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Billingham history
Early centuries
A clue to Billingham’s early origins is the prominent Anglo-Saxon tower of St Cuthbert’s Parish Church. The tower was built c. AD 1000, but elements of a late-7th/early-8th-century nave also remain.
Chemical industry and ICI
In 1917, Billingham was chosen to be the site of a new chemical works supplying ammonia for the war. The Brunner Mond Company took over the site, and converted it to manufacture fertilisers. In 1926, Imperial Chemical Industries merged with three other chemical companies to form ICI. ICI no longer operates in Billingham, having sold many of its businesses in the 1990s.
Anhydrite Mine
In 1983, NIREX announced a proposal to use the disused anhydrite mine as a site for the disposal of intermediate level nuclear waste. There was a certain amount of opposition to this, led by Billingham Against Nuclear Dumping (BAND) In 1985, in 1985, the plans were dropped. In 2007, a petition of 3,200 signatures against the mine’s opening was presented to the local authority. In March 2011, Stockton Council’s planning committee accepted an application from NPL Waste Management to reopen the mine for disposal of hazardous waste.
Politics
Billingham had its own urban district council which built the Billingham Forum, Kennedy Gardens and Billingham Golf Club (the UK’s first municipally-owned club) Billingham’s last mayor was Octavious Evitts in 1952. It was included into the County Borough of Teesside, in 1968.
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