{"id":57054,"date":"2009-12-10T22:12:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T22:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=57054"},"modified":"2019-07-20T17:17:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T16:17:33","slug":"at-no-6-boulby-cottages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=57054","title":{"rendered":"At No. 6 Boulby Cottages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60341\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01.-Ray-Grandmother-a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1759\" height=\"956\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01.-Ray-Grandmother-a-1.jpg 1759w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01.-Ray-Grandmother-a-1-300x163.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01.-Ray-Grandmother-a-1-552x300.jpg 552w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01.-Ray-Grandmother-a-1-150x82.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01.-Ray-Grandmother-a-1-400x217.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1759px) 100vw, 1759px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grandmother Katie Easton holding a very young Ray Conn at 6 Boulby Cottages. The cottages, known locally as Tin City, were listed in the 1911 census as Iron Cottages.\u00a0 They were built by Skinningrove Iron Company to house\u00a0 the miners working at the Boulby Ironstone Mine.\u00a0 The first ones were occupied\u00a0by the end of 1906.\u00a0 They were semi-detached bungalows\u00a0built from corrugated iron sheeting on timber frames, standing\u00a0on concrete foundations.\u00a0The Boulby Mine finally\u00a0closed in 1934 and\u00a0in October 1936 The Ministry of Health issued a demolition order as part of a \u201dslum clearance scheme\u201d; much to the residents displeasure. Over the next few years the tenants moved out and the cottages were demolished.\u00a0 Ray Conn\u00a0has told us that\u00a0tin sheets and timber went to Wards Farm at Roxby and were used to build a large shed. Anthony Mugfordf tells us: &#8220;I discovered a relative \u2013 Thomas Mugford \u2013 who was an ironstone miner, who lived with his family at number 8. There was Thomas, wife Gertrude, adult son Thomas and children Gertrud, Dora, Florence, Lavinia and Hilda.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Mr. Ray Conn, additional information courtesy of cuttings from Northern Echo 24th October 1937 and materials courtesy of Eric Jackson; also to Anthony Mugford for the update.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Grandmother Katie Easton holding a very young Ray Conn at 6 Boulby Cottages. The cottages, known locally as Tin City, were listed in the 1911 census as Iron Cottages. They were built by Skinningrove Iron Company to house the miners working at the Boulby Ironstone Mine. The first ones were occupied by the end [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boulby-people","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60342,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57054\/revisions\/60342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}