21-615: The Cleveland Work Camps in England were known locally as "Heartbreak Hill" . They were a series of short events, staged in the East Cleveland ironstone mining villages of Boosbeck and Margrove Park , which ran from 1932 to 1938 with the aim of helping to alleviate the poverty which these mining communities experienced as a result of pit closures during the Great Depression . Notable figures involved with establishing
42-487: A Community Benefit Society with 15,000 properties across Teesside and North Yorkshire. The council maintains a number of Local nature reserves . These are Guisborough Branch Walkway, Flatts Lane Woodland Country Park and Rosecroft Wood, Loftus Wood, Whitecliff Wood, Clarksons Wood, Errington Wood and Eston Moor . There are five civil parishes in the borough. The parish councils for Guisborough and Loftus have declared their parishes to be towns, allowing them to take
63-527: Is twinned with: Greater Eston Greater Eston is part of the Borough of Redcar and Cleveland , North Yorkshire , England. The name is used by the borough council to describe the centres of Eston , Grangetown , Normanby , Ormesby , South Bank and Teesville . The villages of Lackenby , Lazenby and Wilton are in the area however were not included in Middlesbrough. Until 1968,
84-403: Is a unitary authority area with borough status in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire , England. Its council has been a unitary authority since 1996. The borough was created in 1974 as Langbaurgh , and was one of four boroughs in the non-metropolitan county of Cleveland . It was renamed Langbaurgh-on-Tees in 1988, and given its present name when Cleveland was abolished in 1996;
105-668: The UK's first wood-fired power station (Wilton 10), UK Wood Recycling Limited have a significant facility on the site providing waste wood to fuel Wilton 10. The Teesside Steelworks operated Europe's second largest blast furnace . The majority of the steelworks (including the Redcar blast furnace, Redcar and South Bank coke ovens and the BOS plant at Lackenby) closed in 2015, but the Teesside Beam Mill still operates, producing beams for
126-588: The aim of helping the student volunteers integrate with the miners. At the first camp, staged in April 1932, the evening events were run by the German choral teacher Georg Götsch , who taught the miners to sing German baroque music. The renown German puppeteer Harro Seigel staged puppet shows which accompanied Götsch's music. At the second camp, staged in September 1932, Georg Götsch was replaced as musical director by
147-472: The area merged. In the 1974 local government reforms, the county borough was renamed as the county of Cleveland , expanded as well as restructured to a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county. Areas of former county borough became unparished while the expanded areas remained parished. The county of Cleveland existed between 1974 until 1996, its Langbaurgh borough becoming Redcar and Cleveland . The borough of Redcar and Cleveland's unparished area , outside of
168-616: The borough was made a unitary authority in the same year. Redcar and Cleveland is part of the Tees Valley combined authority , which also includes the boroughs of Darlington , Middlesbrough , Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees ; the latter three were also formerly in Cleveland. Its main settlement is the town of Redcar . Other notable towns and villages include South Bank , Eston , Brotton , Guisborough , Greater Eston , Loftus , Saltburn-by-the-Sea and Skelton . The district
189-427: The composer Michael Tippett . Tippett staged a version of The Beggars Opera , with local miners performing alongside Tippett's friends, Francesca Allinson and Wilfred Franks . It was through the work camps that Tippett met Franks and he later described the relationship as 'The deepest most shattering experience of falling in love'. Immediately after the 1932 camp Tippett began composing his String Quartet No.1 which
210-572: The construction industry. Coast and Country took over the ownership and management of homes from Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council in July 2002. In addition to providing core housing services the company has also invested in independent living services, including the development of a new Telecare service in partnership with the Borough Council. In 2018, Coast and Country merged with Yorkshire Coast Homes to form Beyond Housing Limited,
231-614: The greater district of the town of Redcar is the Chemical Industry located close to Wilton village on the Chemical Industry Park known internationally as Wilton. The chemical companies are all members of the Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC). The Wilton chemical site is owned by Singaporean utility company Sembcorp and companies operating there include SABIC who have recently built
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#1732783234911252-788: The majority of the area was the Eston Urban District , although Ormesby was in Stokesley Rural District . The former district's application for a town charter was declined twice. It had a population of 38,130 at the 2011 census and was included as part of the Teesside Built-up Area's Middlesbrough subdivision. The ancient parish of Ormesby was divided into five civil parishes in 1866; Eston, Morton, Normanby, Ormesby and Upsall. Urban districts of Eston, South Bank in Normanby as well as
273-582: The parish of Normanby had a failed application to incorporate as a municipal borough on 21 February 1912. The South Bank in Nomanby Urban District was merged into the Eston Urban District in 1915. After the districts merged, the Eston Urban District also had a failed application to incorporate as a municipal borough on 30 January 1926. The County Borough of Teesside was created in 1968: boroughs, districts and parishes in
294-501: The scheme were the aristocratic landowner Major James Pennyman and his wife Ruth Pennyman , an idealistic young Cambridge University graduate called Rolf Gardiner , Manchester Guardian Journalist David Ayerst and local trade unions. The scheme was ostensibly created to enable the miners, with the help of student volunteers, to cultivate rough moorland with the aim of growing crops and keeping livestock. In addition to these practicalities, music and entertainment events were also staged with
315-718: The style "town council". The north-west of the borough, corresponding to the parts that were in the County Borough of Teesside between 1968 and 1974 (including Redcar and Eston and adjoining areas), is an unparished area . The parishes are: As of 2024, the borough has 24 wards represented by 59 councillors. These are named: Belmont, Brotton , Coatham , Dormanstown , Eston , Grangetown , Guisborough , Hutton , Kirkleatham , Lockwood , Loftus , Longbeck, Newcomen, Normanby , Ormesby , Saltburn , Skelton East, Skelton West, South Bank , St Germain's, Teesville , West Dyke, Wheatlands, and Zetland. Redcar and Cleveland
336-466: The world's largest low-density polyethylene plant (LDPE) and still operate an ethylene cracker. Lotte Chemicals are expanding both PTA and PET production. Huntsman manufacture polyurethane intermediates and Ensus have built Europe's largest bioethanol facility. Biffa Polymers now operate a polymer recycling plant that handles up to 30% of the UKs plastic milk bottles. While in support of Sembcorp, who built
357-542: Was created in 1974 as the borough of Langbaurgh, one of four districts of the new non-metropolitan county of Cleveland . It was formed from the Coatham, Eston Grange, Kirkleatham, Ormesby, Redcar and South Bank wards of the County Borough of Teesside , along with Guisborough , Loftus , Saltburn and Marske-by-the-Sea and Skelton and Brotton urban districts , from the North Riding of Yorkshire . The borough
378-506: Was dedicated to Franks. 'All that love flowed out in the slow movement of my first string quartet' the composer added. For a later camp of 1934, Tippett wrote Robin Hood (Tippett opera) , which was also performed by members of the local mining community (including Marjorie Bradley) as well as Franks, who acted the part of Friar Tuck. One notable member of Tippett's small orchestra was Frida Knight , who played violin. A furniture making project
399-558: Was established to train a group of young miners new employment skills. This furniture making scheme was initiated by Wilfred Franks who had studied furniture making in Germany under the Bauhaus master Reinhold Weidensee. The scheme was later developed into a furniture manufacturing business by Bernard Aylward, of Bootham School in York. Redcar and Cleveland Redcar and Cleveland
420-440: Was named after the ancient Langbaurgh wapentake of Yorkshire . On 1 January 1988 the borough was renamed Langbaurgh-on-Tees. Cleveland County was abolished on 1 April 1996, with its districts becoming unitary authority areas. At this time Langbaurgh-on-Tees was renamed Redcar and Cleveland. Cleveland County was a two-tier local authority, with the county council being superior to its four districts, of which Langbaurgh-on-Tees
441-786: Was one. Upon becoming a unitary authority, Langbaurgh-on-Tees Borough Council was renamed Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council and acquired all the full rights and duties as a county, whilst retaining the same boundaries as before. The borough had a population of 135,200 in 2011. This is a chart of trend of regional gross 'value added' of South Teesside at current basic prices by the Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling. ^ includes hunting and forestry ^ includes energy and construction ^ includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured ^ Components may not sum to totals due to rounding The main industry within
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