Grangetown is an area in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. The area is 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Middlesbrough and 4 miles (6.4 km) south-west of Redcar.[2]
By 1914, it was community of around 5,500 people with most houses lying between Bolckow Road and the steel works. There was a market square, shopping centre, boarding school, three pubs, six places of worship, a police station and public bathhouse.[6] The Church of St Matthew, which was built in 1901, was demolished in 1979 and replaced with another building, the St Hilda of Whitby Church.[7][8] Though the inhabitants came from many parts of the country, the community had built up a strong identity and local pride. The majority of men worked in the steel works, but a wide range of skills was represented within the area and a whole cross-section of society lived together in the area. In 1906, a power station was built near the railway station, which was the first in the world to generate at 11,000 volts.[9] It closed in 1937[10][11] and was demolished in 1969.
A trolleybus at the former centre Grangetown market square on 31 March 1968
Grangetown had a period of expansion between 1914 and 1939. Both the steel companies and the Eston Urban District council built estates from Bolckow Road to and across the new A1085 Trunk Road,[12] with the steel company Bolckow Vaughan expanding their housing under the name of Grangetown Garden Village.[13] After the war, council house building was extended and in the 1950s reached Fabian Road.
The modern centre is on Birchington Avenue, the move in part due to the A66, which built through the area in the 1980s, and ends at a roundabout in the east of Grangetown.[14] Victorian terraced-houses, near heavy industry along the River Tees have been replaced with warehouses and depots of lighter industry. Some new houses have been built over the years with most of its original Victorian architecture lost.
Grangetown Boys Club F.C., The town's local football team who compete in the Northern League Division Two
In 1914, the community was around 5,500 people.[6] The population in 1939 was had grown to an approximate 9,000.[citation needed] By the 2011 census a ward covering the area had a population of 5,088.[1]
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