1904 – Dorman Memorial Museum, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire

A local and social history museum, the museum was founded by Sir Arthur Dorman of the Dorman Long engineering company in honour of his son George Lockwood Dorman, who died of enteric fever at Kroonstad in the Second Boer War. At its official opening on 1 July 1904, the museum’s theme was the natural sciences

“This building, which owes its erection to the liberality of Mr. Dorman, has been designed by Mr. J. Mitchell Bottomley, of Middlesbrough, we, we understand, will, in execution, be enabled to improve its design somewhat; but we have no further particulars.” So wrote The Building News, and infact the architect did get to change the design, creating a taller tower than illustrated. Built of red brick and terracotta with an ornamental copper domed tower, which has become one of Middlesbrough’s landmarks.”
The Building News, March 27th 1903