Middlesbrough Amateur Boating Club

1866
Middlesbrough Amateur Rowing Club appear on the River Tees, their boathouse being some 3 miles downstream in the Newport area of that town. At this time the lowest river crossing is at Stockton Bridge - now the site of the present Victoria Bridge at Stockton. Middlesbrough ARC and Tees ARC regularly race each other on the Tees. The Stockton course being from Thornaby Wood to the Tees Boathouse, a distance of about one mile whilst the Middlesbrough course is over a similar distance on Billingham Reach. Old programmes in the Tees archives indicate that these were well attended events.