodgson left Japan and, after visiting friends in
2516-638: The Lucite International Acrylics factory and the Mitsubishi battery chemical plant are on the other side of the town. Exwold Technology operate their two extrusion and packaging facilities in Hartlepool. Banner Chemicals are adjacent to the A66 in Middlesbrough. Aldous Huxley 's visit to the former ICI plant in Billingham inspired Brave New World and this unit now makes fertiliser for Growhow, using 1% of
2584-651: The Sea ) and parts of rural districts , as well as municipal boroughs (such as Stockton-on-Tees , Thornaby-on-Tees and Redcar ) and county boroughs ( Middlesbrough ) were merged into the County Borough of Teesside in 1968. However in 1974, the county borough was disbanded. The 1974 reforms created the county of Cleveland , including Hartlepool , the former Urban Districts of Guisborough , Saltburn and Marske, Skelton and Brotton and Loftus. Four boroughs were also created. Hartlepool, Stockton which had formerly been part of County Durham were created along with Middlesbrough and
2652-449: The Stockton and Darlington Railway. The engineering firm of William and Alfred Kitching also manufactured locomotives there around this time. The town eventually developed three significant railway works: During the 19th century, Darlington Quaker families such as those of Pease and Backhouse emerged as major employers and philanthropists. Industrialist Joseph Pease gave Darlington its landmark clock tower in 1864. The clock face
2720-469: The Tees Valley are provided by Northern Trains . TransPennine Express has inter-regional services from Saltburn to Manchester Airport, via Leeds . Teesside International Airport serves the area and has a regular service from Amsterdam , Schiphol airport . The area is served by BBC North East and Cumbria and ITV Tyne Tees , the local based-television station Local TV Teesside also broadcast to
2788-645: The UK including Siegfried Sassoon (they had met in 1919), he finally settled permanently in a small farmhouse with Aurelia in Minerva, Ohio . Living in Minerva, he continued working on his long poem The Muse and the Mastiff and, with the help of Seymour Adelman, set up a small publishing venture under the Flying Scroll imprint. A new collection of his work appeared in 1959, The Skylark. His Collected Poems appeared in 1961. In 1954 he
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2856-648: The UK's natural gas. SABIC petrochemicals and polymers, Lotte Chemicals PET and PTA plants, Biffa recycled polymers, Huntsman polyurethanes and the Ensus Biofuels all operate at Wilton. ConocoPhillips refinery, BP Cats, Harvest Energy Biodiesel unit, Greenery Fuels, Fine Organics, Vertelus speciality chemicals and Ineos Nitriles are all based at Seal Sands, with Vopak and Simon Storage tank storage businesses nearby. Sita are upgrading their unit at Haverton Hill. Marlow Foods produce Quorn , and KP Snacks make McCoy's Crisps in Billingham. Santander UK 's mortgages division
2924-632: The area. Television signals are received from either the Pontop Pike or Bilsdale TV transmitters. Radio stations for the area are: Tees Valley is served by these local newspapers: Wearside League also host: Under the Northern League there is also the North Riding Football League , founded in 2017 by a merger of Teesside Football League and the Eskvale & Cleveland League In
2992-459: The chemistry-based process industries. The area is a chemicals processing area, but recently it has diversified to become the UK's leading site for renewable biofuel research. This industrial activity is taking place in a collaborative environment facilitated by the economic cluster body, the North East of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC). Hartlepool has a nuclear power station , and there
3060-456: The collection Poems (1917). His first wife Mary Janet (née Chatteris) whom he’d married in 1896 died in 1920. He then married Muriel Fraser (divorced 1932). Shortly after that he accepted an invitation to teach English at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. In 1933 he married Lydia Aurelia Bolliger, an American missionary and teacher working in Sendai. Hodgson had joined Edmund Blunden in Japan and
3128-500: The council has been a member of the Tees Valley Combined Authority along with Hartlepool , Middlesbrough , Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees . Unlike Darlington, the other four districts in the combined authority had all been part of the short-lived county of Cleveland between 1974 and 1996. As of 2024 , the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Darlington constituency is Labour 's Lola McEvoy . Former members of parliament for
3196-474: The first to be constructed since the 1960s. It was intended to be the 50th member of the long withdrawn LNER Peppercorn Class A1 engine, called Tornado and numbered 60163, from scratch in the 1853 former Stockton and Darlington Railway Carriage Works at Hopetown. Many of the original fleet had been built at Darlington locomotive works in the late 1940s. Tornado was completed in January 2008. To commemorate
3264-647: The full length of the ECML and operates Darlington railway station . There is also a daily LNER service from Middlesbrough to London King's Cross , while Grand Central has linked Teesside with London since December 2007 with a non-stop from York onwards. It does not have electric trains, and uses the Northallerton–Eaglescliffe Line and Durham Coast Line. CrossCountry operate regular services from Darlington to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne , Scotland , Leeds , Birmingham and southwest England. Local-service routes in
3332-454: The government announced that a thirteenth site is to be added, South Bank Wharf Prairie, aimed at oil and gas decommissioning business. Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) operated here until the late 1990s on three chemical sites at Wilton, Billingham and Seal Sands. ICI was broken up, and its many chemical manufacturing units are now operated by a large number of companies that have acquired its assets. The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI),
3400-473: The more built-up parts of the Darlington township. The commissioners were superseded in 1850 when the whole Darlington township was made a local board district , governed by an elected local board. The local board was in turn replaced when Darlington was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1867. The borough boundaries were enlarged on several occasions, notably absorbing the Harrowgate Hill area from
3468-521: The north-east are Whinfield and Haughton Le Skerne. To the east is the suburb of Eastbourne and Red Hall with Firthmoor and Skerne Park to the south. Situated in the west end are Hummersknott , Mowden and Blackwell . Finally, to the north-west are Branksome , Cockerton , Faverdale , The Denes , West Park , High Grange and Pierremont which is associated with the notable Henry Pease (MP) . The trend of regional gross value added of Darlington at current basic prices published (pp. 240–253) by
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#17329307635413536-544: The other two. Sedgefield's partial seat is also represented by a Conservative MP, as of the 2019 election. The two Middlesbrough seats have the largest majorities for either party. The Middlesbrough constituency has a sizeable Labour majority, whereas the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency has a strong Conservative majority. Tees Valley Combined Authority has its headquarters at Cavendish House , Thornaby . The area has 5 borough councils, each council has
3604-407: The parish of Haughton-le-Skerne in 1872, Cockerton in 1915, Haughton-le-Skerne in 1930 and Blackwell in 1967. In 1915 the borough was elevated to become a county borough , taking over county-level functions from Durham County Council . The borough was substantially enlarged in 1974 to take in most of the surrounding Darlington Rural District, such that the modern borough of Darlington covers both
3672-569: The site for the DL1 complex, previously a car park for Darlington Town Hall , was also to be redeveloped to house riverside office space for the Department for Education to replace its previous office on the edge of the town in Mowden, in an effort to safeguard Darlington jobs. This was officially opened on 19 March 2015. The Disclosure and Barring Service has a national office in the town. Amazon UK operates
3740-527: The ten biggest in Western Europe, in terms of tonnage shipped. Its size is due to the local steel and chemical industries. This port handles over 56 million tonnes of goods per annum which are mainly associated with the local petrochemical, chemical and steel processing industries. The port is an important piece of logistical infrastructure for the NEPIC cluster of process companies. PD Ports , who own Teesport,
3808-430: The town and a surrounding rural hinterland. The enlarged borough was also reconstituted as a non-metropolitan district as part of the 1974 reforms, with Durham County Council once more providing county-level services to the town. The borough was made a unitary authority on 1 April 1997, regaining its independence from the county council. The borough remains part of County Durham for ceremonial purposes . Since 2016,
3876-496: The town include Peter Gibson , Jenny Chapman , Alan Milburn (the former Secretary of State for Health under Tony Blair 's Labour government) and Michael Fallon (who was Secretary of State for Defence under David Cameron 's coalition government and Theresa May 's Conservative government). Darlington is located in the south of County Durham close to the River Tees, which acts as the border between Durham and Yorkshire. Both
3944-466: The town of Richmond . Darlington had a population of 107,800 in the 2021 Census , which classes it as a "large town". In the 19th century, establishment of the Stockton and Darlington Railway (the world's first permanent steam locomotive -powered passenger railway) led to the town having an industrial and manufacturing economy. Darlington started as an Anglo-Saxon settlement. The name derives from
4012-539: The town's contribution to the railways, David Mach 's 1997 work Train is located alongside the A66, close to the original Stockton–Darlington railway. It is a life-size brick sculpture of a steaming locomotive emerging from a tunnel, made from 185,000 Accrington Nori bricks . The work had a budget of £760,000. In 2001, Darlington became the first place in England to allow same-sex civil ceremonies and as of 2022 , it hosts an annual Gay Pride Festival at venues across
4080-402: The town. A 2005 Darlington Borough Council project to pedestrianise areas of the town centre, this included some Victorian features along High Row. In August 2008, a fire, in which nobody was killed, caused damage and weeks of closure until the damage fixed for several shops (including Woolworths ). The King's Head Hotel was also affected with damage to the roof and 100 bedrooms, the hotel
4148-456: The two established a close friendship during the time Blunden was writing Undertone of War. Also in Japan, Hodgson worked, almost anonymously, as part of the committee that translated the great collection of Japanese classical poetry, the Man'yōshū, into English. The high quality of the published translations is almost certainly the result of his "final revision" of the texts. It was while on furlough from
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#17329307635414216-608: Was a book and magazine illustrator, to London in the late 1890s, he found work as an artist on some of the early comic papers, such as Big Budget, where he first started to sign his work with the name ‘Yorick’. He then befriended Alfred Harmsworth, who employed him as chief cartoonist on Harmsworth’s first newspaper venture, the London Evening News. He later became art editor of C. B. Fry's Weekly Magazine of Sports and Out-of-Door Life. His first poetry collection, The Last Blackbird and Other Lines, appeared in 1907. In 1912 he founded
4284-439: Was able to reopen in 2012. There is one main tier of local government covering Darlington, at unitary authority level, being Darlington Borough Council . The council is a member of the Tees Valley Combined Authority , led by the directly elected Mayor of Tees Valley . Most of the built-up area of Darlington is an unparished area , although some outer parts of the urban area now extend into neighbouring parishes. The council
4352-505: Was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He died in Minerva in November 1962. Arthur Bliss set some of his poems to music, as did John Dankworth and Cleo Laine . "Some things have to be believed to be seen." "The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery." "Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?" "Did anyone ever have a boring dream?" Mary Janet Chatteris born 1875 died 1920 "Chatteris Family Tree" Darlington Darlington
4420-686: Was crafted by T. Cooke & Sons of York , and bells cast by John Warner & Sons of nearby Norton-on-Tees . The bells are sisters to Big Ben . Darlington Mechanics Institute was opened in 1854 by Elizabeth Pease Nichol , who had donated towards its cost. In 1853, South Park was laid out, over 91 acres (37 ha), with financial support from the Backhouse family. Architect Alfred Waterhouse , famous for work including London's Natural History Museum and Manchester Town Hall , designed Darlington's Grade II listed Old Town Hall and Market Hall, Darlington in 1860. Four years later he contributed Backhouse's Bank building that is, as of 2022 ,
4488-427: Was known as Durham Tees Valley Airport from 2004 until mid-2019. It has flights to a few domestic locations across the UK and international flights to some locations in Europe. Many private or general aviation flights use the airport. The airport has a Fire Training Centre. The nearest large airports are Newcastle (42 mi (68 km)) and Leeds Bradford (62 mi (100 km)). Darlington railway station
4556-500: Was on a training exercise when one of its engines caught fire and it crashed on farmland near Lingfield Lane. McMullen heroically stayed at the controls while his crew parachuted to safety and directed the stricken aircraft away from the houses below. He was killed on impact. His heroism was honoured by renaming Lingfield Lane "McMullen Road" and erecting a memorial monument. Starting in 1993, rail enthusiast group A1 Steam Locomotive Trust worked on building an all-new steam locomotive,
4624-729: Was the biggest blast furnace in Europe and was operated in its final years by Sahaviriya Steel Industries (SSI). Tata Steel Europe operate a pipe works at Hartlepool, whilst British Steel operate a heavy beam mill near Middlesbrough and a special sections mill at Skinningrove Steelworks . Able UK operate the biggest dry dock in the UK near Seaton Carew, Hartlepool where ships can be dismantled and oil rigs can be dismantled or refurbished. The many chemistry-based businesses on Teesside include Huntsman Tioxide plant at Greatham makes titanium dioxide . Huntsman's European headquarters are in Wynyard. Johnson Matthey Catalysts and Fujifilm Dyosynth Biologics have manufacturing units in Billingham while
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