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All Lit Up

No names on this photograph when loaned to us by George Pearson; believed to be underground at Lingdale Mine. Rachel Lee and Cathy Hood tell us: ”Far left is our Grandad, John Edward (Nap) Hood of Boosbeck.”

Can you name anyone?

Image courtesy of George Pearson and many thanks to Rachel Lee and Cathy Hood for the naming update.

Ready for Action

At the back is John (Jack Lem) Grey, left front Charles Powell (Charlie) Smith, and last but not least Edward Isaac (Ted) Money all in their Home Guard uniforms and looking rather serious.

Image courtesy Joan Jemson.

Splodging

An Edwardian seaside postcard with unsuitably dressed holiday visitors enjoying a paddle in the briny.

Postcard courtesy of Pat Bennison.

Timm’s Coffee House

Timms Coffee House, Skinningrove. A grade 2 listed building, built as Skinningrove Hall in 1704 to replace the Old Hall of the 1500s (now the Post Office) for the Easterby family. The Maynard family developed it as a hotel in the 1800s and named it Timms Coffee House after the coffee houses then popular in London. Karen Houdek tells us: ”The family owners leased the building to Martha Allinson, who transferred her ale license for the Buck Inn to the Skinningrove Hall building in 1875.  She and her husband George were proprietors of Timm’s Coffee House and Public House, in a different building in the 1861 census.  By the 1871 census their business was called the Buck’s Hotel. Martha ran the business solely when George died in 1872.  In September of 1875 her application to Magistrates to transfer her license from the Buck Inn to Skinningrove Old Hall was granted. The business was turned over to Martha and George’s son John sometime b/t the 1881 census and 1890, as listed in the 1890 Kelly’s Directory. Per the 1891 census Martha has moved to Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire with her son William, and eventually dies in Middlesbrough in 1908. (An interesting little tidbit about the ties of the two families is found in the 1871 census, in which Martha and George’s daughter Margaret was employed as a servant for the Maynard family.)  John dies in April of 1890, and his wife Sarah runs the establishment until her death in August of 1901. The 1911 census shows George Hall as the proprietor.  The Halls are loosely connected to the Allinsons through marriage, with David Hall (George’s uncle), b. 1852 being married to John Allinson’s sister Ann Elizabeth, b. 1851.” Joanne Nelson advises: “Jack Shepherdson was my mothers Carolyn Susan Shepherdson and my Uncle, John William Shepherdsons’ father. He later married Jill Wheatleys Gran when my Grandma Winnifred and Jack divorced following the war. Jack was in the Green Howards and fought a long and hard war part of which was liberating Bergen Belsen in Germany. Prior to this he was a professional cricketer who was encouraged by Lord Cayleigh, Brompton to go over the hills to play professionally at Normanby Hall. He took lodgings with my Great, Great Gran and fell in love with Winnifred Morgan Grange, my Grandma. I visited Timms coffee house as a child.” Jill Wheatley tells us ” My gran and grandad – John (Jack) Shepherd – used to own Timms fro  1959 to 1975. I have many great memories of staying at Timm’s from a baby till I was in my teens. Gran and Jack then moved into the village and we would keep in close contact with them. Visiting them very often. Timm’s Coffee House still exists in bricks and mortar but the name has been changed.”

Image courtesy of Ken Loughran from a photograph taken in June 1964, many thanks to Karen Houdek, Jill Wheatley and Joanne Nelson for the updates.

Ladies in The Garden

Mrs Harmer’s garden to be precise; at bank top Loftus; in front of St Hilda’s Terrace. Can anybody assist with names?

Far right Mrs Waite.

Lady sat on the grass is possibly identified as Mrs Olive Cocks (of Carlin How).

Image courtesy of Pat Bennison.

Church Party

The paper party hats of two people, suggest the photograph is of an older generation’s event, the clergy man in the middle means a Church do. But who, what and where; we ask for help to identify and to date: Sheila Harris (nee Potts) tells us: ” The clergyman is the Rev. G. Simpson, Anglican Rector of Loftus. The lady standing on the right next to the tall white-haired man is Alice Cowen, my grandmother’s aunt. She lived at 3, Chapel Row, Loftus.” Jennifer Housam tells us: ”The lady fourth from the right, second row from the back, just peeping through is my grandma; Mary Jane McLean. I know my grandma used to talk about going to the ’Bright Hour’. She died age 92 in 1970.” Eric Trembath tells us: ”The gentleman bottom row on left in dark suit is my great-grandfather William Arthur Trembath; a Cornish tin miner born 1851 in St Buryan Cornwall, the lady second row third from left looking over his shoulder is his wife Martha Ann Stainthorpe, a Loftus lass who he married in 1897 at Guisborough. They had five children, I always remember my grandad telling me he was very strict and they always refer to him as pa.” Whilst Steven Henderson advises: “Alice Cowen is my great grandmother her son William (Bill) was my grandad.”

Image courtesy of Pat Bennison and thanks to Sheila Harris, Jennifer Housam, Eric Trembath and Steven Henderson for the updates.

Three Young Ladies

Three daring young ladies, The disproving comment sums up the attitude of victorian values. I wonder what they would make of todays beach wear.

Postcard courtesy of Pat Bennison.

Skinningrove Village

A pre Great War postcard view of Skinningrove Valley. The Miner’s Hospital is prominent at the bottom right.

Postcard courtesy Alan Richardson.

South Bank F.C. Ground

Thomas Davies (3rd left bottom row) with officials, etc., from Messr’s Bolckow Vaughan’s; believed to have been taken at Normanby Road football ground. The occasion is not known.

Photograph courtesy Alan Richardson.

Danby Castle

Dating from around 1270,  Danby Castle was more a fortified manor house than a castle. Much of the building has disappeared over the years. Lords of the Manor were De Brus, De Thweng, and the Latimer familys. One interesting resident was Katherine Parr, after her second husband Lord John Latimer died, she married King Henry the VIII and survived the experience.

Postcard courtesy of Pat Bennison.