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Four young speed merchants if the caption is to be believed! We asked who are they and where are they? Derick Pearson believes the image was taken on Brotton Road in Carlin How: ”Looking from the entrance of the Carlin How ambulance station on Brotton Road; Stonehouse’s garage would be on the right and the second part of Brotton road would be to the left. The raised railtrack in the rear going to the left toward Crag Hall and Warsett hill.” We said we would like to have the identity of these ”speed kings”; Alan Franks tells us: “The young fellow on the right is my Dad, George Franks. Derick is probably right for the location, my Dad lived at Carlin How, first at Queen Street, then Brotton Road (Oxford Terrace then). His Dad, my Grandad worked on the Fab Shop and was killed there in 1924. His Mam lived with us until she died in1955, we lived in Redcar then.” Can anybody assist with any other names?
Image and additional information courtesy of Alan Franks and thanks to Derick Pearson for naming the location.
Double-headed by an Ivatt 3MT 2-6-2T number 41265 (a Whitby and Moors Excursion) rounds the reverse curve at Fen Bog, a few miles south of Goathland; the long train from the West Riding requiring assistance up the gradients out of Levisham. The second locomotive is probably a B1. This location is also close to Fylingdales Moor, sitting roughly below the radar station.
Information adapted from comments courtesy of Mark.
Another view of the Tivoli Theatre, with a line of ”relaxed” gentleman seated outside. Anybody any ideas as to names?
One suggestion from Kathleen Kelly is that the gentleman second from left could be Charles Biott?
Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection and Dot Verrill, with thanks to Kathleen Kelly for the update.
Despite it’s exotic title the Tivoli Theatre, Carlin How was actually a corrugated sheeting building; with it’s mock gothic windows bore a greater resemblance to a chapel or religious building. Remembered for its travelling shows and dandily dressed actors who performed there. The building was also used for balls, as well as auctions. It later burned down in a fire in December 1914, the fire was believed to have started in Biott’s fish and chip shop which stood at the other end of the Theatre. The Tivoli Theatre stood on what was commonly called the Common opposite but to the right of the school. The same area in later years was where the Air Raid shelters were built. The telephone box of more modern times would have been at the right hand end of the Tivoli looking from Carlin How Fisheries. The metal fencing in the image faced onto Kilton Lane, whilst the youngsters in the photograph would be looking across Muriel Street at the end of the Maynard Arms.
Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection and many thanks to Brian Jemson and Derick Pearson for updating information.
Another local commuter train underway, headed by a BR Standard tank, skirting the cliff edge at Kettleness. The unusual configuration of the first coach can be clearly seen in this image. A beautiful picturesque route, this would make a lovely leisure route today (after re-alignment to avoid the continuously advancing cliff edge!). Russ Pig0tt comments about the first carriage: “There’s nothing unusual about the first coach it is a Brake third, basically a second class coach (when built bizarrely there were only first and third class; second had been phased out) with guard’s accommodation and luggage space. Parcels and mail were still conveyed by trains such as this and continued on local services until the late 1980s.”
Image courtesy Maurice Grayson and thanks to Russell Pigott for the clarification of the Editor’s query.
Whitby West Cliff Station – very quiet – only two carriages on the train. An ex-LMS Fairburn 4MT 2-6-4T, not obviously in steam from this photograph, but crewed up ready for the next leg of the trip. Alan Featonby tells us: ”I think you will find this train is a Whitby Town to Whitby West Cliff shuttle. The train will pull forward to take water prior to the engine running round and going back to Town. The Middlesbrough to Scarborough train or Scarborough to Middlesbrough train; will arrive and depart on the left hand track as it is straight through running. It and the return working did not go into Whitby Town, thus saving time and another reversal. The engine is Whitby allocated 42085. The summer timetable is in effect, likely 1957.”
Thanks to Mark Thompson for the information about the guards van and locomotive; and thanks to Alan Featonby for clarifying the situation.
The Nursery of Harry Dack Infant School enjoying their outing and picnic (obviously being enjoyed by all) which was held down near the dam (Loftus Mill), but date and reasons unknown. Can anybody help with details and with missing names?
Back Row: Richard Stockdale, ?? , ?? , ?? , Kieron Bint, Mark Wilson, Lisa Willis, Kim Amelia, Craig Morrison.
Front Row: ?? , ?? , ?? , Mark Stonehouse, Mark Beedle, Lee Kentfield, John Middlemass.
Image and names to date courtesy of Joan Yeoman.
Meadow Dairy was on the High Street, next to the present day Post Office; previously a Tattoo Parlour and is now part of the ‘My Price’ food shop. In 1924 the Manager was Mr Joe Anderson and is shown flanked by two assistants, one of whom is known to be Miss Elsie Burton and an unknown assistant. Mr Anderson won prizes for window dressing and many of his displays were astonishing.
Can anybody help in identification of the other young lady?
North Road (earlier called Lambs Lane) around 1900 – from a T.C. Booth of Loftus postcard – the date being assumed from the postmark which the card carries of August 1912. Adam Cuthbert asked: “What was the building that’s now the road to North Road car park and when did it get knocked down?” Eric Johnson tells us: ”Ally Watson’s dairy was in the building with Hodgson’s sign. Further up North Road was access between the parish hall and this building to Laurie Gibson’s butchers barn and slaughter-house. The bottom half of this building was used to store the stalls for the Market Place, the upper part being occupied as a house by a family called Lindsey. All were demolished along with the council yard for the car park. The house built out onto the road with the lancet window is Forge House, with the smithy next towards the parish hall. Ally Watson later used the smithy building for his dairy and milk round. The first shop on the left was Gibsons butchers. The shop opposite used to belong to Billy Clark, no relation, who played for Loftus Albion in the Northern League. Then Jim Kelly’s off-licence, his wife was a member of the Trillo (ice cream) family. Clarks shop next to the butchers was formerly Cyril Whitlock’s grocers.” Can anybody assist with dating this alteration?
Image courtesy of Jean Hall and thanks to Eric Johnson for the updates.
The caption on this postcard view says ”Old Congregational Church, Loftus”, the plaque between the windows says ”Ebenezer Chapel”, so they were both right. Built in 1827 in North Road (then called Lambs Lane), it accommodated 180 people and over the doorway was an inscription ”Si deus a nobis est qui contra nos?” which in English means ’If God is with us who shall be against us?’ The church was replaced in 1906 by the church built on the former monumental mason’s yard at the corner of West Road and Westfield Terrace to accommodate more people; the ”Ebenezer” when disused later became the Parish Hall. Now refurbished as a private property and currently up for sale, this fine old building looks as austere now as it did then. The obligatory group of onlookers makes this picture, don’t you think? Can anybody explain why it looks like a building of two halves, with each half a mirror image of the other?
Image courtesy of Ann Wedgewood & Keith Bowers, information courtesy of Jean Wiggins.
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