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The date is 1851,
The Middlesbrough Farm has gone.
Instead, we’ve built beside the Tees
A town designed by Joseph Pease.
Two decades since, we were unknown,
But now our little town has grown
Exporting tons of Durham coal,
To more than seven thousand souls.
We’ve dredged the river, made it straight,
We’ve bridged it, used it to create
A little town with sweat and toil
Where once the farmers tilled the soil.
There’s
butchers,
bakers,
tailors,
Inns with beds for homesick sailors,
There’s
brickies,
dockers,
doctors,
Five chapels and the new St Hilda’s,
There’s
joiners,
painters,
millers,
drapers,
A market place and weekly papers,
There’s
railwaymen
A shipyard building brigs and barks,
A new town hall, and seventy pubs,
An Exchange hall and several clubs
Where local businessmen can meet,
A modern school in Stockton Street,
A pottery, a railway yard -
Though life is busy, life is hard,
This Middlesbrough is here to stay,
We’ll face the future, come what may,
We’re going up, not going down,
A Wild West, frontier, gold-rush town !
We’re famous - North, South, East and West -
Our Middlesbrough is just the best !
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