The only information we have about these two photographs is that the view is of the River Tees and Gjeres Mill taken from the top of North Tees Power Station. Maybe someone can tell us if this is correct … Date unknown.
Picture Stockton Archive
A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
I would the date about 1960. Gjeres Mill I know nothing of. On the top picture (from North Tees ‘C’ Station), the building nearest on the left is North Tees ‘B’ Power Station. At that time the B station was operating on a peak load basis. I think that the lower and longish building about 60 yards further east was the original Power Station – by this date known as ‘A’ Station. I vaguely recall that it’s mechanical inverters were still operating, but can’t remember why they should have been.
May I add a little further information to further help identify the various bits of North Tees Power Station shown on the upper picture? The building partly shown at the left hand side is a North Tees ‘B’ Power Station boiler house that was a late addition to the plant. To the right of its stack, above the corner of the building, are two of the stacks belonging to the originally installed ‘B’ Station boilers. Looking slightly further to the right, the larger diameter stack is that of the original ‘A’ Station with the ‘B’ Station turbine building immediately in front of it. I cannot pick out the ‘A’ Station turbine house with any certainty, but it was located just behind the stack in this view. This site’s picture reference 725T2049.jpg shows the whole area around the ‘A’ and ‘B’ Stations from a very similar viewpoint. Another aerial view of the stations, dating from 1930, can be found at image reference EPW032221 on the “Britain from Above” website; this picture does not show the newer boiler plant shown on the more recent photographs. Does anybody know when and why this additional boiler plant was constructed?
Apologies for the lateness of response Peter-for some reason your reply was not copied to me.
I take it that the ‘new boiler plant’ you refer to was the one at B station. If so, then it was the first pulverised fuel (coal) boiler ever built. I forget the date it was added, but suspect 1946/7