Skinningrove Beach; with the jetty, in much better condition than the present day.
Image courtesy of Ken Loughran.
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 The sea wall defences nearing completion at Skinningrove Jetty. Image courtesy of Ken Loughran.  Rebuilding and strengthening the sea wall at Skinningrove, date not known. Image courtesy of Ken Loughran.  Work on the sea wall at Skinningrove, with one of the cranes at work on the jetty. Image courtesy of Ken Loughran.  Skinningrove Beck in flood downstream from the gas holders. Image courtesy of Ken Loughran.  Skinningrove beck in full spate, a sight becoming more common now in recent years. The Gas House extension looks to be flooding. Kev Hamlinton also informs us:” This picture shows the old pumphouse at the end of Angling Green.” Image courtesy of Ken Loughran and thanks to Kev Hamlinton for that information.  Removing the rails from the bridge down to Skinningrove on the Zig Zag railway, just below the hairpin bend on Carlin How bank. Work undertaken by Darlington District Engineers Department, prior to the bridges demolition, about 1958. Image courtesy of Ken Loughran.  Realigning the road at the bottom of Mill Bank Loftus, around 1958. With Kelly Watsons Bus (Saltburn Motor Services ) in the dip. The bridge was widened at the same time. Image courtesy of Ken Loughran.  Believed to be the result of an accident on the Skinningrove Zig Zag Line. The hopper wagon in the photograph contains coke breeze, perhaps from the Skinningrove Gas Works; the image is believed to date from pre the Great War. Image courtesy of Pat Bennison.  This is a page from the war diary of the Canadian Expeditionary force, as you can see it is dated 1915. There are lots of pages and very interesting reading they are. I will only publish one but they are available on line to read. Image courtesy of Ancestry (via Joan Jemson). |
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