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Hall's a big miss in Boro

Mar 1 2009 Sunday Sun

A CLASSIC example of how successive councils have robbed Middlesbrough of it’s architectural heritage was in the recent copy of Remember When.

Fifty years ago, at a council meeting, the Parks Committee was told the beautiful and historic building known as Marton Hall, built as a home for one of our founding fathers, “should be pulled down before all salvage value is lost through deterioration of the structure”. They were also told the building was “of no wide historic or architectural value”. Philistines, every one of them!

Why did nobody over the years insist that the building was looked after? Why did the huge conservatory with the magnificent banana tree and other specimens from far-off countries and the fountain, full of money thrown in by children, vanish?

Twenty years later, Stockton Council were successful in securing a preservation order on their railway station. Was any such similar attempt made for Marton Hall? I wonder which political party was running the show here 50 years ago. Perhaps someone can let me know?

JOAN McTIGUE, Independent councillor, Middlesbrough.

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