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 A lovely photograph of the bay from a T. B. Booth postcard, but look at the smoke from the works no clean air in those days. Chris Twigg advised: “I t looks like the Alum House is still intact by the seashore, I think that puts it before 1910”. Image courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum, thanks to Chris Twigg for the update.  Yes the railway bridge as it used to be at Carlin How, do you remember driving under it? I do and if you met a bus coming the other way there was not a lot of room. This image provoked other memories including Andrew Pryce: “I remember being at the junior school in my final year when the bridge was demolished. We had taken over what used to be Danby’s shop on the corner of Coronation Street.”, David Price recalls: “I can remember the bridge well, as a schoolboy in the late 1940′s I travelled from Middlesbrough to Carlin How to visit my auntie and uncle, Mr and Mrs Stephen Husband in Rawlinson Street. In those days, Loftus Bank was very steep and narrow, the old pre-second World War buses almost came to a standstill to get down into a crawler gear. I found this frightening as a child. My father, Frank Price, 8th in a family of 11 children, was brought up in Mount Pleasant and Queen Street, Carlin How. In 1922 at 14 years old, he went to work at the corner shop owned by Nixon Brothers who had a chain of shops, grocery stores, drapers and butchers in Skinningrove, Carlin How, Skelton, Brotton and Margrove Park. I wonder if it is the same shop that your family ran years later? Dad never said whether the shop was on the corner of Queen Street or Coronation Street. Nixon Brothers were also property developers and builders. My grandad, George Price, was a builder and bricklayer and worked for the building side of Nixon Brothers. Grandad was on a price system and was paid £30 per house for doing all the brickwork. Good old days ! Dad could remember as a child the WWI Zeppelin airships bombing Skinningrove Ironworks and the surrounding area in 1914/1915.” and Rita Beckham with : “I was brought up in Lax Street from 1940 to I think it was 1949 when we moved to Front Street as we were a large family requiring more room. I remember this bridge well it was built at a sharp angle, from the bottom of the way up to Skinningrove Railway Station, built of sandstone and supporting by timber. What I remember most about this bridge was the very large crack from top to bottom on the left hand side before going through the bridge towards Loftus. We as children used to rush through as we thought if a train went over the bridge at the same time as we went under it, it would collapse onto us. Scary!”. Thanks to Andrew Pryce, David Price and Rita Beckham for their memories.  While they were working at Fylingdales the Defence Minister, Julian Amery, visited with an American Officer. Image and details courtesy of Geoffrey Powell.  St. Michael’s Church, Liverton; a delightful church in equally delightful surroundings. 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.  Conditions on the moor could be bad. Geoffrey recalled one Friday afternoon when their truck ran off the PSP (perforated steel plate road) into a bog. Another vehicle was sent to take the men. The RL three ton Bedford disappeared into the bog over the weekend. Constant bogs required desperate measures, this Land Rover was fitted with tracks. Image and information courtesy of Geoffrey Powell.  Skinningrove Senior School had obviously won a trophy in 1935, but the Archive needs help! Tony Mellor is second right in the back row, but who are the others, and what is the shield that they have won? Can someone tell us more, please? Image courtesy of Elizabeth Mellor.  A lovely view of the cliffs and the sea, there is Hummersea bay, Skinningrove and Cattersty, the jetty can be clearly seen and the smoke tells us where the ironstone works are. Hummersea Farm can also be seen, as can the shine of a pond in the centre of the image. Following a comment from S. Welford; Eric Johnson advised: “‘Snilah’ ponds were originally two ponds, I was told they were the settling ponds for Hummersea Alum Works. I remember them as home to a colony of great crested newts, dragonflies, and other aquatic wildlife; surrounded by purple spotted orchids. The site was used for filling in with industrial waste. Many years later walking past the site I observed a black oily substance oozing from the area. A sad end (and I don’t belong to the green party!). Heather Bann added: “I also have a postcard picture taken approx. same time though the tide is out; position almost exact. My grandmother Annie Hammond (nee Burns) of Fylingdales, had sent it to my grandad just prior to their wedding in 1914. She has marked the house which can just be seen cut off a bit at the left edge as her half sister’s house, Lucy (nee Burns) and George Wren. She has also marked the farm further up and just below the ‘smoke’ from the works as “Where my uncle lives” I do not know is this an uncle on the Burns side or her mother’s side the Wedgwood’s? Would love to know. Thanks to Eric Johnson, S Welford and Heather Bann for the updates.  This photograph of the choir of St. Michael’s Church, Liverton was taken in about 1966. At the back: Margaret Maudsley, June Lees, Susan Whitwell and Christine Wallace. In front: David Lees, Janet Codling, Audrey Wallace, Jean Wallace and Douglas Lees. Image and information courtesy of Mrs. Janet Wilson.  Geoffrey won’t forget the winter of 1962/63. He had never seen snow as high as a double-decker bus before. It was so cold and all they wanted to do was keep warm. On one occasion they were stranded on the moors and had to stay on the site with the builders in their accommodation block. There was a near riot after three days of baked beans. Image and information courtesy of Geoffrey Powell.  Following the interest in the story of his time at Fylingdales; Geoffrey Powell has kindly sent us these photographs of the ”golf balls” being built. Image courtesy of Geoffrey Powell. |
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