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Lovely clear photograph of the ’Grove with Grove Hill clearly shown above Zetland Row. There is a cross mark on the photograph which was believed to indicate the Working Men’s Institute building of the time. S. Welford commented: “The cross usually was special to whoever originally sent the postcard or photograph. It often indicated home, holiday home or had a special significance.” However John Kennedy pointed out: “Looks like the Working Men’s Institute, too tall for the Infant and Junior School.” Thomas Sayers confirms this fact with: “I was born in Skinningrove and the building with the cross on was indeed the Working Men`s Institute. I also taught at the Infant and Junior school. There was no separate Infant school; the Senior School is in the foreground, bottom left.”
Thanks to S. Welford and John Kennedy for the updates. Also to Thomas Sayers for confirmation of the buildings.
The title should really be ‘First Tarmac Road’ for Grove Hill; this being December 1982 through to February 1983. Pem Holliday who recorded this activity even annotated his photograph.
Image and information courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection.
This photograph of the truck was taken in the old Council yard; just off Walkers Row in Guisborough. Clearly the Council was into snappy advertising even then!
Image and information courtesy of Howard Wilson.
Oops – this looks like a right purler! Now known to be an incident involving NER locomotive no 1294, it ran away on the zig zag and hit the buffers at the bottom end. The Archive’s guess that was correct, believing that the train got away on him and either the guard got his hand-brake on and the locomotive didn’t, or a wagon skipped the track and this was the result. It looks like a train of empties, so I’m surprised that the locomotive couldn’t hold it on the gradient. Looking at the collateral damage, I bet someone lost his job over this!
How clearly the zig zag railway can be seen in this photograph, Grove Hill to the right and Zetland Terrace to the left of it. In the left hand bottom corner is written Geo. Skilbeck; he being the photographer (his shop was located on Zetland Road , Loftus). This being one of a vast number of postcards that were sold by Mr. Skilbeck in his shop in Loftus.
Once again, beautiful though it is, the Archive had no idea where this was and asked for answers. Eric Johnson advised: “I think it’s an old print of Handale Abbey farm, built using part of the priory buildings.”
Thanks to Eric Johnson for that update.
Okay, were you or any one you know a BSC foreman and were you on this trip to Steel, Peech and Tozer Rotherham; 25th June 1958? If so can you tell us the names of any of the men there and where the photograph was taken?
Back row: ??, ??, ??, Jim Shaw.
Fifth row: ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??.
Fourth row: ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??.
Third row: ??, ??, ??, ??, ??.
Second row: ??, ??, ??, Harry Moore (sample passer at Skinningrove), ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??.
Front row: ??, ??, Ron Cook, ??, ??, Tom Cook.
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre; also thanks to Malcolm, Eric Johnson and Liz Riley for the updates (Harry Moore being uncle to and grandfather of Liz Riley).
The Bassendale group was so-called following the inclusion of this copied image from a display in Carlin How in 1983 by Derick Pearson. Derick entitled the image to identify in the collection of some 600+ images he copied for the display. Cynthia White advised: “The lady seated on the front right is my mam; Mrs Harriet Ann Templeman of North Skelton. The lady seated front left is my aunt, Mrs Olive Templeman of North Skelton; the lady seated next to Ivy is Dora Kirk”.
Back row: ??, Mrs Hoggarth, ??, ??, Mr Jack Hyde, ??.
Front row: Mrs Olive Templeman, Mrs Ivy Bassendale (Carlin How Post Office), Mrs Dora Kirk?, Mrs Harriet Ann Templeman, Mrs Hyde.
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre, thanks to Joan Jemson and Cynthia White we have some names, do you know any more?
Wood Street, Carlin How viewed from 1960s Welding Shop and 1990s Goodhall’s Timber Company site; now the new estate at the rear of Cliffe Avenue. Derick Pearson raised a question about :”Between this high roof house and the old Chimney, there is a Pit head gear. There was a pit shaft there that not many knew of but some said could it be the aerial rope-way for the tippler for the Buckets coming from Skinningrove mine?” John Pearson with information gleaned from the Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum advised: “Loftus mines ironstone was transported up to Skinningrove Works from 1895 by connection into the abandoned workings of the North Loftus mine to avoid paying haulage charges to the N.E.R. By 1932 the North Loftus shaft steam winding equipment was thoroughly antiquated so the aerial ropeway was built to avoid using the shaft which was later filled in.”
Information and image from a cd produced by Derick Pearson in 1980s, thanks to John Pearson for the update.
This postcard image presents a different view of Arlington Street taken from Chapel Bank; on the left hand side it shows the grassy bank and the beck that was piped when the estate was built. The right hand side, showing the entrance to East Crescent the triangular fenced/walled area was previously occupied by the Newton Memorial Chapel.
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