Redcar

Redcar occupies a low-lying site by the sea; the second element of its name is from Old Norse kjarr, meaning 'marsh', and the first may be either Old English (Anglo-Saxon) rēad meaning 'red' or OE hrēod 'reed'.{{Cite web|last=Simpson|first=David|year=2009|title=Yorkshire Place-Names P to S|url=http://www.yorkshire-england.co.uk/PlaceNameMeaningsPtoS.html|access-date=31 August 2010|website=Yorkshire|archive-date=14 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100414060038/http://www.yorkshire-england.co.uk/PlaceNameMeaningsPtoS.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |last=Fiona |date=29 April 2009 |title=History of Redcar |url=http://ts10.gazettelive.co.uk/communities/history/history-of-redcar.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130420074856/http://ts10.gazettelive.co.uk/communities/history/history-of-redcar.html |archive-date=20 April 2013 |access-date=9 June 2009 |website=Gazette Live}} The town originated as a fishing hamlet in the 14th century, trading with the larger adjacent hamlet of Coatham. Until the mid-19th century it was within the parish of Marske-by-the-Sea – mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.{{cn|date=February 2025}}

{{main|Zetland (lifeboat)}}

Numerous ships have foundered off the Redcar coastline and many of their wrecks still exist.{{Cite web |title=Redcar Rocks |url=http://www.divenorway.com/wrecks_pages/northseawrecks/redcarrocks.htm |access-date=23 November 2015 |website=Dive Norway |archive-date=23 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123101417/http://www.divenorway.com/wrecks_pages/northseawrecks/redcarrocks.htm |url-status=live }} The Zetland is the world's oldest surviving lifeboat. It was built by Henry Greathead of South Shields and is housed in a volunteer-led sea-front museum.{{Cite web |date=16 March 2015 |title=The Zetland Lifeboat Museum enters a new era |url=http://rnli.org/NewsCentre/Pages/The-Zetland-Lifeboat-Museum-enters-a-new-era.aspx |access-date=3 August 2015 |publisher=RNLI |archive-date=10 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150710071514/http://rnli.org/NewsCentre/Pages/The-Zetland-Lifeboat-Museum-enters-a-new-era.aspx |url-status=live }} The lifeboat was first stationed at Redcar in 1802.{{Cite web |title=Welcome – Zetland Lifeboat Museum and Redcar Heritage Centre |url=http://www.zetlandlifeboat.co.uk/ |access-date=3 August 2015 |publisher=Zetland Lifeboat Museum and Redcar Heritage Centre |archive-date=18 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018124407/http://www.zetlandlifeboat.co.uk/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |date=6 April 2019 |title=World's oldest surviving lifeboat returns to Redcar home |publisher=BBC}}

As seaside holidays became fashionable in the early 19th century, Redcar's facilities expanded. By 1841, Redcar had 794 inhabitants.{{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 }} 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.{{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 }}{{Cite web |last=Ellison |first=M. 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}}

Redcar's population expansion corresponded with Middlesbrough's, with the discovery in 1850 of iron ore in the Eston area of Cleveland Hills. 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.{{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}}{{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}} 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 kiosks and a 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. and in 1897 the schooner Amarant went through the pier. A year later, its head and bandstand burned down.

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 Museum.

In 1907 a pavilion ballroom was built on Redcar Pier behind the entrance kiosks and in 1928 it was extended. 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.{{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}}

Redcar Pier was deliberately breached (sectioned) in 1940 to prevent its use by enemy invasion forces. As a result of sectioning, damage by a mine explosion and deterioration it was never reconnected and instead allowed to become even more dilapidated.{{Cite web |date=13 August 2003 |title=Youngsters delve deep to help uncover secrets of the sea |url=http://archive.thenorthernecho.co.uk/2003/8/13/80909.html |access-date=9 June 2009 |website=The Northern Echo |archive-date=12 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212200133/http://www.newsquest.co.uk/ |url-status=live }}

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In 1964 the New Pavilion Theatre was transformed into the Regent Cinema. The Redcar Pier pavilion continued in use after the war but storm damage led to it being declared unsafe and it was demolished in 1980–1981.

{{main|Teesside Steelworks}}{{multiple images|total_width=300|perrow=1|image1=Redcar Steel Works (49497793713).jpg|image2= Coatham Sands (geograph 7407874).jpg |footer=The steelworks in 2020 and 2023}}

The town's main employers in the post-war era were the nearby Teesside Steelworks at Warrenby, founded by Dorman Long in 1917, and the ICI Wilton chemical works. The steel produced at Dorman Long was used to build the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Tyne Bridge, Auckland Harbour Bridge and many others. Both the Warrenby and Lackenby sites became part of Tata Steel when Corus was taken over in 2007, but continued to trade under the Corus name until at least February 2008. SSI bought the plant from Tata Steel in February 2011, for £320 million.

After a two-year hiatus following the mothballing of the plant in February 2010, steel was once again being made at Redcar. The Thai owners of the former Corus Plant at Lackenby, Sahaviriya Steel Industries (SSI), re-ignited the blast furnace, one of the largest in Europe, on 15 April 2012.{{Cite web|date=5 April 2012|title=Blast furnace at former Corus Redcar steel plant relit|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-17719747|access-date=15 April 2012|website=BBC News|publisher=BBC|archive-date=15 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415181702/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-17719747|url-status=live}}; {{cite web|year=2011|title=Welcome to the British Steel Collection|url=http://www.britishsteelcollection.org.uk/|access-date=13 September 2011|work=British Steel Collection|archive-date=13 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110913063737/http://www.britishsteelcollection.org.uk/|url-status=live}}

On 18 September 2015, production was paused due to the decline in steel prices.{{Cite web|date=18 September 2015|title=SSI Redcar steel plant production 'paused'|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-34289766|access-date=18 September 2015|website=BBC News|publisher=BBC|archive-date=18 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150918184850/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-34289766|url-status=live}} On 28 September 2015, the plant was "mothballed" amid poor steel trading conditions across the world and a drop in steel prices.{{Cite web|date=28 September 2015|title=SSI Redcar steel plant mothballed, costing 1,700 jobs|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34377756|access-date=28 September 2015|website=BBC News|publisher=BBC|archive-date=28 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928184820/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34377756|url-status=live}} On 2 October, the owner of the site, SSI UK, entered liquidation. On 12 October 2015 the administrator announced that there was no realistic prospect of finding a buyer and the ovens would be extinguished.

Wards periodically change, as of 2018 the town is made up of Coatham, Dormanstown, Kirkleatham, Newcomen, West Dyke, Wheatlands and Zetland.{{cite web|url=https://www.lgbce.org.uk/media/local-electoral-arrangements-finalised-for-redcar-and-cleveland|title=Local electoral arrangements finalised for Redcar and Cleveland|access-date=19 July 2021|archive-date=19 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210719115529/https://www.lgbce.org.uk/media/local-electoral-arrangements-finalised-for-redcar-and-cleveland|url-status=live}} Redcar is made up of areas that do not lend their name to a ward: Warrenby, Lakes Estate, Redcar East, The Ings, Ings Farm, Mickledales and Westfield.

Redcar was formerly a township and chapelry in the parishes of Marske and Upleatham.{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1086|title=History of Redcar, in Redcar and Cleveland and North Riding|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=8 December 2023|archive-date=8 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231208154922/https://visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1086|url-status=live}} In 1866, Redcar became a separate civil parish. A district in Redcar's name formed in 1885. Three years after the district was formed, the centuries-old Yorkshire authority was replaced by the North Riding of Yorkshire county council. The district became an urban district in 1894.{{cite web|url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10465539|title=Redcar Tn/CP|access-date=1 August 2021|archive-date=2 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802115042/https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10465539|url-status=live}}

The [[County Borough of Teesside is shown in red. Previous authorities are shown with dotted lines.|thumb]]

The settlement's town charter occurred in 1922, the district was able to be styled as a municipal borough and the settlement as a town. On 1 April 1974 the parish was abolished and merged with Teesside and Marske.{{cite web|url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/cleveland.html|title=Cleveland Registration District|publisher=UKBMDe|accessdate=8 December 2023|archive-date=8 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231208133424/https://ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/cleveland.html|url-status=live}}

The 1974 reform created the non-metropolitan County of Cleveland, under the Langbaurgh non-metropolitan district. The county was also inserted into the North East England region. After further changes in 1996, the district became a unitary authority called Redcar & Cleveland in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, the county straddling two regions of England.{{Cite legislation UK|type=si|number=187|si=The Cleveland (Structural Change) Order 1995|accessdate=13 July 2021|year=1995|date=30 January 1995}}

{{Cite legislation UK|type=si|number=1747|si=The Cleveland (Further Provision) Order 1995|accessdate=13 July 2021|year=1995|date=10 July 1995}}

The North East England region was sub-divided into combined authorities. In May 2017, the Tees Valley which includes Redcar, elected its first mayor. Ben Houchen has been Tees Valley Mayor since 2017, winning the inaugural mayoral election in the combined authority. Houchen was re-elected in 2021 and won a third term in 2024.

{{Main|Redcar (UK Parliament constituency)}}

The town of Redcar is within the Redcar parliamentary constituency, which also includes neighbouring South Bank, Eston, Ormesby (part), Nunthorpe (part) and Guisborough.

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The Palace Hub, on the beach front, was built by Redcar and Cleveland Council for the creative and cultural sector of the town. An art gallery and business start up centre are located in the building. The main library is in the Redcar Heart building in the centre of the town and there is a long-standing Redcar Literary Institute, which was founded in 1896.

Redcar is home to the Tuned In! Centre, which opened in 2011 and overlooks the sea front. The multi purpose venue hosts live music as well as creative workshops for young people. The annual event Clubland on the Beach, which showcases dance acts attracting visitors from across the country, has been held at Majuba Road in Redcar for the past three years.

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The town has had several parks built for tourism: Coatham Enclosure, Locke Park, Zetland Park, Lily Park, an Amusement Park with a roller coaster, and a small sea front park known locally as Titty Bottle Park. The Amusement Park near the railway closed decades ago, and Titty Bottle Park was absorbed into the redeveloped sea front around Redcar Beacon.

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At the west end of High Street is a Grade II listed clock tower,{{Cite web|title=Redcar Town Clock|url=http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/themarsh/page76.phtml|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725144623/http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/themarsh/page76.phtml|archive-date=25 July 2008|access-date=27 May 2008|website=Communigate}}

a memorial to King Edward VII.

Construction of the Redcar Beacon started in 2011.{{Cite web|date=24 November 2010|title=Plans for Redcar's vertical pier approved|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-11834540|access-date=21 September 2011|website=BBC News|publisher=BBC|archive-date=20 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720034231/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-11834540|url-status=live}}

In 2013, when the building had been completed, it was nominated for the Building Design Carbuncle Cup for worst new building. It came third in the whole of the UK.{{Cite web|last=Smith|first=Oliver|date=19 August 2013|title=Britain's ugliest new buildings named|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/10252696/Britains-ugliest-new-buildings-named.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/10252696/Britains-ugliest-new-buildings-named.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=19 August 2014|website=Daily Telegraph}}{{cbignore}} In December 2015, the Beacon was damaged by winds from Storm Desmond, with several large pieces of panelling falling onto the beach below. It was also damaged in winter 2016, where a panel from the top fell off in a storm.{{Cite web|date=5 December 2015|title=Storm Desmond hits UK|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-35015243|access-date=5 December 2015|website=BBC News|publisher=BBC|archive-date=6 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151206011344/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-35015243|url-status=live}}

File:The Zetland Lifeboat Museum and Lookout (geograph 2384422).jpg|Zetland Lifeboat Museum, Esplanade

File:Turner's Hospital, Kirkleatham (geograph 5898821).jpg|Turner's Hospital, Kirkleatham

File:CoathamHotel.JPG|Former Coatham Hotel

There are 23 listed buildings in Redcar.{{Cite web|title=Conservation and Listed Buildings – Redcar|url=http://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/main.nsf/Web+Full+List/DB43E9DE93DD865D80256C14004AEDEA?OpenDocument|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111014154414/https://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/main.nsf/Web+Full+List/DB43E9DE93DD865D80256C14004AEDEA?OpenDocument|archive-date=14 October 2011|access-date=10 June 2009|publisher=Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council|df=dmy-all}} The Grade I Listed Sir William Turner's Hospital in Kirkleatham was built between 1674–1676 and listed on the 14 June 1952.{{NHLE|num=1310786|desc=Sir William Turner's Hospital|accessdate=18 July 2021}}

On the Esplanade is the Grade II-Listed Zetland Lifeboat Museum{{Cite web|title=Royal National Lifeboat Institute Zetland Lifeboat Museum and Attached Wall, Redcar|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-60297-royal-national-lifeboat-institute-zetland|access-date=17 June 2012|website=British Listed Buildings|archive-date=3 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203002444/http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-60297-royal-national-lifeboat-institute-zetland|url-status=live}} housing the world's oldest lifeboat, Zetland.

The Victorian, former Coatham Hotel stands on Newcomen Terrace sea front.{{Cite web|title=The Coatham Hotel 1905|url=http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/themarsh/page72.phtml|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724212150/http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/themarsh/page72.phtml|archive-date=24 July 2008|access-date=27 May 2008|website=Communigate}}; {{cite web|url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/135603|first=Mick|last=Garratt|title=Former Coatham Hotel|access-date=27 May 2008|work=Geograph|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080428002953/http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/135603|archive-date=28 April 2008}}{{Cite web|title=Town Clock|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-60303-town-clock-redcar|access-date=17 June 2012|website=British Listed Buildings}} The ballroom of the hotel was home to the Redcar Jazz Club, a venue for bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

In the south-east of Redcar is an aircraft listening post. This was built in 1916, during the First World War, as part of a regional defence system to give early warning of approaching aircraft, principally Zeppelins. It is an example of an acoustic mirror, similar to others found along the east coast of Britain. The mirror was used up until the invention of radar.

It is now a Grade II listed building.{{Cite web|last=Grantham|first=Andrew|title=Redcar sound mirror|url=http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/soundmirrors/locations/redcar/|access-date=27 May 2008|website=Sound mirrors|archive-date=6 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006233430/http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/soundmirrors/locations/redcar/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|title=Listening Post 330 Metres of Wheatlands Farmhouse, Redcar|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-60348-listening-post-330-metres-of-wheatlands-f|access-date=17 June 2012|website=British Listed Buildings|archive-date=3 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203003854/http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-60348-listening-post-330-metres-of-wheatlands-f|url-status=live}}

{{Main|Demographics of Tees Valley}}

Catholic churches

In 1874, four furnaces were built at the nearby Warrenby ironworks, which attracted a lot of Irish Catholic workers. So, a small church dedicated to the Sacred Heart was built to welcome Redcar's Catholics to Mass. In the same year, a school-chapel was also built, which later became a Methodist chapel. The present Sacred Heart church, was built, in the fully-developed Gothic Revival style, soon afterwards. It opened in 1914.TAKING STOCK Catholic Churches of England & Wales [https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/redcar-sacred-heart/]

The architect Frank Spinks was commissioned to build St Augustine's church for the eastern part of the town, in 1937. These parishes were followed by St William's church in Dormanstown and St Alban's church, which was built amongst the newer housing estates of the 1960s and 70s.

With declining congregations, the number of parishes was reduced. In 2011, St Alban’s closed, and in 2012, St William’s also closed.  The new parish of Blessed Nicholas Postgate was formed through the union of the parishes of the Sacred Heart and St Augustine, in 2015. Five years later, in 2020, the nearby Saltburn parish of St Bede’s Church, was also absorbed into the Parish of Blessed Nicholas Postgate.Middlesbrough Diocese: Parish of Blessed Nicholas Postgate [https://middlesbrough-diocese.org.uk/parishes/sacred-heart-redcar/]

Church of England

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To the east of Redcar there is the Anglican

Church of St Peter, designed by Ignatius Bonomi and built 1822–29 on land given by Lord Dundas. It is a grade II* listed building.

{{cite web |title=Church of St Peter, Redcar |url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-60340-church-of-st-peter-redcar |access-date=17 July 2012 |website=British Listed Buildings}} The foundation stone was laid by Lady Turner of Kirkleatham in 1823. Formerly, it was part of Marske Parish, but became an independent parish in 1867.{{cite web |title=History |url=https://www.stpeterschurchredcar.co.uk/church-history |access-date=13 July 2020 |website=St Peter's Church, Redcar |archive-date=13 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200713201202/https://www.stpeterschurchredcar.co.uk/church-history |url-status=live }} It has a window commemorating local benefactor Sir William Turner.

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Redcar has two railway stations, on the Tees Valley line, with trains operated by Northern and TransPennine Express, namely Redcar Central and Redcar East. A third station Redcar British Steel, which closed in December 2019, served the steelworks.{{Cite web |title=Bishop Auckland and Darlington to Middlesbrough and Saltburn Timetable |url=https://d2cf7kiw5xizhy.cloudfront.net/images/timetables/bucket/bishop-auckland-and-darlington-to-middlesbrough-and-saltburn-2699.pdf |access-date=22 November 2019 |website=Northern |archive-date=23 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191123004349/https://d2cf7kiw5xizhy.cloudfront.net/images/timetables/bucket/bishop-auckland-and-darlington-to-middlesbrough-and-saltburn-2699.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |title=Redcar British Steel Station Information |url=https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/component/rail/?view=station&id=393#station-info |access-date=22 November 2019 |website=Northern |archive-date=9 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191209103421/https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/component/rail/?view=station&id=393#station-info |url-status=dead }}

The main roads through the town are the A1085 and the A1042, with the A174 bypassing. Redcar is served primarily by Arriva North East buses, connecting Redcar with the surrounding towns and villages.

The Pangea North and CANTAT-3 submarine telecommunication cables both come ashore between Redcar and Marske-by-the-Sea.{{Cite web |last=Twigg |first=Chris |date=9 October 2008 |title=CANTAT-3 and Pangea North Landing Point |url=http://www.hidden-teesside.co.uk/2008/10/09/cantat-3-and-pangea-north-landing-point/ |access-date=17 June 2012 |website=Hidden Teesside |archive-date=16 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120416051359/http://www.hidden-teesside.co.uk/2008/10/09/cantat-3-and-pangea-north-landing-point/ |url-status=live }}

{{see also|List of schools in Redcar and Cleveland}}

The town's further education college is Redcar & Cleveland College.

The town's secondary schools are: Outwood Academy Redcar, Sacred Heart Catholic Secondary and Rye Hills Academy.

There are eleven primary schools in Redcar: Coatham, Dormanstown, Green Gates, Ings Farm, John E Batty, Lakes, Newcomen, Riverdale, St Benedict's, Wheatlands and Zetland.

Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC North East and Cumbria and ITV Tyne Tees, the local television station TalkTeesside also broadcasts to the area. Television signals are received from the Bilsdale TV transmitter.{{cite web|url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Bilsdale|title=Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter|date=1 May 2004|website=UK Free TV|accessdate=7 January 2024|archive-date=3 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230903034040/https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Bilsdale|url-status=live}}

Local radio stations are BBC Radio Tees, Heart North East, Capital North East, Smooth North East, Greatest Hits Radio Teesside, and Zetland FM, a community based radio station which broadcast from its studios on Newcomen Terrace in the town.{{cite web|url=https://www.zetlandfm.co.uk/about-us|title=About Zetland FM|accessdate=7 January 2024|archive-date=19 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231219183331/https://www.zetlandfm.co.uk/about-us|url-status=live}}

The town is served by the local newspapers, East Cleveland Herald & Post which is published by the TeessideLive.{{cite web|url=https://www.britishpapers.co.uk/england-ne/east-cleveland-herald-post/|title=East Cleveland Herald & Post|date=15 July 2013|website=British Papers|accessdate=7 January 2024|archive-date=7 January 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240107030550/https://www.britishpapers.co.uk/england-ne/east-cleveland-herald-post/|url-status=live}} The Northern Echo also covers the area.{{cite web|url=https://www.britishpapers.co.uk/england-ne/northern-echo/|title=The Northern Echo|date=12 May 2014|website=British Papers|accessdate=7 January 2024|archive-date=28 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231028181312/https://www.britishpapers.co.uk/england-ne/northern-echo/|url-status=live}}

In Coatham is Cleveland Golf Club, the first golf club to be formed in Yorkshire. It was established in 1887 and is a links course.{{cite news|url=https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/local-news/cleveland-golf-clubs-green-light-3677650|title=Cleveland Golf Club's green light for 'mound'|access-date=3 September 2012|date=26 January 2021|archive-date=3 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210903143409/https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/local-news/cleveland-golf-clubs-green-light-3677650|url-status=live}} Also in Coatham is Redcar Cricket Club, which play in the NYSD league,{{Cite web |title=Redcar Cricket Club – RCC |url=http://redcar.play-cricket.com/home/home.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131132552/http://redcar.play-cricket.com/home/home.asp |archive-date=31 January 2013 |access-date=21 June 2012 |website=Play-Cricket}} and Redcar Running Club.{{Cite web |title=Welcome to Redcar Running Club |url=http://www.redcarrunningclub.co.uk/ |access-date=21 June 2012 |website=Redcar Running Club |archive-date=1 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501163209/http://www.redcarrunningclub.co.uk/ |url-status=live }}

In association football, Redcar Athletic currently compete in the {{English football updater|RedcarAt}} while Redcar Town play in {{English football updater|RedcarTo}}. Redcar Rugby Union Football club play at Mackinlay Park.{{Cite web |title=Redcar Rugby Union Football Club |url=http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/redcar/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729140422/http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/redcar/ |archive-date=29 July 2012 |access-date=21 June 2012 |website=Pitchero}}

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Redcar Racecourse is one of nine thoroughbred horse racecourses in Yorkshire. There is also a motorcycle speedway racing team, the Redcar Bears racing in the SGB Championship. The race track is at the South Tees Motorsport Park in Southbank Street, South Bank and is unusual in that one bend is more highly banked than the other.{{Cite web |year=2012 |title=Visitor Guide 2012.pdf |url=http://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/rcbcweb.nsf/8AF82D6B51043A05802579EC0055BCE4/$FILE/Visitor%20Guide%202012.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203033025/http://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/rcbcweb.nsf/8AF82D6B51043A05802579EC0055BCE4/%24FILE/Visitor%20Guide%202012.pdf |archive-date=3 December 2013 |access-date=23 June 2012}} The team was formerly captained by 1992 World Champion Gary Havelock and was formerly managed by his father Brian.

The town is set to host the 2022 Tour of Britain stage four,

UCI Europe Tour cycling race. The town was previously set to host a stage of the Tour de Yorkshire, the event was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.{{cite web|url=https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/redcar-confirmed-tour-britain-host-23043881.amp|title=Redcar confirmed as Tour of Britain cycling race host town|date=10 February 2022|accessdate=10 February 2022|archive-date=10 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220210003932/https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/redcar-confirmed-tour-britain-host-23043881.amp|url-status=live}}

{{see also|Category:People from Redcar}}

• Gertrude Bell, colonial administrator and contemporary of Lawrence of Arabia spent her youthful years at Red Barns House in Coatham,{{Cite web |last=Proud |first=Keith |date=6 April 2005 |title=Queen of the desert |url=http://www.thepubspy.co.uk/the_north_east/history/echomemories/teesside/205/060405.html |access-date=16 March 2009 |website=The Northern Echo's History Pages}}{{Dead link |date=September 2010 |bot=H3llBot}} which became, for a time, the Red Barns Hotel and a listed building.{{Cite news |last=Yale |first=Pat |date=9 August 2016 |title=Gertrude of Arabia: the great adventurer may finally get her museum |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/aug/09/gertrude-of-arabia-gertrude-bell-home-museum-redcar |access-date=10 August 2016 |archive-date=8 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408211651/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/aug/09/gertrude-of-arabia-gertrude-bell-home-museum-redcar |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Red Barns House and Red Barns Hotel, Redcar |url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-60338-red-barns-house-and-red-barns-hotel-redca |access-date=17 June 2012 |website=British Listed Buildings}}
• The surviving negatives of Redcar photographer Alfred Edward Graham (1882–1945) were acquired by Redcar Urban District Council's Library and Museum Committee and are now held by the Redcar and Cleveland Museum Service.{{Cite web |title=Historical Photos |url=http://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/photos.nsf/searchresults/DE2FC5360B61586880256BB80048E17A?OpenDocument |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612124109/http://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/photos.nsf/searchresults/DE2FC5360B61586880256BB80048E17A?OpenDocument |archive-date=12 June 2011 |access-date=15 October 2008 |website=Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council |df=dmy-all}}
• Rex Hunt, governor of the Falkland Islands during the 1982 invasion by Argentina, attended Coatham School.
• The former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam, represented Redcar parliamentary constituency in the House of Commons.{{Cite web |last=Langdon |first=Julia |date=19 August 2005 |title=Obituary: Marjorie Mowlam |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/aug/19/obituaries.northernireland |access-date=9 September 2008 |website=Guardian |archive-date=12 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212150217/http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/aug/19/obituaries.northernireland |url-status=live }}
• Film and television actors Pip Donaghy,{{Cite web |title=Pip Donaghy |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0231904/bio |access-date=4 August 2017 |website=IMDb.com |archive-date=5 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150805140714/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0231904/bio |url-status=live }} June Laverick, and Wendy Hall, and actor/director/producer Robert Porter were all born in Redcar.{{Cite web |title=Place of Birth Search |url=https://us.imdb.com/BornWhere?for=redcar |access-date=27 May 2008 |website=Internet Movie Database}}{{Dead link |date=July 2012}}
• Actor and radio actor Felicity Finch, famous for her part in the Archers BBC Radio 4 drama series, playing Ruth Archer, was born and grew up in Redcar.{{Cite news |last=Robson |first=Dave |date=29 June 2017 |title=Award for Teesside actress 4m people a week listen to |work=Gazette Live |url=https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/four-million-people-listen-every-13258875 |access-date=3 December 2018 |archive-date=3 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203202854/https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/four-million-people-listen-every-13258875 |url-status=live }}
• Actor Anne Reid lived in Redcar as a child and attended John Emmerson Batty School and the White House School.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/nov/22/anne-reid-interview|title=Q&A: Anne Reid|first=Rosanna|last=Greenstreet|date=22 November 2014|accessdate=8 July 2024|work=The Guardian}}
• Singer David Coverdale, lead singer with Deep Purple and Whitesnake lived in Redcar as a youth and worked in the Gentry clothes shop on Coatham Road.{{Cite web |title=David Coverdale |url=http://www.wearsideonline.com/music16.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070127080422/http://www.wearsideonline.com/music16.html |archive-date=27 January 2007 |access-date=27 May 2008 |website=Wearsideonline.com}}
• Roy Chubby Brown, Stand up comedian. In his youth he became homeless and for some time slept in a fishing boat in Redcar.
• Chris Norman, founder member and former lead singer of Smokie was born in Redcar.{{Cite web |title=Chris Norman (I) |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0635463/ |access-date=10 August 2008 |website=IMDb.com |archive-date=13 March 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050313014015/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0635463/ |url-status=live }}
• Pete York, drummer with the Spencer Davis Group and session drummer was born in Redcar.{{Cite web |title=The Spencer Davis Group |url=http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Villa/9500/davis.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804154807/http://geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Villa/9500/davis.htm |archive-date=4 August 2009 |access-date=20 September 2008 |website=geocities.com}}
• Paralympian, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, originally from Wales, lived in Redcar for a number of years with her husband and daughter.{{Cite web |title=Dame Tanni Grey Thompson DBE |url=http://www.creatingexcellence.co.uk/is/tanni.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016055227/http://www.creatingexcellence.co.uk/is/tanni.htm |archive-date=16 October 2008 |access-date=9 August 2008 |website=Creating Excellence}}
• 2011 and 2016 UCI Downhill World Champion Danny Hart was born in and currently lives in Redcar, he is frequently nicknamed "The Redcar Rocket" by commentators.{{Cite web |title=UCI MTB World Championship {{!}} UCI MTB World Championship 2016 {{!}} Val di Sole, Italy |url=http://www.redbull.tv/live/AP-1KRDTX1YN2111/uci-mtb-world-championship |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915011943/http://www.redbull.tv/live/AP-1KRDTX1YN2111/uci-mtb-world-championship |archive-date=15 September 2016 |access-date=14 September 2016 |website=Red Bull TV}}
• David Wheater, former footballer who played as a defender, grew up in Redcar.{{Cite web |last=Taylor |first=Louise |date=21 March 2008 |title=Wheater swaps nights at the bingo for the bright lights of England |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2008/mar/21/newsstory.sport5 |access-date=20 September 2008 |website=The Guardian |archive-date=7 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007002617/http://www.theguardian.com/football/2008/mar/21/newsstory.sport5 |url-status=live }}
• Snooker player Mike Dunn was born in Middlesbrough but lives in Redcar.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}
• Jordan Jones, Rangers FC and Northern Ireland national football team midfielder was born in Redcar.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}
• Hayden Hackney, Middlesbrough F.C. midfielder was born in Redcar
• Dylan Cartlidge, singer and multi-instrumentalist grew up in Redcar

;Atonement

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In 2006, Redcar was used as a location for the film adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel Atonement. The Coatham Hotel, Regent Cinema, a section of Newcomen Terrace and part of the beach were dressed as 1940s Dunkirk. Filming took place across three days in August 2006, with local men playing the soldiers.{{Cite web|last=Hencke|first=David|date=24 May 2006|title=Redcar scrubs up for starring role in film version of Atonement|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/may/24/arts.filmnews|access-date=10 June 2009|website=The Guardian|archive-date=9 February 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080209142848/http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1781627,00.html|url-status=live}}; {{cite web|title=This Month I'm Going Snap Happy on the Atonement Sets|url=http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/redcaratonement/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926225330/http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/redcaratonement/|archive-date=26 September 2007|work=CommuniGate}}{{Cite web|title=Redcar|url=http://ts10.gazettelive.co.uk/2006/11/atonement_pics.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080207161356/http://ts10.gazettelive.co.uk/2006/11/atonement_pics.html|archive-date=7 February 2008|access-date=27 May 2008|website=Gazette Live|publisher=Evening Gazette|location=Teesside}}

;The Secret Millionaire

In 2010, Redcar was featured on the Channel 4 television programme The Secret Millionaire. David Jamilly a humanitarian, philanthropist and self-made millionaire, visited the Redcar community and gave £25,000 to Zoë's Place for a sensory room, £25,000 to Redcar Amateur Boxing Club to start an Olympic fund, and £25,000 to Sid's Place for special counselling.

There was a subsequent visit on 14 May to a screening at Redcar's cinema, attended by the mayor and mayoress along with all the charities and people involved.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}

The feature of the documentary involved the closure of the nearby Corus steelworks as well as the charities. On 9 December 2011, Jamilly opened the new Redcar Education Development centre in Park Avenue, Redcar. The centre provides day care for adults with learning difficulties. He also opened the Redcar Primary Care Hospital on 9 December 2011 and the new Sid's Place on 15 December 2011.

;The Mighty Redcar

The town was filmed for the 2018 BBC television documentary The Mighty Redcar. The four-part series followed young people from Redcar and surrounding towns as they completed their studies and looked for work.{{Cite news|date=6 September 2018|title=The Mighty Redcar: Review – a moving depiction of town's struggles|work=The Northern Echo|url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/16694383.the-mighty-redcar-review-a-moving-depiction-of-towns-struggles/|access-date=14 September 2018|archive-date=14 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180914165418/https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/16694383.the-mighty-redcar-review-a-moving-depiction-of-towns-struggles/|url-status=live}}

• Redcar Academy
• Redcar Rocks
• Roker
• Runswick
• Robin Hood's Bay
• South Gare & Coatham Sands SSSI

{{Reflist|30em}}

{{commons category|Redcar}}

• Tourist information: [https://web.archive.org/web/20180413101837/http://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/rcbcweb.nsf/Web+Full+List/8AF82D6B51043A05802579EC0055BCE4?OpenDocument this is Redcar & Cleveland]
• [http://www.redcar.org/ A Redcar local history site]
• Tides at the River Tees entrance on the [http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast_and_sea/tide_tables/4/185/ BBC] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110414120743/http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast_and_sea/tide_tables/4/185/ |date=14 April 2011 }}, [http://easytide.ukho.gov.uk/EASYTIDE/EasyTide/ShowPrediction.aspx?PortID=0185&PredictionLength=7 Easytide], and [https://www.tidetimes.co.uk/river-tees-entrance-tide-times Tidetimes]
• [https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/@2639563 Sunrise and sunset times] for Redcar.

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