This is a well-balanced photograph (a picture postcard believed to have been produced by T. C. Booth of Loftus) of Liverton Gardens, in the valley between Liverton and Moorsholm. It was a market garden, you can see the glass-house middle-left of the image. The house visible in the picture is a semi-detached residence, each ”semi” being a mirror-image of the other. Rodney Begg tells us: ”My wife and her brother were born here in the ’50s and they lived a while here with their Grand-parents before moving to Dodder Carr cottages.” Stan Glover advises: ”The houses are called Ponoma Villa (right hand side looking at picture), and Ponoma Cottage. The Shaw brothers Harry (Ponoma Cottage) and Ces (Liverton Mill) lived in the houses. We rented Ponoma Villa mid 1950′s to 1970′s. The reference to Shaw’s falls (re Liverton Waterfall) reflected that the land was owned by Ces Shaw.” The Falls were a noted local beauty spot and often visited. Ann Johnson adds: “I remember Harry Shaw he used to come to Moorsholm with his horse and cart.”
Image courtesy of Beryl Morris, thanks to Rodney Begg, Stan Glover and Ann Johnson for the updates.
In researching family history I discovered that my Father (Herbert Heseltine) took my Mother(Olive Tyler) to Liverton Mill on his motorbike in 1935 just before he proposed to her but I cannot find any information or photos about this place to use – can you help? Plenty about the mines but not about the Mill or why it was somewhere for them to have one of their ‘outings’ They both lived in North Ormesby in Middlesbrough at the time
Hi Anne Liverton Mill is between Moorsholm and Liverton. You can get to it on the road from Liverton to Moorsholm or alternatively go to Moorsholm via the A171 and take the turn off opposite Freeborough Hill and go into Moorsholm village. Drive straight through and follow the road to a steep bank Liverton Mill is on the side of the road at the bottom of the bank. It’s a private house now. If you keep on that road it will take you to Liverton.
Hope that helps Ann