Teesside Archives/Tees Archaeology
In additional to Stockton Borough Council Services, several other services are provided through joint arrangements with other local authorities:
Teesside Archives - see below
Tees Archaeology - see below
Teesside Archives
Teesside archives is responsible for collecting and preserving archival material from official and private sources in the areas served by the councils of Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland, Stockton and Hartlepool. It is an ideal place for research into local and family history.
Records include:
The Minutes and Proceedings of the former local authorities, which became part of Cleveland in 1974.
Census Returns of the former Cleveland area, 1841 - 1891.
Church Records: most Church of England parishes, some Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist records.
Register of Electors.
Monumental Inscriptions.
Schools and School Boards.
Boards of Guardians (including Workhouse records of Guisborough, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough)
Societies and Trade Unions.
Parish Councils, Businesses, Hospitals & Motor Taxation.
Tithe, Enclosure, Ordnance Survey and other maps.
Tape recordings: Oral history recordings and Radio Cleveland Sound Archives.
Images of the interior of Teesside Archives.
Contact: Teesside Archives, Exchange Hse, 6 Marton Road, Middlesbrough TS1 1DB.
Telephone: (01642) 248321.
E-mail: teesside_archives@middlesbrough.gov.uk
Opening Hours:
Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm.
Tuesday from 9.00 am to 9.00 pm and Friday from 9.00 am to 4.30 pm.
For local history sources held at Stockton Reference Library please click on the Reference Library menu button.
Tees Archaeology
Tees Archaeology (formerly the Cleveland County Archaeology Section), provides an archaeological service for the Council's of Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland and Stockton.
The Borough of Stockton-on-Tees is rich in archaeological sites and 'finds' and Tees Archaeology have carried out many excavations and surveys in the area in recent years. Details of over 500 sites within the Borough are kept on the Tees Archaeology Sites and Monument Record database at Sir William Gray House, Hartlepool, together with a wide range of Ordnance Survey maps and an extensive collection of aerial photographs and slides.
All information held on the Tees Archaeology Sites and Monuments Record database, access to the maps, photographs and slides etc. is freely available to the general public, the only restriction being that an appointment must be made to visit the office between 9.00 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. Mondays to Fridays.
Copies of a range of reports from many excavations and surveys carried out in the Stockton area, such as the North Street, Stockton report, recording the buildings of that street prior to their demolition, as well as from the Boroughs of Hartlepool, Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland, can be purchased from Tees Archaeology at a very reasonable cost.
Contact: Gary Green
Address: Tees Archaeology, Sir William Gray House, Clarence Road, Hartlepool TS24 8BT.
Telephone: (01429) 523455.