http://www.stockton.gov.uk/images/generalimgs/placesimgs/regredimgs/queenswayproposal.jpg

The vision is to create an attractive, successful and vibrant shopping hub for the town. As a result, the proposed Masterplan focuses on making improvements to:

1. The overall look and feel of the town centre to make it a more appealing place
2. The shopping offer in the town centre by providing a new 'national' foodstore
3. Paving and street furniture
4. Lighting - making the town centre brighter, more attractive, and safer
5. Landscaping - introducing improved planting into the Town Centre
6. Play facilities - looking at the potential for a new children's play area
7. Public toilets - providing clean, safe and functional facilities

All files on this can be found here:

http://www.stockton.gov.uk/citizenservices/regeneration/bhamtc/btcr/

Billingham Forum Not sure what the latest look is but:

http://a1.vox.com/6a00ccff97f66c6ea501101625acb9860b-500pi

^ Think that look has changed.

http://ts23.gazettelive.co.uk/upload/2009/06/TS23/forum2.jpg

What it looks like recently:

http://ts23.gazettelive.co.uk/upload/2009/06/TS23/forum1.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3642/3492456100_9068e1ea6f.jpg

This should be finished sometime next year, and the town centre should start construction next year as well. :)

Ice Hockey?

You can just see the 'kingsway' tower sticking up over the roof in the background on the first rendering. That tower intrigues me, but I've never been able to get any info on it.

Yep, Ice Hockey. Always been played there the team is called "Billingham Bombers". :)

Ah yes Talisker, i'll have a look see if i can find out anything, will get some pictures if i can't find any on the internet for the SSN pages. :) You may be able to find some information/pictures by typing in the building name here: http://www.picturestockton.co.uk/homepage.aspx

I've finally got round to updating the skyscrapernews database on the tower in Billingham, which I now know to be called Dawson House, not kingsway. Still don't have any of my own photos for it though. I should try and get down there at some point.

Do you know of the height?

I would estimate 40-45m, based on the floor count. It looks to be that height on street view.

What would you say as to the height of these in stockton: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Stockton-on-Tees,+United+Kingdom&aq=0&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=45.149289,93.076172&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Stockton-on-Tees,+United+Kingdom&ll=54.569829,-1.313596&spn=0.004055,0.011362&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=54.569919,-1.313775&panoid=ECP8sEnP4PbEznRvzjV09A&cbp=12,347.22,,0,-9.6

Thery're 17 storeys, so depending on floor-floor height you're looking at 42-51m. I'd guess from appearance it would towards the upper limit of those figures. What are the names of these again? I'll get them in the database as well.

Lets have some photos of the existing town centre and historical photos of when the existing one was new.

I've never been to Billingham town centre, but I imagine it had a fantastic brutalist 60s shopping centre with marvellous concrete spirals and metal railings like the ones at Thornaby, Hartlepool and Peterlee.

As nobody is coming forward with anything, I have done a quick search myself. Although I've never been there it turned out my prediction was right. An amazing modernist sculpture in concrete. This is the epiphany of what a Great British shopping centre should look like.
http://i1056.photobucket.com/albums/t371/ProtonSaga1/billingham/picresized20Billingham_band.jpg
http://i1056.photobucket.com/albums/t371/ProtonSaga1/billingham/picresized_billingham_aerial.jpg
http://i1056.photobucket.com/albums/t371/ProtonSaga1/billingham/picresized_Billingham_art_2.jpg
http://i1056.photobucket.com/albums/t371/ProtonSaga1/billingham/picresized_Billingham_artist.jpg
http://i1056.photobucket.com/albums/t371/ProtonSaga1/billingham/picresized_billingham_shop_1967.jpg
http://i1056.photobucket.com/albums/t371/ProtonSaga1/billingham/picresized_Billingham_shopping.jpg
http://i1056.photobucket.com/albums/t371/ProtonSaga1/billingham/picresized_Billingham_spiral.jpg

All pictures taken from the Gazette website which also has accompanying text at this link:
http://rememberwhen.gazettelive.co.uk/2009/04/billingham-blues.html