Teesside

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Panoramic view of Middlesbrough

Teesside is a conurbation in northeast England around the cities of Middlesbrough , Stockton-on-Tees , Redcar and Billingham with about 376,000 inhabitants. From 1969 to 1974 it was also the name of a county borough in the area. It is named after the river Tees , which there, coming from the west, flows east into the North Sea. Teesside was an important location for heavy industry in the 20th century , since the crisis of this branch of industry in Great Britain it has been nationwide especially for pollution , unemployment and poverty known.

history

The area began to develop around steel and iron production , and chemical industry moved to the river since the First World War . The first chemical plant was built in Billingham , followed by a plant in Wilton after the Second World War . In the 1970s, various other chemical plants settled in Seal Sands . In the first half of the 20th century, Teesside was best known for its rapid growth, but it also suffered badly from air pollution . While classic industrial regions like Liverpool had to struggle with the first symptoms of crisis as early as the 1950s and 1960s, Teesside was still considered a growth region at that time. The shipyards closed, but politicians and industrialists assumed that other industrial production could take on their role. Most of the chemical industry now belongs to Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), while the steel industry in Teesside is dominated by British Steel . The chemical or steel works can be seen from almost every point of view in the flat valley. Their growth did not materialize, however, with the oil crisis in the mid-1970s at the latest , industrial production in Teesside fell dramatically. British Steel cut 69% of jobs in the region between 1978 and 1984 and ICI cut 30% between 1980 and 1984. From 1975 to 1984 over 60,000 jobs were lost in industry, while just 4,000 were added in the service sector .

Since the 1980s, unemployment has been a burden for the area. Cleveland County in Teesside had the UK's highest unemployment rate several times at the time , with several municipalities above 30%.

Offshore wind farm

The Teeside offshore wind farm, completed in 2013, is located off the coast . The wind farm consists of a total of 27  wind turbines of the type Siemens SWT 2.3-93 with 2.3 MW rated power, which are equipped with rotors of 93 meters diameter. The total nominal output of the offshore wind farm is 62.1 MW.

Web links

Commons : Teesside  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b J. Stephen Kroll-Smith, Phil Brown, Valerie Jan Gunter: Illness and the environment: a reader in contested medicine . NYU Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8147-4729-9 , pp. 227/228
  2. ↑ Michael Pollard: Great Rivers of Britain: The Clyde, Mersey, Severn, Tees, Thames, Trent . Evans Brothers, 2002, ISBN 0-237-52481-3 , p. 29
  3. ^ Ruth Lupton: Poverty street: the dynamics of neighborhood decline and renewal . The Policy Press, 2003, ISBN 1-86134-535-6 , p. 48
  4. ^ Philip Norton, David Michael Wood: Back from Westminster: British members of Parliament and their constituents . University Press of Kentucky, 1993, ISBN 0-8131-1834-4 , p. 111
  5. ^ John Vail, Jane Wheelock, Michael James Hill: Insecure times: living with insecurity in contemporary society . Taylor & Francis, 1999, ISBN 0-415-17094-X , p. 142
  6. ↑ Teesside . http://www.4coffshore.com . Retrieved August 7, 2013

Coordinates: 54 ° 36 ′  N , 1 ° 11 ′  W