South Skelton mine is shown in the image and Simon Chapman advised us: “The mine was electrified 1912 – 1914, so the picture was taken before those dates.”.
Image courtesy of Mike Holliday and thanks to Simon Chapman for the update.
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Five men taking a break from mining to have their photograph taken, we can clearly see the pit props and the candle held in place with boulder clay. We can surmise the man on the left of the photograph is the deputy, as he is the one with the Davy lamp and the roof probe, the other men would have been known as fillers. The front two men are sitting on their midges, a three-sided box with a candle in it (the only light they had to work by). No safety helmets are worn by any of the men as the compulsory wearing of safety helmets had not yet been introduced. This is the same group of men that we see in another underground photograph.
Another piece of the jigsaw – this image includes the two ”trappy” lads from a previous post and the Archive originally posted this image believing it to be of miners from Loftus mine; however Simon Chapman has advised us it is the miners from Grinkle mine which was owned by Sir Mark Palmer of Grinkle Park. Interestingly it looks as if it is also part of a larger image and hopefully at some time the Archive will find the complete picture, in the mean time can anybody name any of these people? With thanks to Simon Chapman for the correction.
A miner and his loader and a full tub of stone; overhead two shattered roof supports. The Archive’s question yet again is; does anybody know their names?
It’s getting a bit repetitious now! Looking towards the loading bay this time we have more of the jetty workforce – can you name them?
This image of the workforce of the jetty was taken from the Jetty platform looking up the incline towards the engine house. The Archive’s question is: can anybody name them?
This is the image that everybody has seen at some time. Taken half-way up the rope incline from the works it shows two rakes of pig iron bogies, one of the company steam tramps and the dock-side cranes. Taken by George Skilbeck, photographically the incline trackway leads the eye into the image and out through the curve of the jetty, which is probably why it has stood the test of time; it has good artistic composition. Unfortunately this image had been ‘cropped’ before receipt to the Archive and continue to hope for an original undamaged image.
How many people have spent many a happy night fishing off the end of this old structure; passing through a period of looking the worse for wear and lack of maintenance, it is now restored to its former glory. Here it is in it’s heyday, the coffee-pot locomotive steaming away and a rake of pig iron bogies waiting to load. The steam cranes are working on one of the company ships and a good solid industrial image.
Once again the obvious question – can you name these men – with the exception of Jack Harrison? Back Row: ??, ??, John (Jack) Harrison, ??, ??, ??, ??. Front Row: ??, ??, ??, Capt. Fryatt, ??. We are told by David Richardson: ”One of the crew may be Thomas Gifford. His marriage certificate (1899) gives his usual residence as being SS Skinningrove.” Image courtesy of Eric Johnson and thanks to David Richardson for the update.
An extremely clean SS Skinningrove moored at Skinningrove jetty. It was the first of the four steamers owned by The Skinningrove Iron Company; she was employed carrying pig iron to the Company’s customers. Image courtesy of the Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum. |
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