Old Eston & Normanby

Eston & Normanby are conjoined and part of the Middlesbrough conurbation in what is now known as Cleveland. These small towns owe their existence to the local ironstone industry which at its Victorian height was producing a million tons a year. In fact there had been an old village of Eston prior tot he discovery of ironstone but with a massive influx of thousands of workers a new town sprung up quickly, on area being named California to reflect that place's 1849 gold rush. By 1890, there was an architecturally harmonious town featuring all the usual Victorian social and religious buildings plus in 1893 a floating isolation hospital at the jetty. The Normanby section includes street scenes and townscapes, the brick and tile works, the school, "Tittybottle" park, the sanatorium and more.