We know the date, we know it is the Station Hotel, Brotton and the Darts Team. Trevor Metcalfe tells us: ”The man just above the 1952 is my grandfather Joe Metcalfe, a resident of Brotton when the photograph was taken, but in his working life was an ironstone miner at Bell’s mine Carlin How and lived in one of Bells huts.” The rest we asked for assistance in completing; the gentleman holding the blackboard is in Chelsea pensioner uniform. Norman Patton assisted advising: ”Man in uniform at the front has obviously escaped from the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. He is a Chelsea Pensioner”. David Manship has advised the Archive: ” The man on the left of the picture smoking a pipe is Tom Verrill; he lived about 100 yards from the Station pub, just past the High Wall”. Christopher Colbeck assists with: “The man to the left of the group with a moustache Was the grandfather of my wife. Francis Joseph WILSON. As late as 1939 in the war census he was living at 10 Railway Street. He was a lifelong ironstone miner. Francis J Wilson remained in Brotton and died in 1958. He had a son Arthur Wilson who was employed as a labourer and who died in 1954.”
Image courtesy of Trevor Metcalfe and many thanks to Norman Patton, David Manship and Christopher Colbeck for the for the updates.
The remains of the alum quarry at Boulby, although the pyramid shape at the top of the photograph is such a prominent feature of this part of the site, it is not in fact anything special. It appears to be sitting on top of a general quarrying level but is only composed of earth and stones from above the alum shale layer. It is a tip of overburden dumped here to allow the sandstone from beneath its original position to be removed and thus expose the alum shale. It has probably been a larger tip originally which has been eroded to its current distinctive shape. It was probably formed by building out a wooden gantry from the cliff face so that the removed material could be dumped well clear of the intended quarry face.
Image courtesy of Alan Richardson and information kindly supplied by Simon Chapman.
A close up of Mr Severs, at Roxby Smithy, fixing the shoe to the hoof of the patiently waiting horse. Gareth Severs tells us: ”Really pleased I have found this picture, this is my Great Grandad. He was the Blacksmith at Turton Cottages, Roxby. I have seen other pictures of him and also Mr Jack Welford (Jack America) with his horses outside the Blacksmiths.”
Image courtesy of Alan Richardson and many thanks to Gareth Severs for the update.
The Blacksmiths Shop at Roxby, with the distinctive entrance in the shape of a horseshoe, with the date 1858 above the arch. The Blacksmith is now known to be Mr Severs. Carole Ann Leslie tells us: ”That photograph was not taken in the year 2000, as Mr Herbert Severs had died 20 years or more before that. The horse looks very much like Dolly, my Father and uncle Robert’s working, or cart horse as they were called. Their farm; Home Farm was just down the hill in Roxby. It will be around 1946 I would think”. Oliver Richardson has told us: ” I am not sure why the year 2000 was attached to it. My father probably took it in the 1950s or 1960s”.
Image courtesy of Alan Richardson, thanks to Carole Ann Leslie and Oliver Richardson for the updates.
Loftus Hall; built in the the area now known as Hall Grounds, Loftus. Around 1840 Sir Robert Dundas decided to build a new hall and enclosed a piece of land stretching from the bottom to the top of Church Bank, along the High Street veering to the left of Jasmine Cottage and then back to the woods almost as far as the mill, effectively cutting off Liverton Road, which ran down behind the present library. The route to Liverton was re-sited on Station Road.. Apart from being a local landowner, Sir Robert Dundas was also proprietor of the Lofthouse Alum Works.Peter Appleton has advised: “Sir Robert Lawrence Dundas (1780-1844) inherited the manor of Loftus from his father, Sir Thomas Dundas (1741-1820). By 1829, he had moved his home to Upleatham Hall. His land agent for the manor of Loftus then had use of Loftus Hall as their home. Communication between Sir Robert and his agent was carried out through a memo book system. Sir Robert would write his questions on one page and the agent would place his answers on the opposite page, followed by any requests. On his next visit, Sir Robert would respond to the agent’s requests and then add his own questions, and so it went on. At least one of these memo books has survived and is in the archives at Northallerton. A brief perusal of it indicated that Sir Robert visited Loftus approximately once a week, sometimes more frequently. When Sir Robert Lawrence Dundas died, he passed his manor of Loftus to his nephew, Sir Thomas Dundas (1795-1893), son of his elder brother Sir Lawrence Dundas (1766-1839).”
Image courtesy of Alan Richardson, additional information courtesy of Jean Wiggins; thanks also to Peter Appleton for the update details on the Dundas family.
Saltburn showing an alternative way to the beach instead of using the cliff lift, some of the paths from the top promenade are now alas no longer usable. On the beach several bathing huts can be seen, one is being hauled by horse back to the slipway near the Ship Inn, date is pre World War I.
Primitive Methodist Chapel and school at Mill bank top, Loftus. This fine building had a short life; it was destroyed in a landslip in 1927. There are images elsewhere on the Archive of the aftermath of the slip. Adam Cuthbert commented: “Never seen a photograph of this before. It looks like this is where the park is now at top of the hill? Are there any photographs of the petrol station that was on the other side of the road?”
Image courtesy of Pat Bennison, thanks to Adam Cuthbert for the update.
Redcar Pier built in 1873, with a crowd of spectators living dangerously leaning on the railings, watching the large wave about to give them a soaking.
I don’t know where this photograph was taken maybe you can help and tell us where it is. I do know the girls here: on the wall is Anne Wilson and I think Marilyn Eddon. Standing in front are Ann Shaw and Pat Collins those are the maiden names of the girls.
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