We are completely stumped! We need help with names, when and where?
Bob Doe tells us: ”Jon Shelley with glasses kneeling at back. Used to be a security man at BSC Skinningrove.”
Image courtesy of Dave McGill and thanks to Bob for the update.
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 Claphow bridges in the 1940s, I would not advise walking along the road in this manner today. It is now known that the two ladies are: ”Two sisters (left to right); Joan and Emily Greensitt whose family owned a guest house on Marine Parade, Saltburn. The image was taken of them taking a leisurely stroll through the Claphow bridges about 1940”
A presentation of cheques, but we have no information as to event, location or what the cheques are for?. We can identify at the far right Arthur Hawkins (Invoice Manager) and Eddie Yeoman receiving a cheque; far left Ron Mildon. Ron Milner (Security) centre with cheque? Can any one help with further information.
Removing the rails from the bridge down to Skinningrove on the Zig Zag Railway, just below the hairpin bend on Carlin How bank. Work undertaken by Darlington District Engineers Department, prior to the bridges demolition, about 1958. Photo courtesy of Ken Loughran.
We can recognise second from left Albert Atkinson, Can anybody help? Image courtesy of Dave McGill
I know first left is Bill Hyde, but who are the other men and who is receiving the first aid? Photo loaned by Dave McGill
Looks as though there is an examination in progress, those of us not so young will recognise the Doctor there. The late Dr. Etches, a well known, well liked doctor in Loftus. Barbara McBurney tells us: ”The boys attending to the patient are Dave Partlett and Gerry Pearson facing, Norman Myers kneeling with his back to camera.”  Miners at Lingdale, leaving the mine one carries a safety lamp, others are discarded on the ground along with helmet battery lamps. Was this the Last Shift?. Miners: Bernard ’Bish’ Swinburne, Eric Hatfield?, Joseph Hood, ??. Ian Swinburn has told the Archive: ”Far left on the picture is my dad Bernard (Bish) Swinburne and it might be Eric Hatfield to his left; not sure about the others”. Stuart Williamson informs: “I was born in Brotton and spent many happy summers at my grandparents, both there and in Lingdale, where my father was born. His grandmother was a midwife before they became official, and she also laid out the dead.By chance when looking through your archive I came across a photograph of my grandfather, Joseph Hood, leaving the pit”. Stuart also offered his poem: A Northern Poem – Stuart Williamson © A coat that’s seen a dozen winters Ironstone, Belemnite, Nautilus rich Terraced streets all left behind to wake Women left to tend the home A ‘job down’t pit’ was all there was Identification of the other miners or corrections welcome. Photo courtesy George Pearson, thanks to Ian Swinburne and Stuart Williamson for the updates.
South Skelton Mine, around the time of closure in 1954. Mining commenced
in the 1860’s, at a depth of about 200 feet. Photo courtesy George Pearson.
South Skelton Mine, just before the war, The Picking Belt Shed at the left of the photo looks fairly new it was installed around 1935. The Picking Belt |
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