Notes
1 Evening Gazette (a Teesside newspaper based in Middlesbrough), June/August 1986.
2 In North America the original Italian spelling of Loretto is used.
3 Fr Austin Smith, in a keynote address delivered at the fourth International Stauros Congress on Powerlessness, Duquesne University, USA, June 1985. See also his Passion for the Inner City: A Personal View (Sheed and Ward, 1983) and Journeying with God: Paradigms of Power and Powerlessness (Sheed and Ward, 1990). Fr Smith died in 2011 aged 82.
4 Teesport is now the third largest port in the UK and amongst the ten biggest in Western Europe.
5 The Stockton and Darlington Railway linked Stockton-on-Tees with coalfields in the Shildon area via Darlington. It was extended to Middlesbrough in 1831. See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_and_Darlington_Railway>.
6 The Clarence Railway was owned by a Londoner, Christopher Tennant. The line was taken over by the Stockton and Hartlepool Railway, a subsidiary of the Hartlepool Docks and Railway Company, to allow quicker onward shipment from Hartlepoolâs new docks. This became part of the North Eastern Railway in 1865. See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Railway>.
7 Some of the historical information has been retrieved from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Clarence> and <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haverton_Hill>.
8 See <http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Isaac_Lowthian_Bell>.
9 I am indebted to Ann Appleton, brought up in Port Clarence, for invaluable information during this early period drawn from her MA dissertation on Local History (CNAA) at Teesside Polytechnic, âA Colony of Workmen: The Socio-Economic Development of Port Clarence 1851â1881â (<http://www.freewebs.com/portclarence/18511881.htm> created by Marsha Mulloy).
10 BBC on the internet: âDomesday ReloadedâPort Clarence and Havertonâ, <http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-448000-522000/page/2>.
11 Mary Whitaker (nĂ©e Appleton), âGrowing up in Port Clarence in the 1950s and 60sâ, in Appleton, MA dissertation (<http://www.freewebs.com/portclarence/1950s1960s.htm> created by Marsha Mulloy).
12 Cited in Appleton, MA dissertation. Florence Bellâs book was published by Ernest Arnold (London, 1907).
13 Louise Gwynne-Jones, âSeal Sands: 1000 years of Industry alongside Natureâ (<http://www.stocktonteesside.co.uk/seal-sands---teesmouth-national-nature-reserve.html>). By the sixteenth century, this profitable salt industry had been eclipsed by that of South Shields. Boreholes were also sunk in Cowper Marsh.
14 It was first called the Government Nitrogen Factory. Brunner Mond renamed it the Synthetic Ammonia and Nitrates Company.
15 See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billingham_Manufacturing_Plant>. New industries included plastics for aircraft cockpits, and synthetic petrol made from hydrogenated carbon (coal) for aircraft fuel. In the Second World War, atomic research also took place on the site and a nuclear reactor was later developed there.
16 Retrieved from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haverton_Hill> and âFurness Shipbuilding Coâ from Graceâs Guide to British Industrial History (<http://gracesguide.co.uk/Furness_Shipbuilding_Co>). The yard was part of the Furness, Withy and Co shipbuilding empire based at Hartlepool and built colliers, tramps, deep-sea tankers, diesel-electric ships (the first in the North Sea), whaling vessels, and twin-funnelled passenger/cargo liners.
17 See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tees_Transporter_Bridge>. It is one of only three in Britain.
18 The BBC programme was in the third series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (2002).
19 Whitaker, âGrowing up in Port Clarenceâ.
20 The 2011 Census gave the High Clarence population as 773.
21 Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1958.
22 Catherine Cookson received an OBE in 1985 and was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. On her death, she left most of her fortune to charity.
23 Ellen Wilkinson, The Town That Was Murdered (Victor Gollancz, 1939).
24 Geoff Miller, âThe Feast of St Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarneâ, St Nicholasâ Cathedral, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, November 2000.
25 Thomas Ward, Gazette Live, <http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/>, April 2012.
26 Information in the following sections is drawn from a number of reports, including the social entrepreneur research reports and articles, and from the IBVM Sistersâ reports and personal interviews. See also Jeanne Hinton, âLaying Ghosts in Teessideâ in Hinton, Changing Churches: Building Bridges in Local Mission (Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, 2002), pp. 72â79.
27 Ofsted report for High Clarence Primary School, October 2013, <https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/files/2278533/urn/111523.pdf>.
28 Lucy Richardson, The Northern Echo, 5 December 2013.
29 <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-17431427>.
30 Evening Gazette, June/August 1986.
31 Cited in âToxic Wasteâ, The Economist, October 2000, p. 41.
32 The main employers at this time were the Bell Brothers, Clarence Iron Works, The Salt Union Ltd, United Alkali Company Ltd, Anderston Foundry Company, the Cement Works at Haverton Hill, and The Coal Distribution Company at Port Clarence.
33 Margaret Hebblethwaite (ed.), The Living Spirit: Prayers and Readings for the Christian Year (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), p. 194.
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