An early 20th century view of the Ship Inn, with an array of fishing cobles pulled up along side the road. The former Rocket House and Mortuary are both clearly visible, as is a footpath up along the seaward side of Cat Nab from where this postcard view was obviously taken. Nicholas Millington believes : ”Looking at those cars I’d say 1934?”. Callum Duff has advised us: ”Both this postcard and the one below are most likely to be post World War II. The once-fashionable bathing machines were retired in the early 20th Century and were lined up between The Ship Inn and Cat Nab, across the road from the mortuary and rocket brigade where they were either used for storage or by courting couples! They had all been removed by the end of the war and there is no sign of them in either of these postcards. A book by Major J. Fairfax Blakeborough called ‘The Story & Tradition of Old Saltburn’s Ship Inn’ was published in 1948 and uses the postcard above as one of its illustrations so I assume that the photograph was taken around that year.”
Image courtesy of Maurice Grayson, thanks to Nicholas Millington and Callum Duff for the updates on a possible date.
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