Paddleducks
Paddler Information => Other Websites => Topic started by: Roderick Smith on April 15, 2008, 09:42:59 AM
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Starting point:
http://picture.stockton.gov.uk/photos/t1449.aspx
insert the reference numbers below into the stem link for direct entry.
Going to the search on boats & bridges (437 photos in pages of 10):
http://picture.stockton.gov.uk/category.aspx?id=10
* Steam paddle tug Sir Hugh Bell page 1, t9474
* Paddle steamer ferry 'Erimus' at Port Clarence. C1906 page 20, t4063
* Paddle steamer launch at Haverton Hill 1945, page 20, t4075
* The wreck of the tug 'Admiralty Jane' of Stockton after a boiler explosion in June, 1888 ; page 21
* A paddle steamer on the River Tees, Thistle Green. c1905, page 25 t1449 [I started with this one]
* The paddle ferry "Old Glory" on the River Tees at Stockton. The boat used to ply between Stockton and Newport. c1900.; page 26, s37
* PS Hugh Bell which operated between Middlesbrough and Port Clarence until 1911 when the Transporter Bridge opened.; page 27 t1732
* Ferry "Old Glory" on a picture of Stockton Quayside in 1890's; with comment that the name is wrong; should be 'Royal Charlie'; page 46, s39 and s36
* John Amos' boat moored at Stockton 1970's It left the Tees 4.3.76 and was towed to Medway Maritime Museum - renamed "Hero"(original name); several notes on preservation progress and other tugs; page 47, s1085
Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor
An aside for my own research
http://picture.stockton.gov.uk/photos/t1429-1433.aspx lifting-span bridge, first in UK.