Front: Bill Brough (partial), Albert Rowland, Rev Maurice Clegg (Minister), Gladys Clegg, Edward Exon, Evelyn Exon, Mrs Rowland(sister in law of:), Mary Rowland.
Connie Whiteley advised the Archive: ” Maurice Clegg’s daughter looked at this photograph of Congregational Church outing to Hexham and recognises most of those already named! She can add that the name of Mrs Arden’s son is Derek – at least that’s what she thinks. There is a high probability that the unknown lady next to Mary Rowland was her sister-in-law, Mrs Rowland”.
Back row: ??, B. J. Wormleighton (Architect), R. Dyson Nut (Rate Collector, Surveyor & Clerk to Burial Board), Henry Hoggett (Clerk to Council), Mr Thomas Errington (National Provincial Bank Manager), Charles Jardine Dodd, William Robinson.
Middle row: ??, Dr Donaldson, R. Tyson, R. Stamp, W. T. Park, M. Parkin, C. Hoggett (Solicitor).
Front row: Henry L Munnoch, Zach Stephenson, Father P. Machen, A. Swales (Chairman), Thomas S. Petch, A. MacKenzie.
Can anybody help with the missing names or even where the photograph was taken?
Image courtesy of Loftus Town Council, thanks also to Alison Atkinson (Clerk Loftus Town Council) for supply of the previously missing names.
Boulby School educated the children from the iron sheeting clad cottages locally known as ”Tin City” Boulby. This is the class of 1935. Back row: ?? (teacher), ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??. Middle Row: ??, ??, ??, ? Thompson, ??, Ray Conn, Lance Easton. Front Row: ??, Les Dowey, ??, ??, ? Cowland, ??. Can you help and identify any of the remaining people? Image courtesy of Ray Conn.
Not politically correct in the present day, but that is what the caption on the photograph said; can anyone enlighten us to when this was and what was the reason for the fancy dress? A possible answer may be that it is one of the Fisherman’s Association carnival days. Wendy Found tells us: ”This is at the top of Beck Row just before you went under the railway bridge. Don’t know about the fancy dress.”The Archive has been assisted by Keith Bowers, discovering the ‘Comical Coon Company’ often undertook charity events to raise mone for unfortunate people. This detail came from a Whitby Gazette item dated 8th July 1904.
Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection and others, many thanks to Wendy Found and Keith Bowers for the updates.
A pleasant view of Deepdale Wood, dating from the 1900s; another view to prove that the area was not all steel works and ironstone mines.
Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection; taken from ”Cooke’s Views of Loftus and District” an album of views around Loftus produced by Cooke’s Fancy Bazaar of West Road, Loftus.
An idyllic rural image, just to show that the Loftus area wasn’t all Ironstone Pits and Smelters – well most of it was!
Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection; taken from ”Cooke’s Views of Loftus and District” an album of views around Loftus produced by Cooke’s Fancy Bazaar of West Road, Loftus.
A view of Runswick Bay, nestled under it’s cliffs, photographed by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe. A popular place – like Staithes, with artists; a school of artists used to live and work here in Victorian times.
Image from ”Photographic View Album of Whitby” – photographed for and printed by Valentine & Sons Ltd., Dundee.
A good catch for the men on Skinningrove beach: William Halton, W. Cox, ??, the young boy was Tom Richards, W. Dart, Whit Hall, Jim Richards, ??, Tom Hart and last but not least A. Hart.
Note the fish creel in the right foreground. Does anyone know the date of this photograph?
Pauline Dolling advised the Archive: “William Halton (watchmaker in Loftus – of Halton’s Jewellers shop) was born in 1869. His younger brother Arthur Halton was my grand father, who worked at Loftus Railway station.” If it is the same William Halton, then it could be between 1900/10 when he would be 30-40. However his own father was also a William Halton born in 1837. As William Dart was born about 1890, the Archive thinks Pauline’s estimation of the date will be about right. Eric Trembath has asked: “Was W Dart related to my granddad Elijah Bogey Dart? They have a resemblance to each other?”
Image courtesy of Pauline Dolling and the Pem Holliday Collection, thanks to Pauline Dolling for the additional information; also to Eric Trembath for his enquiry.
Boulby School educated the children from the iron sheeting clad cottages locally known as ”Tin City” Boulby. This is the class of 1936 and is possibly the last photograph of pupils at the school. We are aware that in May 1936 Mr Robert Graham (of 18 Boulby Cottages) submitted a petition signed by 22 of the residents to the Minister of Health in London objecting to Loftus Urban District Council’s clearance order which stated the properties were ”unfit for human habitation”. Shortly after that they were rehoused in Coronation Road, Loftus; interestingly one of the other residents of ”Tin City” also maintained a small shop and despite a ’promise’ from Loftus Urban District Council, no shop was ever built on the Coronation Road estate.
Back row: Miss Edna Hardy, Ron (Lol)Dowey, Bryan Hartley, Abel Roberts, Stan Fletcher, Bill Webster, Cuddy Webster, Lance Easton.
Middle row: Billy Adamson, Ray Husband, Harry Easton, John Kirby, Ray Conn, Iris Roberts, Peggy Trevor, ??, ? Thompson.
Front row: ??, John Conn, Ann Webster, ??, Doris Fletcher, Marian Roberts, ??, ??.
Can you help and identify any of the remaining people?
Image courtesy of Ray Conn, with thanks to Ray Husband and Marian Smith (Roberts) for assistance with some of the missing names; also to Eric Jackson with subsequent information about the petition.
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