Editing Redcar (section)

=== Victorian Era ===
As seaside holidays became fashionable in the early 19th century, Redcar's facilities expanded. By 1841, Redcar had 794 inhabitants.<ref name="lewis">{{Cite web |title=Raydon – Redditch Pages 645–652 A Topographical Dictionary of England. Originally published by S Lewis, London, 1848. |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/north/vol2/pp371-383 |access-date=13 July 2020 |website=British History Online |archive-date=13 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200713201732/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/north/vol2/pp371-383 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1846, work was completed on the Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway and the presently named {{rws|Redcar Central}} station, created to attract tourism and trade.<ref name="NERA+WiNEE">{{Cite web |title=The Stockton and Darlington Railway |url=http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/m.h.ellison/nera/october_tour_2000.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717191541/http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/m.h.ellison/nera/october_tour_2000.htm |archive-date=17 July 2011 |access-date=16 April 2011 |publisher=Newcastle University}}; {{cite web|title=Railways and Waggonways in Cleveland |work=Waggonways in North East England |access-date=21 June 2012 |url=http://sites.google.com/site/waggonways/railways-cleveland |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120427192802/http://sites.google.com/site/waggonways/railways-cleveland |archive-date=27 April 2012  }}</ref><ref name="UoN:TSDR">{{Cite web |last=Ellison |first=M.&nbsp;H. |title=The Stockton and Darlington Railway |url=http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/m.h.ellison/nera/october_tour_2000.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717191541/http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/m.h.ellison/nera/october_tour_2000.htm |archive-date=17 July 2011 |access-date=27 May 2008 |publisher=Newcastle University}}</ref>

Redcar's population expansion corresponded with Middlesbrough's, with the discovery in 1850 of [[iron ore]] in the [[Eston Nab|Eston area]] of [[Cleveland Hills]].<ref name="R:PaP" /> Redcar prospered as a seaside town drawing tourists attracted by eight miles of sands stretching from [[South Gare]] to [[Saltburn-by-the-Sea]].

Plans for a pier were drawn up in 1866, but lay dormant until prompted by the announcement of plans to build a pier at [[Coatham]] in 1871.<ref name="R:PaP">{{Cite web |title=People & Places |url=http://www.redcar.org/index.asp?ItemID=64&mid=88&incid=20 |access-date=5 August 2009 |website=redcar.org}}{{Dead link|date=March 2017}}</ref><ref name="GL:EoPS">{{Cite web |last=Delplanque |first=Paul |date=31 October 2008 |title=The End of the Pier Show |url=http://rememberwhen.gazettelive.co.uk/2008/10/the-end-of-the-pier-show.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100415152443/http://rememberwhen.gazettelive.co.uk/2008/10/the-end-of-the-pier-show.html |archive-date=15 April 2010 |access-date=9 June 2009 |website=Gazette Live – Remember When |publisher=Evening Gazette}}</ref> [[Coatham Pier]] was wrecked before it was completed when two sailing ships were driven through it in a storm. It had to be shortened because of the cost of repairs and was re-opened with an entrance with two [[kiosk]]s and a [[Roller Skating|roller-skating]] rink on the Redcar side, and a [[bandstand]] halfway along its length.

[[Redcar Racecourse]] was created in 1875. [[Redcar Pier]], another pier as well as Coatham Pier, was built in the late 1870s. In October 1880 the [[brig]] ''Luna'' caused £1,000 worth of damage to this pier. In New Year's Eve 1885 ''SS Cochrane'' demolished the landing stage.<ref name="R:PaP" /> and in 1897 the [[schooner]] ''Amarant'' went through the pier. A year later, its head and bandstand burned down.<ref name="R:PaP" />

In October 1898 the Coatham Pier was almost wrecked when the [[barque]] ''Birger'' struck it and the pier was thereafter allowed to disintegrate. An [[anchor]] from the ''Birger'' can be seen on the sea front pavement close to the [[Zetland (lifeboat)|Zetland Lifeboat Museum]].

In 1907 a [[pavilion]] [[ballroom]] was built on Redcar Pier behind the entrance kiosks and in 1928 it was extended.<ref name="GL:EoPS" /> A glass house for concerts was added to the remains of Coatham Pier's entrance. The presently named {{rws|Redcar East}} railway station was built in 1929.

In 1929 Coatham Pier's glasshouse was replaced by the New Pavilion theatre. After the war, comedian and entertainer [[Larry Grayson]] coined his catchphrase "Shut that Door!" while performing there, since the stage door was open to the cold North Sea breeze.<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 August 2017 |title=this is Redcar & Cleveland History of the Regent Cinema |url=http://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/rcbcweb.nsf/web+full+list/8a26ebe161477069802579f20040d9ae |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170210045526/http://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/rcbcweb.nsf/web+full+list/8a26ebe161477069802579f20040d9ae |archive-date=10 February 2017 |access-date=5 December 2016 |website=Redcar-cleveland.gov.uk |df=dmy-all}}</ref>