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The perfect plot
First House built in Middlebrough in 1830 by George Chapman.
© Courtesy of Middlesbrough Central Library |
The group of businessmen who bought the Middlesbrough estate, referred to as the Middlesbrough Owners, planned and built a simple, symmetrical town for 5,000 people. Four streets to the North, South, East, and West ran from the central square where the town hall was positioned. The building area was split into plots. Anyone who bought a plot was responsible for providing street paving, sewers and roads. The houses also had to adhere to strict building specifications, specifying the minimum width of roads, height of houses and size of windows.
There were also a plethora of rules for the occupiers of these new houses to adhere to; this included sweeping the street, muzzling dangerous dogs and driving carriages responsibly. Prohibited activities, were, amongst others, letting off fireworks, cock baiting and throwing out dung or rubbish. The entrepreneurs did their utmost to create a model town and by 1835 it appears they had succeeded. Historian William Lillie describes the town as stabilised and flourishing in his The History of Middlesbrough. Agricultural land had given way to a busy, efficient industrial town.
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