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Colin Hart advises: ”The Methodist Shield was competed for by all the local Methodist Chapels. The children would compete at singing and bible reading while judges would listen but not watch, then give scores to each person.(was this the forerunner of X factor). Handicraft, handwriting, painting and sewing were also judged with points for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. This was usually held at Deepdale Chapel which had a large room. There was also a choir competition and Skinningrove won both sections that year with the songs ‘At the Name of Jesus’ and ’Holy, Holy, Holy’ (I can still remember the tunes). At the end of the competition all points won were added together and the chapel with most points won the shield. The year was 1967 or 1968?”. Angela Marley adds: “I remember those songs from the choir too. They will stick in my mind for ever, the amount of times we had to rehearse them!”
Back row: Mrs Lacey (fur hat), Brian Hart (yellow jumper), Mr Wilf Lacey, Mrs Mabel Forrest (red hat). Also present are: Richard Grant (green jumper holding two cups), tall girl extreme right is Sheila Solomon; her twin Eileen is to the left of Susan Hart, who stands next to Mr Lacey. Girl in red check with white Alice band is Iris Grant next is Judith Magor. Girl with red alice hair band is Angela Willis, next Susan Hill with Frazer Grant behind. Small boy behind in green jumper is Colin Hart. Front row from left: Jean Webster, Angela Dowson, Dawn/Pam Holiday, Beverley Storr and in front of her are believed to be her three sisters. Brian Hart stands next to Mr Lacey (holding a cup) and in front of Brian is Carol Peirson.
Image and names courtesy of Colin Hart; thanks to Elizabeth Mellor, Paul Clarke, Tony and Angela Marley (Dowson).
Help! We know nothing about this photograph, but it looks like a school or Sunday school outing; we think the photograph may have been taken up on the cliff road. Do you know better, or know any of the assembled people?
Image courtesy of Colin Hart.
Skinningrove Junior School in 1970, were you one of the pupils; come on own up?
Back row: Graham Dix, Dawn Noble, Sue Cox, Susan Clark, Paulin Carlin, Steven (Newt) Ewens, Billy Kemp, Leslie (Leso)Holliday.
Middle row: John Dart, Barry Money, Paul Boocock, Brian Purver, Shawn Lannigan, Colin Hart, Clifford Spedding, Wendy Caley.
Front row: Miranda Merryweather, Stuart Whitney, Dave (Moanie) Dawson, Stuart White, Kathleen Noble, Mrs McGingle, Jackie Small, Gill Stonehouse, Judith (Smart) Duboczy, Diane Trelaor.
Derick Pearson told us: “Miss McGingle also was a teacher in the Skinningrove senior school approx 1957 or 1958. She took our class for R.I and other lessons.” We were also asked if Mrs McGingle had a daughter and named Heather and after her marriage she moved to Leeds, this is where Mr and Mrs McGingle retired to, sadly they are no longer with us.
Image courtesy of Colin Hart, thanks to Colin Hart, Derick Pearson, Gary Smith, Paul Clarke, Garry Stonehouse and Pauline Warren for names and updates.
The cricket team from Guisborough Grammar School 1944 – 45. Back left:- Alan Treloar, Bill Matthews, ??, Alan Hart, Harry Wrightson, ??. Front row: ??, Jack May, Harry Harding, Bernard Gratton, Maurice Oversby, Don Harrison. Do you know any of the cricketers?
Alan Davies advised the Archive: “Maurice Oversby is presumably the same who later taught at Guisborough County Modern School [now Laurence Jackson] sadly he passed away in 2014″. Geoff Bailey commented: ” Maurice Oversby was my Chemistry teacher at Guisborough County Modern School back in the early 1960’s”. Keith Harding has assisted with names with: “Front row third left with the bat is Harry Harding”.
Image courtesy of Colin Hart and thanks to John Dunn, Peter Cook and Keith Harding for names updates. Also thanks to Alan Davies and Geoff Bailey for the updates for Maurice Oversby, well known by many sadly passed away in December 2014.
A newspaper cutting from about 1930-1940, showing the underground stables at ”Duckhole” pit (so named because it was one of the wettest pits in the Cleveland System). This pit was eventually worked from Lumpsey mine at Brotton. Simon Chapman advised the Archive: “The horse keeper was Bob Robinson, who has specially put on his helmet for the picture. That round object at the bottom right of the picture is his cap!
Although the cutting refers to it as Carlin How pit and the other mine in the valley was known as Loftus mine, both were actually in Skinningrove Valley! Loftus mine was more popularly known as Skinningrove and is now the basis of the Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum. The horse stables for Loftus mine were believed to be situated under Loftus town Hall, we will check this out.
Image courtesy of various sources, including Cleveland ironstone Mining Museum, the Pem Holliday Collection, etc., thanks to Simon Chapman for the update.
An excellent tinted postcard showing possibly an itinerant knife sharpener, dated about 1907? This is another postcard in the ”Phoenix” Series produced by Brittain & Wright of Stockton.
Image courtesy of John G. Hannah.
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