Editing Middlesbrough (section)

===Second World War===
Middlesbrough was the first major British town and industrial target to be bombed during the [[Second World War]]. The steel-making capacity and railways for carrying steel products were obvious targets. The [[Luftwaffe]] first bombed the town on 25 May 1940, when a lone bomber dropped 13 bombs between South Bank Road and the South Steel plant.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 2010 |title=Remembering the Blitz |url=http://rememberwhen.gazettelive.co.uk/2010/09/remembering-the-blitz.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413131651/http://rememberwhen.gazettelive.co.uk/2010/09/remembering-the-blitz.html |archive-date=13 April 2014 |access-date=20 August 2012 |work=Evening Gazette}}</ref> More bombing occurred throughout the course of the war, with the [[Middlesbrough railway station|railway station]] put out of action for two weeks in 1942.<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 2010 |title=Middlesbrough Railway Station bombed 1942 |url=http://rememberwhen.gazettelive.co.uk/2010/04/middlesbrough-railway-station.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519084800/http://rememberwhen.gazettelive.co.uk/2010/04/middlesbrough-railway-station.html |archive-date=19 May 2011 |access-date=14 May 2011 |work=Evening Gazette}}</ref>

By the end of the war more than 200 buildings had been damaged or destroyed in the Middlesbrough area. Areas of early- and mid-Victorian housing were demolished and much of central Middlesbrough was redeveloped. Heavy industry was relocated to areas of land better suited to the needs of modern technology. Middlesbrough itself began to take on a completely different look.<ref>{{Cite web |date=4 August 1942 |title=Middlesbrough 1940s |url=http://www.billmilner.250x.com/mbro40.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202051719/http://www.billmilner.250x.com/mbro40.html |archive-date=2 December 2008 |access-date=4 September 2011 |publisher=Billmilner.250x.com}}</ref>