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Saltburn – Postcard Views

First of a series of postcard views of Saltburn, showing a view of Old Saltburn cottages, beside the Ship Inn and a view down the lower section of Hazelgrove from the bandstand now no longer in existence. Callum Duff tells us: ”The pillars that used to support the roof of the Hazelgrove bandstand were salvaged and now hold hanging baskets along one side of the Italian Gardens.” Tom Metcalfe remembers: “I lived in Saltburn up to 1962, when I joined the Royal Engineers. During my early years I had lived with my grand parents in the gardener cottage in the Valley Gardens and then 26 Montrose Street.” Peter Appleton asks: “The photograph of the cottages to the east of the Ship Inn triggered a question in my mind. When were they built? Which led on to: when was the Ship Inn built? Does anyone have any ideas on either answer? If the accepted stories about John Andrew, the smuggler, are true, he arrived in Saltburn in the early 1780s. The Ship Inn, at least, must have been standing then. But what about those other cottages?Can anybody assist with this query?

Many thanks to Callum Duff for the update and Tom Metcalfe for the memories, also thanks to Peter Appleton for the query.

Runaway Fair

It was 1920 when this vehicle from Crow’s fair ran away down Mill Bank; there are plenty of people there to give advice. Vehicles running backwards down Mill Bank was a common occurrence many years ago. Peter Turvey has advised: ”This photograph shows a very rare Showman’s road locomotive – one of the few traction centre engines built – they could act as the centre of a set of gallopers (a type of roundabout) as well as haul loads on the road.”

Image courtesy of several sources and thanks to Peter Turvey for that update.

Lingdale Football Team 1950

Pictured are the winners of the Priory Cup in the 1949 – 50 season, are Lingdale Junior football team; managed by George Chisman. Many of the team had played for Lingdale School just three years earlier including Derek Stonehouse who went on to play for Middlesbrough FC.

Back row: Gordon Hood, Joe Bean, Robert Wright, Robbie Dadd, Peter Trowsdale.

Front row: Les Thornton, Derek Stonehouse, Dennis Bint, Vince Barber, ‘Notchy’ Codling and Gordon Swinburne.

Image (from a newspaper cutting) courtesy of Mike Holliday.

Old Saltburn

The boats are pulled up and the Ship Inn is there along with the cottages, but no made up roads. Please tell the Archive what date you think this photograph would be.

Image courtesy of Mike Holliday.

Aerial ropeway – Bottom Section

This is the sight you would have seen entering Skinningrove,  from the Carlin How to Loftus road, dating from about 1937; Loftus mine was to the right and the ropeway took ironstone from the mine to the steel works on the top of the hill, on it’s return it brought shale which was tipped at the back of the mine.  This ropeway was known locally as ’the buckets’. This is a view of the bottom pylon of ’The Buckets’ complete with protective screen above the road. Just to the left of the pylon can be seen the air shaft for the mine. This airshaft still can be seen today, beside the entrance to the footpath up to Carlin How. The row of houses on the extreme right of this image is that of Overman’s Cottages, colloquially known as ‘Hoss Muck Terrace”; owing to the proximity to the surface stables for the mine.

Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection, the David Linton Collection and others.

Foulskye

A pleasant aerial view of Foulsyke, possibly in early spring, dating from the 1980s?

Image courtesy of Cody McKay.

A Sunday School Outing

A view of Front Street, Carlin How with pupils from the Carlin How Wesleyan Sunday School on their way to a picnic at Cragg Hall. The chapel was built in 1912, with other buildings being used prior to that date. The two boys near the railings are looking a little miserable, maybe they don’t go to Sunday School but are wishing they did. Now believed to date from c.1909 shows the trip from Carlin How square. The front garden fences are of note, they are narrow zigzag rails.  Neil Suckling tells us: ”I am fairly sure that the man with his right arm on the back of the waggon, flat cap, grey beard; is my great grandfather, Alf Suckling. He was a Primitive Methodist preacher; so it may be a mixed denomination outing?”

Information courtesy of Wiggins and thanks to Neil Suckling for the update.

Old Saltburn

A tinted postcard view of the cottages at Old Saltburn that was posted in 1905, this in the days when Old Saltburn was a hamlet. The Ship Inn is on the extreme right of this view, unseen and behind the photographer would be other buildings; including the Lifeboat building, Mortuary and Rocket Launching building. The ‘Ship’ was not the only place for ‘refreshment’, as well an inn called the ‘Nimrod’ there were several ‘gin shops’!

Image courtesy of Tina Dowey.

Liverton Mine

Liverton works, with the spray bars in the right-foreground, this was actually part of the Liverton ironstone mine. Graham Suggett asked: “My grandfather worked at the Liverton Mines pit until it closed, he was winding engine foreman. He lived at Graham Street (note my given name). He kept ducks on the reservoir. Presumably the reservoir fed the spray bars. Please, what were the spray bars used for?” Simon Chapman advised: ”The water spray in the reservoir did two things: it was the exhaust steam from the engines so it was condensed back to water which also warmed up the water in the reservoir before it was pumped into the boilers. This was part of an extensive modernisation scheme at the mine about 1903 to make the place more efficient” Graham also added: “How ingenious and energy conscious those miners were. My grandfather, Harry Brown, operated the hoist until the mine closed and he retired.”

Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection and others; also thanks to Graham Suggett and to Simon Chapman for the updates.

Brick Wheel – Skinningrove Iron & Steel Works

Taken in 1933 this shows the brick wheel and the work force on the steel works. Robert Proctor told the Archive: “The purpose was to make bricks from molten blast furnace slag , many of these bricks can be found in most back alleys, they are grey with siliceous blue bands running through. It consisted of a number of moulds arranged on the outside of a wheel supported from the top by tie rods , which looked like spokes. These moulds had to be filled from a slag ladle and once set were released from the mould by dropping a door , the bricks were then put into an oven to cool down slowly so as to avoid any fractures, a type of heat treatment.” Eric Johnson supplied the following brief description of brickmaking: ”The slag was brought from the furnaces in slag ladles adapted with a tap hole. a chute was placed between this and led down to the wheel moulds. The making of slag bricks was a very labour intensive operation; once started was continuous hard, hot work. The wheel was a steel circular construction, with the steel moulds round the perimeter with a hinged bottom held with a catch. This can be all be seen in the photograph, the wheel was driven by a geared electric motor with hand operated backup. As the slag ran down the chute into the moulds, the wheel rotated, the filled moulds cooled down and at a point near the kilns, the catch was struck the hinged bottom opened the hot brick fell to the ground. It was picked up with the large “gripes”. some of the men can be seen holding in photo, carried to the kilns and stacked inside, when full the kiln was closed. as the kiln was already hot from the previous batch the working conditions for the men can be imagined.”

Second man front right is Harry Dack from Carlin How; does anyone know any more of the men here?

Image courtesy of Derick Pearson and others; thanks to Robert Proctor and Eric Johnson for the updates.