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3-688: Teesdale Business Park is a major business park on the former site of Head Wrightsons ' Teesdale works in Thornaby-on-Tees , North Yorkshire, England. The park was redeveloped by the Teesside Development Corporation . The area is immediately north of Thornaby railway station . The business park is bounded by the Tees Valley Rail-line and the River Tees . It is a short distance from Stockton-on-Tees town centre – connected via
6-487: The Victoria , Teesquay Millennium , Princess of Wales and Infinity bridges. The area consists of the following buildings, businesses and organisations. In 1987, after Head Wrightsons ' Teesdale Works closed and the site had been cleared, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visited the site as part of her visit to Teesside to open the Teesside Development Corporation and made what has been poignantly termed her "Walk in
9-533: The Wilderness". Head Wrightsons Head Wrightson was a big heavy industrial firm based at Thornaby-on-Tees , North Yorkshire , England. It specialised in the manufacture of large industrial products such as fractional distillation columns, which sometimes needed special transport to get them to site. Its early products, which were made of cast iron or wrought iron , were used for boilers , railway chairs , naval ships , and many bridges across
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