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The Hall, Marske; built in 1625 for Sir William Pennyman, it became a Leonard Cheshire Home for disabled people; named from the R.A.F Victoria Cross winner Group Captain Cheshire. This postcard view bears the heading on teh reverse ’Greetings from Marske-by-the-sea’. Nigel Anderson remembers: “I was a student at this building when it was a school. I was there from 1950 to 1953. At that time the building was not in the best state of repair and always freezing! Punishment was to sit in the winter, with short trousers on the stone flag floor in the Hall. At the end of that you had to be helped up as you were frozen to the floor! There was a vegetable garden to the side where children were encouraged to help out. Very large draughty dormitories. Only pleasure was the organised horse riding along the magnificent sands at Marske.”
Image courtesy of Kim Whaley, thanks to Nigel Anderson for the update.
Zetland Road Loftus 1950’s. A stark contrast to the present day, every shop on both sides of the street and further up Zetland Road were a thriving business. Possibly only Bramwell’s (formally Halton’s) are still in the same trade on the same premises.
A Skillbeck postcard courtesy of Maurice Grayson.
Market Place Loftus sometime in the 1930s; this based on the presence of Cammell’s and Race’s shops where post 1938 was the Regal cinema. A United bus waits at the stop near the Golden Lion Hotel; Parrot’s ironmongers (now the Post Office) is in front of the bus. Is it the Co-op Delivery on the bicycle?
Image courtesy of the Basil Webster Collection.
A tinted postcard looking up Staithes beck, with the old footbridge to Cowbar side. The railway bridge in the distance and in the beck a double ended coble is being rowed towards the sea.
A Watson or Wilson postcard courtesy of Maurice Grayson.
Sandsend; a late 1960s or early 1970s view. The old railway track in front of the former station shows plenty of vegetation growth.
Image courtesy of Maurice Grayson.
Upleatham old church a fragment of it’s original size. Of the Norman era, there are carved heads on the north side. The tower was a rebuild in the 17th century; Upleatham was a ”Soke” belonging to Loftus manor in Saxon times.
Image courtesy of Maurice Grayson.
Loftus water mill on Gaskell Lane; there has been a mill on this site since medieval times. The water to power the mill came from a pond above the waterfall along a leat to a second pond and then along a second leat to the waterwheel believed to be an overshot wheel, the most efficient type. Most of the machinery is still in situ, by courtesy of the present owner. An historic part of Loftus deserving of preservation, this image is from a George Skilbeck postcard.
Image courtesy of Maurice Grayson.
Taken in the mid to late 1920s this view of the mason’s yard shows Edgar Colbeck (on right) who was apprenticed to William Arrowsmith.
Image courtesy of Christopher Colbeck.
Jeff’s daughter Kathryn and her husband Andrew Sargeant on their wedding day.
Image courtesy of Jeff Templeman.
Jeff’ Templeman’s son Andrew and his bride Rachel on their wedding day.
Image courtesy of Jeff Templeman.
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