FOR four generations, Cleveland Bridge was led by members of the Dixon family: they founded the company, they saved the company, they made it a family firm and a global concern, and one of them owned one of the very first motor cars in Darlington. Cleveland Bridge is now, sadly, in liquidation, and we told in Thursday’s paper how it had been formed in 1877 by ten employees of the defunct Skerne Ironworks, which had collapsed on Albert Hill in Darlington. They had started their new business on Polam Hall’s strawberry field on Smithfield Road, off Neasham Road, backed with finance from Henry Isaac Dixon, of Stumperlowe Hall, in Sheffield – he was the youngest son of James Dixon & Son, a “Britannia metal” (or pewter) maker which had started in 1802 and had grown into one of the steel city’s leading manufacturers.
How Cleveland Bridge helped build the world and put Darlington on the map
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Take a listen to how Sue
Cadwell became the one hit by the rhino:
Sue Cardwell
Fortunately, 2 of her
friends were surgeons, so after the incident she was instantly to be calmed
down and assured she would live regardless of her dislocated elbow and the gaping
wound the rhino’s horn created. Her journey to the hospital was a long hour
with the potholes making it an even more challenging time for her in the ride
to Bay Hospital in Richards Bay.
“I felt like I was in
Grey Anatomy” is how Sue describes her arrival at the hospital.
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