Teesside?

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:-XWhere is Teesside anywhy?

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(from wikipedia) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teesside
Teesside is the name given to the conurbation in northern England based on Middlesbrough, Stockton and Redcar, along the banks of the River Tees with a resident population of over 465,000 in 2005.

The towns were integrated into one county borough of Teesside in 1968, and then in 1974 became part of the county of Cleveland, which extended to the coast and included Hartlepool and Guisborough.

The towns are now independent unitary authorities again, but the term Teesside remains in use as a geographic term and in the name of institutions like the University of Teesside. It has been adopted for various purposes as a euphemism for Cleveland.

Back in the 1980's Margaret Thatcher visited Teesside in part of her campaign at improving inner city decay and de-industrialisation by way of urban development corporations. The Teesside Development Corporation was established in 1987 and became defunct in 1996. At the time it was created Teesside was home to the largest continuous area of de-industrialised land in the whole of Europe.

Middlesbrough docklands (now known as Middlehaven) at the heart of Teesside, fell in to disuse in 1984 and has been abandoned and empty for two decades, however the Tees Valley Regeneration Company an urban regeneration company serving a population of 720,000; has recently been formed to revive the Teesside area.


(in reality, teesside actually includes; stockton, middlesbrough, hartlepool, darlington, redcar, yarm, thornaby, billingham, marske & norton) - we are in the north east of england

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that is rather profownd

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just goes to show what kind of bollocks you can find on wikipedia! ;D