Two photographs of North Tees Power Station taken in the 1980s.
Photographs courtesy of Stephen Frost.
North Tees Power Station – 1980s
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Two photographs of North Tees Power Station taken in the 1980s.
Photographs courtesy of Stephen Frost.
My Dad, John Clarkson, was a fitter at North Tees until it closed and he was transferred to Ferrybridge C. My Godfather, Arthur Tumilty, was a foreman, before he left for the riches of South Africa in the late 70’s. My Grandad George Clarkson worked on the coke side, I think, and later as a commissionaire (security).
I knew your father, I was in the fitting shop with him at North tees C power Station (1960). Is he still around?
I think that this is the third power plant built on this site and therefore was the North Tees “C” plant.It was commissioned in 1952 and contained four generating sets of 62.5 MW each. Steam pressure was 950 psi and inlet temperature 510 deg Celsius. These steam conditions were quite high for the time.The first power plant on the site was built in 1919.The second plant, North Tees “B”, built in 1934 was also very advanced. Although one of the oldest plants in the country, it was still running in 1969. Has anyone any pictures of North Tees “A” and “B”?
Eddie did I work with you at Billingham Town Centre in 1968-69?
My Dad John Tierney was a Hatchwayman at the Power Station, who loaded the coal from the ships, onto the conveyor belts that took it into the Power Station to fire the boilers. He worked there from when it opened.
These photographs raise many memories for me. I lived in Middlesbrough in the 1940″s and used to cycle to visit my uncle and aunt in Billingham and watched North Tees “C” being built. I started my career in the electricity industry as a graduate trainee at North Tees in late “61 and was there on and off for 3 years before moving on. I eventually moved to the Midlands but still travel back to Teesside to see my parents and watched all 3 of the North Tees generating stations being demolished over a period of several years. I have some very fond memories of the people I worked amongst and often wonder how many are still alive, and where they are now – Jim Stevens, George Collier, John Metcalfe, Ralph Hogg are names that spring to mind immediately, but there are many, many, more. I would be delighted to hear from anyone who worked at North Tees in that era. Incidentally, the conveyors in the photographs were used for lifting coal from the delivery and storage areas up to the boiler bunkers. I wasn”t the only one to sleep on the belts during night shifts when the station was shut down overnight. We were very creative in finding out-of-the way places to sleep !
I was at North Tees 1960 -1965 Student apprentice knew the people you mention well. Other Sid Grey, Jim Hall, Allan Rowland, Gus Russel Tom Carol , Les Gurr, et al. Probably long gone now
Pleased to see these images. I was an apprentice at North Tees C in 1975. My memories are cycling from Pallister Park and back along with a days work.
I noticed that there was a note from someone wondering about this long demolished feature of the north bank of the Tees. Here are a couple of photos from the 1980″s after the power station had closed. The first photograph was taken from Newport Bridge in 1983, looking downstream, and shows the power station with the equipment for unloading coal from ships (or loading them with ash?) The second photograph was taken from a boat in the river in November 1988 and shows the power station with an almost perfect reflection. By this time little more than the main building remained. I hope that these two are of interest – they make a good contrast with the existing photo of the power station in its more active days. Incidentally the site of the power station was the proposed entrance for the nuclear dump that NIREX wanted to build.