A Tribute to the Eston miner
1850 - 1929 : Bolckow, Vaughan and Company
1929 - 1949 : Dorman Long and Company
These were the most prolific mines in Cleveland with an output over 99 years of around 63 million tons of ironstone , and yet such extensive mines have left few remains.
The story goes that in June 1850 when John Marley, mining engineer and John Vaughan, wealthy industrialist, took a walk into the hills where they came upon an outcrop of iron ore.
Events at Eston moved fast.
Eight weeks later iron ore was being quarried and sent to iron works throughout the region.
Within 20 years new iron works stretched along the south bank of the Tees, creating new communities like South Bank and Grangetown as well as halting the economic decline then facing the new town of Middlesbrough.
Thousands of workers attracted by the prospect of employment, arrived in the area.
At Eston the housing crisis meant that miners obtained lodgings wherever they could, even in barns on local farms.
Others slept rough or in tents.
To ease the situation new cottages were built east of the old hamlet of Eston. The settlement was called California in recognition of the 1849 Gold Rush in America!
New mines, Trustee and New Bank soon opened up. The hillsides were transformed with tubs of stone continuously sent down the inclines every day.
Up to 1600 men were employed and the underground workings stretched three miles, almost to Guisborough. By 1881 Cleveland was one of the world's major iron and now steel producing areas.
It was hot, it was dangerous - 375 deaths occurred in the ninety nine years the mines were open, the youngest aged only eleven.
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