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England's youngest major town, incorporated as a municipal borough only in 1853 after its creation from scratch as a planned industrial centre — an entirely deliberate act of Victorian commercial will, built on the banks of the Tees to export the coal of the Durham coalfields and, subsequently, to smelt and roll the iron and steel that helped build the world's railways, bridges, and ships. The Transporter Bridge — completed in 1911, one of only six such gondola-carrying bridges left in the world...