T. Wakefield is the name on the sign and by what is written on there he was watchmaker, jeweller and optician. Next to him ”The Noted Cheap Shop – articles suitable for presents”, wonder if that was the £ shop of yesteryear? This now being the location of William Hill (the Bookmakers!); this post is a closer view of part of the junction beside Redcar Clock as mentioned in “High Street”
Image courtesy of Mike Holliday.
One interesting feature of this often-seen image is the building that Wakefield is part of, particularly the part with the big ventilation box on the roof. This is the original Redcar railway station, and the line from Middlesbrough terminated here. That portico just seen jutting out on the left of the image was part of it. When the line was extended to Saltburn it had to go around Redcar, and so a new station was built on West Dyke Road where the present one currently is. Even so, for a short while the old station remained in use for holiday excursion trains and non-passenger traffic.