By David Taylor (auth.)
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This was not a wise appointment. ’32 Following further ‘well founded’ complaints against him, including his refusal to obey orders, he was ‘forthwith dismissed’ on 1 March 1850. Such was the concern of the Improvement Commissioners with the lack of discipline that it was decided that in future ‘the Police Officers be placed under the immediate control and superintendence of the Surveyor’. 33 The earliest policemen in Middlesbrough, as in many other towns, came and went with stunning rapidity. Little is known of the development of small forces in the early Victorian period, but, on the surface at least, there is a sharp contrast between the experience of industrial Middlesbrough and the agricultural market town of Horncastle.
The situation in Middlesbrough was more dramatic. 12 The purpose of the act was straightforward: to create a well-ordered and well-regulated town within the powers granted by parliament. Through the introduction of ‘better paving, lighting, watching, cleansing and otherwise improving the Streets, Lanes, public Passages and Places’ all ‘Obstructions, Nuisances and annoyances’ within the town were to be removed. This was a recipe for physical and moral improvement. 13 Many of these were concerned with the regulation of daily trade.
The town’s population was characterised by a number of distinctive features. First, from its earliest days there was a significant element of long-distance migration to the town, which stands in contrast to patterns of migration to other towns in the country. 9 The contrast is even more striking when one considers the evidence relating to the predominantly young, unmarried lodger population of the town. Two-thirds came from outside Yorkshire in 1841 and almost 80 per cent from outside the North Riding of Yorkshire and Durham in 1871.
