Eric Johnson advised: “The locomotive is an “P” class North Eastern Railway engine. built at Gateshead. the tender has L.N.E.R. painted on, so photograph is after 1923. Bloworth crossing is near Ingleby Incline (Battersby to Rosedale mineral line).” Bloworth Crossing is a familiar name to all those who have trod the Lyke Wyke Walk or undertaken the Cleveland Way. It mark a crossing point for the original mineral railway by several ancient routes.
Image courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum, thanks to Eric Johnson for the update.
A rather cold and lonely view of Blakey station, from the William Hayes collection of postcards, the Archive asked: “Where was Blakey station?” Russ Pigott tells us: ”Blakey station was near where the Farndale road turns off the ‘Blakey Road’ There is still the wall of one side of the bridge which took the road over the railway. The ‘station’ was the junction where the Rosedale East and West Branches separated. Nothing now remains of the buildings on the site.” David Richardson agreed with this siting, adding: “The area is now a car park.”
Image courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum, thanks to Adam Cuthbert, Russ Pigott and David Richardson for the updates.
Difficult to say which Company owned this bus, but if it was the Loftus Company, then they eventually went bust and their assets were obtained by Mr Keith Watson at Saltburn. When his Bus enterprise failed they were all bought up by what went on to become The Saltburn Motor Services being taken over in August 1974 by Cleveland Transit. This company in turn becoming part of the Stagecoach group which no longer serves East Cleveland. How the wheels turn.
Image courtesy of Stan Ward (via Carlin How Community Centre), thanks to Chris Hall for his update.
The top of the Ingleby Incline and all people available are posed for the camera; dated very precisely by William Hayes (of Rosedale) a noted local photographer .
All can now be identified: back row: R. Mayman, W. Holliday, L. Ashman, W. Scott, J. W. Featherstone.
Front row: W. Mayman, Mrs J. W. (Tamara) Featherstone, J. E. Featherstone, J. Watson, W. Sunley.
Image courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum, names courtesy of ‘Rosedale Mines and Railway by R. H. Hayes and J. G. Rutter’.
North Eastern Railway Terminus 1,000 feet above sea level and that is as much as I know about it and I read that off the caption. Now believed to be on the Rosedale end of the Rosedale to Ingleby Greenhow railway system. Thanks to Mark T for the update.
Rodney Begg tells us: ”Scarborough Archaeological Publication “Research Report No. 9″ on the Rosedale Mines and Railway: “West Rosedale Bank Top, circa 1911. Engine shed on left and railway cottages on right. Snow-ploughs on siding with traces of other sidings formerly extending to calcining kilns.” The cottages still exist and were inhabited last time I visited the area (some while back now). A good way to get to this area and enjoy a walk as well is to join the track bed across the road from The Lion Inn on Blakey Ridge and turn right. Follow the track bed and eventually you will end up at this; the terminus at West Rosedale. On the way you will visit the site of Sheriff’s Pit, the only shaft mine in this system.”
Image courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum and thanks to Rodney Begg for the update.
A busy day at Rosedale works I am informed that the west works started in 1857 and the east side in 1859. Simon Chapman advises: ”This is a view of the Rosedale East Mines in the 1920s. Central in the picture is a chute for loading ironstone direct into railway wagons, while in the background, behind the white hut, a gantry spans the railway; this was the apparatus for recovering the calcine dust from below the iron-fronted or New Kilns. The wagons in the foreground are empty tubs from out of the pit. Right in the background, behind the ramshackle tipping huts, can be seen the cottages and workshops at High Baring. The Rosedale West Mines opened in the mid-1850s and the East Mines about 1865.” Image courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum, grateful thanks to Simon Chapman for the dating information.
14 years or more years on (originally titled Cragg Hall 1972) and quite a few differences from the previous photograph of Cragg Hall, judging by Russell Pigott’s comment: ”Its a lot later than 1972 I reckon summer 1987, If you blow the picture up it seems to be me in the second man’s seat! We got the 20s late 1986 if I remember right and I did my driver training in 1988. It may not be me in the picture so it could date it as late as 1990”
Thanks to Russ Pigott for the update and probable date of the image.
The Archive what the locomotive was as it awaits a signal change at Cragg Hall signal box in 1958; Russell Piggot has assisted in identifying the train as: “A Q6 Class 6 0-8-0.”
As the caption says it’s Huntcliff mine 1906, although the fan was dismantled, the building “Huntcliffe Guibal Fan House” is a scheduled monument; continuing to stand adjacent to the railway line skirting Warsett Hill. It is clearly visible to many as they travel around the area, particularly when passing from Carlin How towards Brotton.
Image courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum and other collections.
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