I was in Middlesbrough in february 2022. It is still in a poor state. The poverty is palpable. The people gave up on the place and themselves. It is so depressing. And Brexit will make it worse.
MIDDLESBROUGH, STOCKTON, BILLINGHAM, DARLINGTON, JESMOND, NEWCASTLE, YORK & YARM - OUR UNUSUAL NEIGHBOURS AND LOCAL HISTORY IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND Most people living in the North of England think they know their neighbours and local history but how would you know your neighbour worked for MI6? Most who knew the Fairclough family didn’t have a clue that from the seventies Bill Fairclough was a secret agent (MI6 codename JJ) working for various intelligence agencies. What’s more they had no idea he was following in his parents’ footsteps. Bill's parents met during the Second World War when his father, ostensibly working for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), worked secretly on creating bombs to wipe out the Nazi's industrial hinterland. In 1941 in Yarm Richard married Margaret Hawxwell, a local lass from Middlesbrough. After the war in Europe ended in May 1945, Dr Richard Alan Fairclough continued to work for British Intelligence (MI1). Not long after retiring from ICI in the seventies, Richard Fairclough opened and ran an antiquarian book shop business in Yarm until his death in 1987. The book shop was a bit of an enigma as it was also a haunt for spooks. When not gated at St Peter’s School, York Bill Fairclough spent most of his childhood and early teens in the North East of England. As a child in the fifties he was educated at Red House School in Norton. He lived in Billingham and then in a vast white house (once the home of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley) in Norton Green overlooking the duck pond. In Bill’s teens, the Faircloughs lived in Middleton St George and later in Yarm. He also lived in flats he rented near nightclubs he helped run during the late sixties and early seventies in Portrack, Stockton-on-Tees and Jesmond in Newcastle upon Tyne. Conveniently for him they were near the offices of the firm of Chartered Accountants (now PwC) he worked for in Middlesbrough and Newcastle upon Tyne. So if you lived, worked or visited any of these places you may well have unwittingly encountered this “spooky” family, been their neighbours or inhabited the houses they lived in. A quick web-search will even disclose some of the addresses where they lived. Mind you, if you live in any of them now, best sweep them for bugs! Details of where the Faircloughs lived and worked are given in most of Bill Fairclough’s bios on the web such as can be found at everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/bill-fairclough. If you were as fascinated as we were, you can also read the raw fact based thriller Beyond Enkription, the first stand-alone novel to be released in The Burlington Files series (theburlingtonfiles.org/#/reviews). It’s a memorable and distinctively different noir espionage thriller based on his and his family’s experiences in 1974.
@@loko8187 not on the scale and volume that Middlesbrough has...sadly it's a shithole..lived there 20 years from 2000 and it got steadily worse..it's a suppressive town with poverty, lack of opportunity and a big drug problem that suffocates
What’s your point every working class town regenerates, it’s just our council are clueless corrupt chancers so we are skint get over it , it looks better in drizzle.
amusing choice of music
The great place we call home❤️💯
It's actually nice to see a bit of dilapidation which is quite rare nowadays. Appreciate it boys and girls; won't be there forever.
Beautiful town. Good video and keep going 👍
I live there to I love the football chants aswell I wouldn’t call anywhere else home except there
@@yourlocalweirdo4956 Nice, enjoy it.
I lived there for 3 month i love the town i really planning to go back and live there
Gotta love boro though. Not the nicest place to look at but still amazing place to live
Boro's history is the amazing part, it's just sad to see the town now, compared to then, when we had industry, & built the world basically.
SteveWheels couldn't agree more mate. Still hopefully area will be better soon
This needs updating, I live on Garnet Street - my flat is in this :) they have knocked more down now
Are these under the regeneration programs, are these getting knock down
Home sweet home
Are these still up?
Is the 'Bongo Club' still open???
I was in Middlesbrough in february 2022. It is still in a poor state. The poverty is palpable. The people gave up on the place and themselves. It is so depressing. And Brexit will make it worse.
MIDDLESBROUGH, STOCKTON, BILLINGHAM, DARLINGTON, JESMOND, NEWCASTLE, YORK & YARM - OUR UNUSUAL NEIGHBOURS AND LOCAL HISTORY IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND
Most people living in the North of England think they know their neighbours and local history but how would you know your neighbour worked for MI6? Most who knew the Fairclough family didn’t have a clue that from the seventies Bill Fairclough was a secret agent (MI6 codename JJ) working for various intelligence agencies. What’s more they had no idea he was following in his parents’ footsteps.
Bill's parents met during the Second World War when his father, ostensibly working for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), worked secretly on creating bombs to wipe out the Nazi's industrial hinterland. In 1941 in Yarm Richard married Margaret Hawxwell, a local lass from Middlesbrough. After the war in Europe ended in May 1945, Dr Richard Alan Fairclough continued to work for British Intelligence (MI1).
Not long after retiring from ICI in the seventies, Richard Fairclough opened and ran an antiquarian book shop business in Yarm until his death in 1987. The book shop was a bit of an enigma as it was also a haunt for spooks.
When not gated at St Peter’s School, York Bill Fairclough spent most of his childhood and early teens in the North East of England. As a child in the fifties he was educated at Red House School in Norton. He lived in Billingham and then in a vast white house (once the home of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley) in Norton Green overlooking the duck pond. In Bill’s teens, the Faircloughs lived in Middleton St George and later in Yarm. He also lived in flats he rented near nightclubs he helped run during the late sixties and early seventies in Portrack, Stockton-on-Tees and Jesmond in Newcastle upon Tyne. Conveniently for him they were near the offices of the firm of Chartered Accountants (now PwC) he worked for in Middlesbrough and Newcastle upon Tyne.
So if you lived, worked or visited any of these places you may well have unwittingly encountered this “spooky” family, been their neighbours or inhabited the houses they lived in. A quick web-search will even disclose some of the addresses where they lived. Mind you, if you live in any of them now, best sweep them for bugs!
Details of where the Faircloughs lived and worked are given in most of Bill Fairclough’s bios on the web such as can be found at everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/bill-fairclough. If you were as fascinated as we were, you can also read the raw fact based thriller Beyond Enkription, the first stand-alone novel to be released in The Burlington Files series (theburlingtonfiles.org/#/reviews). It’s a memorable and distinctively different noir espionage thriller based on his and his family’s experiences in 1974.
Rough
Extremely rough indeed.
its not bad is it.
You could do this in any town or city in the country. Every place has a run down area.
Yes but every estate pretty much in Middlesbrough has a place similar to this.
@@loko8187 not on the scale and volume that Middlesbrough has...sadly it's a shithole..lived there 20 years from 2000 and it got steadily worse..it's a suppressive town with poverty, lack of opportunity and a big drug problem that suffocates
i expect property to be cheap especially after you get DEGEL'd if ya know what I mean :)
Well it’s starting to improve.
All of the remaining houses in Gresham have now been demolished, to make room for new homes 🙂
Shame the new homes are soooo ugly
How peoples can live in this place?!? I never can't 🤣
What’s your point every working class town regenerates, it’s just our council are clueless corrupt chancers so we are skint get over it , it looks better in drizzle.
boring AF