Tees Steel aims to bring heritage trails, conservation of important items and infrastructure and arts and cultural matters around the topic together.
Since 2015 a group of interested individuals and organisations have met regularly to discuss how the local steel making history can be protected, shared and celebrated with new audiences via the Tees Steel: Bridging the World Programme.
Their ideas were formally unveiled at mima in Middlesbrough on Tuesday, July 25.
With support from HLF Resilient Heritage Funding, a Business Plan has been prepared and will be formally launched at the event. The launch will include a short introduction from Mayor of Middlesbrough Dave Budd along with a wider presentation on the background to our steel heritage.
Mr Taylor said: “If this project is successfully completed it will enable the people of the Tees Valley and visitors to better understand and recognise the world scale of the iron and steel making and what we have given to the world over the last 170 years.
“Everywhere you go in the world – Calcutta, Sydney, Istanbul – the bridges are built on Teesside.
“We will present it in a way to give people here a pride of place in where they live through what we have done for the rest of the world.”
Middlesbrough Mayor Dave Budd added: “We have had a huge amount of interest from a lot of people all with different ideas and different ambitions of heritage and art, how we preserve and celebrate things.
“There is an ambition overall that this will become part of the Tees Valley story and that it will form part of our City of Culture bid.”
- Anyone wishing to attend the event should register via the Eventbrite website on the Tees Steel: Bridging the World Programme page. Alternatively, contact Chris Barlow on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
