Patients of Brotton Hospital taking the air are (left to right): Mr Robert Holliday, Mr Pickney, ??, ??. There were very few care homes; the infirm and those unable to care for themselves lived at the hospital.
Image courtesy of Marjorie Magor.
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 We know we are getting further away but couldn’t resist this photograph of the herring boats leaving Whitby late at night; which provoked some discussion regarding a date. Derick Pearson suggested: “The Herring / Fishing fleet leaving Whitby early in the morning around the turn of the century c1900.” Russ Pigott suggested: “It must be a bit later than 1900 as the picture shows the breakwaters which were added to the existing piers about 1914. Also ,though in no expert on boats. Are they not diesel boats as there are no sails or funnels fo steam boilers?” David Richardson agreed with: “The photograph looks very 1950’s to me.” Help arrived when Jim Hebden advised: ”The photograph of the herring fleet was taken on an evening in the 1950s and the boats going out were ring netters, thay work in pairs and shoot their nets around the school of herring in a ring, so surounding the herring. When this photograph was taken I would still been of school age; when I left school I became a fisherman and in the summer months we went herring fishing.” John White supported with: “I agree with Jimmy on that 1950’s, I was a 14 year old who went off drifting for herring on the OCEAN VENTURE a few times.” John Tweddle assisted with: “This image is very similar to one I recall as a child taken in the early 1900’s by Edmund Hall then the staff photographer of the Whitby Gazette. I believe it once appeared as the front page of a Whitby Tourist guide. His photograph was taken from up by the Abbey and had the reflection of the moon on the water over the departing herring fleet, very similar to the water colour by John Freeman. I have tried in vain to find the photograph. To declare my interest, Edmund Hall was my great grandfather. It was reported in the Whitby Gazette article on the occasion of a dinner to mark his 60 years at Horne Bros in 1931 that he was responsible for the greater part of the photographs that had appeared in the Gazette over the last 30 years i.e. from 1900 onwards.” Image from a disc compiled by Derick Pearson, thanks to Jim Hebden for such definite information; also thanks to Russ Pigott, David Richardson, John White and John Tweddle for the updates.  Cock Mill so-called as the mill had an angled or ‘cock-shot’ water race, a farmhouse with a cock fighting pit was also situated here, giving an alternative reason for the name. Cock Mill, a secluded place in the woods, was used for gambling and cock fighting in the old days, as well as a hide-out for home-coming sailors eluding the press gangs. Strange, ghostly tales were told of ‘The Gentleman in Black’ who frequently took his seat at the gambling tables. ‘Pigot’s Directory of 1834’ states that John Coulson was the miller at Cock Mill. 1822 supplement of Genuki for Whitby lists: “COCK MILL, a farm house and Mill, in the township of Hawsker-with-Stainsacre, and parish of Whitby; 1½ mile S. from Whitby” Image courtesy of Iris Place.  The High Street in Marske, looking towards the centre of the village and the roundabout of more modern times. The view hasn’t changed all that much, but once again no traffic how lovely.  How awful to see Redcar like this, must really have imprinted on the mind. Jean Opie comments: “This postcard is interesting to me because my father was posted here during WW2 and used to patrol the beach. He was not in the Home Guard but the regular army, placed on light duties due to lack of fitness for frontline work. Does anyone have any photographs of the soldiers who patrolled Redcar Beach at this time? Image courtesy of Mike Holliday, thanks to Jean Opie, David Lambert, Lin Treadgold and Richard Webster for the updates. 
This one on the promenade at Redcar, a Sunday afternoon constitutional perhaps? Image courtesy of John G. Hannah and Mike Holliday.  Yes looks rather a dull and dark day at Redcar with not many shoppers about on the High Street. I love the carriage on the left, maybe it’s waiting to take a shopper back home. Image courtesy of Mike Holliday.  A lovely card showing five different views of Redcar, interestingly another multi-view postcard that has the South Gare on. Image courtesy of Michael Holliday.  Station Road, not as we see it today but quite busy. This view is from the railway station towards the sea front. Image courtesy of Mike Holliday.  That’s what the poster tells us and it was probably right in those days when Saltburn was in Yorkshire. Russ Piggot advises: ”As it says LNER on the poster it dates it form sometime between 1923 and the end of 1947 as BR was formed on 1st Jan 1948.” Image courtesy of Mike Holliday, thanks to Russ Piggot for the update. |
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