Vulcan Street Works
Landmark Middlesbrough North Yorkshire

Vulcan Street Works

Landmark In Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire

Brickwork from the Victorian age.

As I had visited The famous Transporter Bridge in Middlesbrough, I then stretched my legs and took off on a 'Star Trek' down Vulcan Street..

The Vulcan Wall dates from 1887 and is the only remains of the industries that were here. The wall has been somewhat repurposed as windows to see the transporter bridge through.

The Bolckow Vaughan Ironworks were the second largest in Europe during the Victorian era.

The Cleveland Salt Works pumped brine from the nearby estuary from 1887 to 1945.

Middlesbrough Pottery also used local clay to mass produce everyday pottery, even potties! These were exported globally.

Further down the road you should be drawn towards The Dock Clock Tower, aside Dock Street. It was used as a navigational aid at the end of the Victorian era and into the Edwardian age. It provided hydraulic power to operate the dock gates and cranes as it was also a water tower.

The tower has 3 clocks on the Tower. The side facing the Tees does not have a clock as it was considered the workers would 'Clock watch'!

  Add To Bucket List   I Have Visited This Place

Get 2 points if you have visited this place. Already visited by 31 VIPs.

Login to the VIP area to add places to your bucket list, mark them as visited and more importantly see where you rank on the league table.

How To Find Vulcan Street Works

Where Is Vulcan Street Works?

Show Place On Google Maps

Lat / Long

54.582511, -1.22826

What three words

sugar.spot.fuzzy

Where To Park For Vulcan Street Works?

Show Parking On Google Maps

Lat / Long

54.583428, 54.583428

What three words

arena.rigid.gladiators

Parking available at Ferry Road carpark

Contributed by Rosalind Parker

Thanks for reading through and getting to the end of this post. I enjoy exploring the Fabulous North (Especially as a Southerner residing up North). I like 'snippets' of information, and more so, if they are obscure, amusing or meaningful. The photographs are taken on a mobile phone, without any enhancements.

More Places from Rosalind
Rosalind Parker

More Places In Middlesbrough

Find more fabulous places in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire and if you know of a place we haven't listed, then let us know.

Temenos
Temenos
Art Middlesbrough North Yorkshire

Art installation near Middlesbrough football ground.

Transporter Bridge
Transporter Bridge
Bridge Middlesbrough North Yorkshire

The Transporter Bridge that spans the River Tees in Middlesbrough.

RSPB Saltholme
RSPB Saltholme
Landscape Middlesbrough North Yorkshire

650 hectare site attracting thousands of birds every year.

More Landmarks

So this landmark wasn't enough and you want more? Don't worry we have you covered.

Winter's Gibbet
Winter's Gibbet
Landmark Elsdon Northumberland

A replica of the gibbet used to display the body of the murderer William Winter.

Penmanshiel Tunnel Monument
Penmanshiel Tunnel Monument
Landmark Duns Borders

A monument to two engineers who died during the collapse of the Penmanshiel Tunnel expansion.

Legs Cross
Legs Cross
Landmark Darlington County Durham

The remains of a Saxon Cross adjacent to the B6275 which follows the line of the old Roman Road Dere Street.

Never Miss A Fabulous Place

If you are afraid of missing out on all the fabulous places we post, or just want to be the first to know, then sign up to the Fabulous North.

Each week we will email you all the brand new places that we visit.

Sign Up To Alerts
Sign up to newsletter
Fabulous North On Facebook

Find Us On Facebook

We post all our new places daily on our Facebook Groups page, so join the group today and be notified when we add a new place.

Join Our Facebook Group