Bell Brothers only established a few terraces of housing in East Cleveland when developing ironstone mines there and some of those were only temporary wooden huts, such as 'Bell's Huts' at Carlin How (NZ 707190) which managed a life of about 70 years. Two terraces of brick-built 'two up two down' houses are still inhabited in the same village dating from about 1872. One is Steavenson Street, the other Dixon St., named after, respectively, Addison Langhorn Steavenson (1835-1913), the company's chief mining engineer, and David Watson Dixon (d.1920), the company's chief mines manager in Cleveland.
Certainly the other companies active in local mining during the latter half of the nineteenth century (e.g. Pease, Bolckow & Vaughan, Loftus Iron Co.) named associated streets after their own people or local landowner/lessor.
However, when Carlin How was expanded about 1910 to cope with the start of steel making at Skinningrove Works, the days of the paternal company were about over and the housing was built by outsiders. Consequently Wood Street was named after the builder; Gladstone Street after the earlier Liberal premier and Coronation Street was built in 1911.
Were the streets at Bowburn given names with company connections by Bell Brothers about 1905 a throw back to the past? or an attempt to show independence by the company, having celebrated its Golden Jubilee in 1894 then having been acquired by Dorman Long & Co. in 1899.
Regards, Simon.
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