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 Members of the Staithes Coastguard Auxiliary Service; Norman Conn, Harry Reed and Harold Beyham with the life-saving gear for rescue from the shore. The Archive has a request from Chris Bell: “Does anybody have any information regarding the rocket House on the Cowbar at Staithes which was used for marine rescue?” Image courtesy of Mr. Ray Conn, thanks to Chris Bell for that request.  Harry Reed and Norman Conn with a boy from Middlesbrough who had been rescued by the Staithes Auxiliary Coastguards. Does anyone know more of the story, please? Image and details courtesy of Mr. Ray Conn (photograph under copyright of L.W. & C.D. Richardson, Redcar).  An image of the old St. Peter’s Church in Brotton, demolished about 1958 – all that’s left now is the plinth on which it stood – (near to the graves of its priests). A little more information has come to light in an extract from a booklet “Know your Parish” it states:- “When St Margaret’s was built St. Peter’s became the mortuary chapel, this chapel was cleaned & restored in 1901 but was demolished later. When the workmen removed some large flagstones near to where the altar had stood they discovered a tunnel which had been bricked up some time in the past. The registers commence in 1641, baptism to 1881: marriages to 1901 and burials to 1956? Image courtesy of Raymond Brown. Thanks to Simon Chapman and Ray Brown for the updates.  A well photographed place Skinningrove, but a nice clear image, showing the houses and the works. In the foreground is the Gas showroom, behind it can be seen the footbridge linking up to Wood Road and up to Grove Hill. Image courtesy of Joan Jemson.  This photograph loaned to us by Geoff Hore; shows the valley off beautifully and the once well tended allotments. I am informed that Skinningrove school had an allotment here, did you ever work on it? John Winspear tells us: “The Senior School certainly did have an allotment here; situated just behind the gasometers and the road which ran between Skinningrove and Loftus. It was part of the school curriculum then and my year group was tasked with the Wednesday slot to tend it, under the attention of Mr. Temple (Duggie).” Image courtesy of Geoff Hoare, thanks to John Winspear for the update.  The photograph was annotated with the following: Chair of Council Mrs. Irene Rye, with Miss Millennium Natalie Johnson and attendants. Outside Town Hall in the year 2000.  This fairly complex piece of shuttering was part of the construction of the culvert under the Kilton viaduct. We’ve had quite a few images of the construction of the culvert, but none showing it at such an advanced stage! The whole project obviously attracted considerable interest as this image (taken from a postcard and possibly by T. C. Booth) is only one of several produced during this major construction. Image courtesy of Eileen Hicks.  Taken from a beautiful presentation photograph triptych of 1984, this shows the donor of this collection of images; John Hill. Image courtesy of John Hill.  The centre image from the triptych, this shows the team line-up as at the 4th April 1984.  A brief potted history of the revival and present ( as of 1984) line-up of the Loftus Sword Dance Team. |
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