Borough of Middlesbrough

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This article is about The Borough of Middlesbrough. For the current borough unitary authority, see Middlesbrough Council.
Borough of Middlesbrough
Borough with unitary authority status
Middlesbrough Town Hall
Official logo of Borough of Middlesbrough
Coat of Arms[1][2]
Shown within North Yorkshire
Shown within North Yorkshire
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Constituent country England
Region North East England
Combined authority Tees Valley
Ceremonial county North Yorkshire
Constituencies Middlesbrough
South and East Cleveland
Civil parishes Nunthorpe
Stainton and Thornton
Seat Middlesbrough
Area
 • Total 20.81 sq mi (53.89 km2)
Area rank 268th
Population (mid-2014 est.)
 • Total 139,119
 • Rank Ranked 147th
 • Density 6,700/sq mi (2,600/km2)
Time zone Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0)
 • Summer (DST) British Summer Time (UTC+1)
Postcode TS1, TS2, TS3, TS4, TS5, TS7, TS8
Area code(s) TS
ONS code 00EH (ONS)
E06000002 (GSS)
Ethnicity 88% White, 8% S.Asian, 4% other
Website www.middlesbrough.gov.uk

The Borough of Middlesbrough is a borough with unitary authority status in North Yorkshire, England, based around the town of Middlesbrough in the north of the county. It is part of the Tees Valley combined authority, along with Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar and Cleveland, Hartlepool and Darlington boroughs. Nunthorpe along with Stainton and Thornton have statutory parish councils.

History

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See also: Middlesbrough Rural District and Old Town Hall, Middlesbrough
County Borough/ district
Name Type Dependant Type From Until Notes
Yorkshire Historic YesY Municipal borough 1856 1889
North Riding of Yorkshire Geographical N County borough 1889 1968 Merged into Teesside
Cleveland (county town) Non-metropolitan YesY Shire district 1974 1996
North Yorkshire Ceremonial N Unitary authority 1996

From the county's creation in 1889 (from the historic subdivision of Yorkshire) areas under Middlesbrough's governance remained part of North Riding of Yorkshire county for varing amounts of self-governance. The final iteration of this governance was reconstituted as a non-metropolitan district in the county of Cleveland (the county itself governed from Middlesbrough) in 1974. Since 1996, for ceremonial purposes, the district is part of North Yorkshire as a unitary authority. Fire and Police, however, remain as well as the borough's placement in North East England instead of Yorkshire and the Humber, which large parts of North Yorkshire is in. It is included within the combined authority area of Tees Valley for strategic purposes.

Areas of the borough

The borough contains the following areas:

Structure

The borough is made up of 19 council wards (formerly 21 as Gresham ward merged with Newport ward between the 2011 and 2021 censuses) within the borough of Middlesbrough. Each ward has a non-statutory community committee.[3] There are also two statutory parish councils for "Nunthorpe" and "Stainton and Thornton".[4] East, north and west Middlesbrough as well as parts of Park End-and-Beckfield, Berwick-Hils-and-Pallister and Ladgate are covered by the Middlesbrough parliamentary constituency. South Middlesbrough as well as the other parts of the wards are covered by the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland parliamentary constituency.

Skyline of Middlesbrough
1 white, red rounded rectangle.svg Acklam (W)
2 white, red rounded rectangle.svg Aryesome (W)
3 white, red rounded rectangle.svg Longlands and Beechwood (N)
4 white, red rounded rectangle.svg Berwick Hills and Pallister (E)
5 white, red rounded rectangle.svg Brambles and Thorntree (E)
6 white, red rounded rectangle.svg Central (N)
7 white, red rounded rectangle.svg Kader (W)
8 white, red rounded rectangle.svg Ladgate (W)
9 white, red rounded rectangle.svg Linthorpe (N)
10 white, red rounded rectangle.svg Newport (N)
11 white, red rounded rectangle.svg North Ormesby (E)
12 white, red rounded rectangle.svg Park (N)
13 white, red rounded rectangle.svg Park End and Beckfield (E)
14 white, red rounded rectangle.svg Trimdon (W)
15 white, blue rounded rectangle.svg Coulby Newham (S)
50x12px Hemlington (S)
50x12px Marton East (S)
50x12px Marton West (S)
50x12px Nunthorpe (S)
50x12px Stainton and Thornton (S)

The council operates a with directly elected Mayor of Middlesbrough. The political composition of the council, as of the May 2019 local election, is Independent 23, Labour 20; and Conservative 3.

Political party make-up of Middlesbrough Borough Council
   Party Seats[5][6] Current council
  Independent 23                                                                      
  Labour 20                                                                      
  Conservative 3                                                                      

Teesside International Airport (formerly known as Durham Tees Valley Airport), is joint owned by the borough and the other four Tees Valley councils The council also owns multiple buildings in the borough.

Mayor

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See also: Mayor of Middlesbrough
The first ten mayors of Middlesbrough[7]
Year Name of Mayor
1853 Henry Bolckow
1854 Issac Wilson
1855 John Vaughan
1856 Henry Thompson
1858 John Richardson
1859 William Fallows
1860 George Bottomley
1861 James Harris
1862 Thomas Brentnall
1863 Edgar Gilkes
The first directly elected mayors of Middlesbrough[8]
Years Name of Mayor
2002–2015 Ray Mallon
2015–2019 Dave Budd
2019–2023 Andy Preston
2023– Chris Cooke

The first mayor of Middlesbrough was the German-born Henry Bolckow in 1853.[9][10] In the 20th century, encompassing introduction of universal suffrage in 1918 and changes in local government in the United Kingdom, the role of mayor changed and became largely ceremonial.

In 2001, as part of a wider programme of devolution, voters in Middlesbrough were offered a referendum to decide between a directly elected mayor or the cabinet system then in operation, with the traditional civic and ceremonial functions of the Mayors being transferred to the Chair of Middlesbrough Council, which they did so by a large margin.[11]

In 2002, Ray Mallon (Independent), formerly a senior officer in Cleveland Police, became Middlesbrough's first directly elected mayor. He was re-elected in 2007[12] and then in 2011.[13] Mallon chose not to stand for a fourth term in 2015 and his deputy mayor, Dave Budd (Labour) was elected to succeed him.[14][15] Budd decided not to stand for a second term and in the May 2019 mayoral election, local businessman Andy Preston (independent) won with 59% of the vote.[16]

Demography

Borough

The borough of Middlesbrough's total resident population was 139,119, by the mid-2014 est. The population of Middlesbrough as a county borough peaked at almost 165,000 in the late 1960s, however this has declined since the early 1980s before starting to recover in the 2010s.[17]

Women in the former Middlehaven ward (absorbed into the central ward) had the second lowest life expectancy at birth, 74 years, of any ward in England and Wales in 2016.[18]

Population 2011 Borough
White British 86.0%
Asian 7.8%
Black 1.3%

In the borough of Middlesbrough, 14.0% of the population were non-white British. This makes the town about as ethnically diverse as Exeter. Additionally, it has a lower indigenous population than Gateshead and South Shields which are further north on the other side of County Durham but now in Tyne and Wear although historically within County Durham. It is also the second most ethnically diverse settlement in the North East (after Newcastle).

Economy

File:Middlesbrough, town hall - geograph.org.uk - 796556.jpg
Middlesbrough Town Hall, Albert Street

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Middlesbrough at current basic prices published (pp. 240–253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.

Year Regional Gross Value Added4 Agriculture1 Industry2 Services3
1995 1,115 8 377 729
2000 1,192 6 417 768
2003 1,538 6 561 971

^1 includes hunting and forestry

^2 includes energy and construction

^3 includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured

^4 Components may not sum to totals due to rounding

Freedom of the Borough

The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Borough of Middlesbrough.


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Individuals

  • Joseph Calvert: 7 November 1919.[19]
  • L. Taylor – 30 March 1967 (deceased 23 May 1983)
  • Monsignor Canon M O'Sullivan – 26 March 1968 (deceased 6 May 1978)
  • Mary A. Daniel – 16 October 1974 (deceased 23 December 1983)
  • Ethel A. Gaunt – 16 October 1974 (deceased 10 June 1990)
  • Lord Bottomley of Middlesbrough in the County of Cleveland – 21 December 1976 (deceased 3 November 1995)
  • E. A. Dickinson – 8 May 1981 (deceased 2001)
  • Rose M. Haston – 9 May 1986 (deceased 22 January 1991)
  • Arthur Pearson – 9 May 1986 (deceased 23 February 1997)
  • Robert I. Smith – 9 May 1986 (deceased 23 February 1993)
  • W. Ferrier – 16 June 1992 (deceased 4 March 2015)
  • G. Popple – 16 June 1992 (deceased 10 May 2003)
  • Len Poole – 16 June 1992 (deceased 15 May 2011)
  • John Robert Foster – 8 March 1996
  • Alma Collin – 15 March 2000 (deceased 2014)
  • Hazel Pearson – 3 December 2003 (deceased 5 February 2016)
  • Steve Gibson – 18 March 2004
  • Jack Hatfield – 30 June 2009 (deceased January 2014)
  • Mackenzie Thorpe – 11 April 2019[20]
  • Gareth Southgate - 28 July 2021.[21][22][23][24]

Military units

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