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Back row: Jackie Toole, Matty Miller, Bill Hyde, Martin Green, Dave Partlett, Gerry Pearson, Jimmy Cush, Norman Myers.
Third row: Paul Redway (Managing Director Skinningrove Works), Albert Atkinson, Brian Ferguson, Norman Dales.
Second row: ??, ??, Doreen Turnbull, ??, Marianna Worton, Dr Etches.
Front row: Harold Found, ??, ??, Danny Simpson.
Brian Young tells us: ”This is possibly a First Aid presentation, a few of these worked in the medica centre.” Help is needed with names and identification of the cup.
Image courtesy Dave McGill, also thanks to Brian Young, Bob Doe, Barbara McBurney, Eric Trembath and Col Hart for the updates.
An obvious presentation, possibly First Aid as suggested by George Brown; but to whom, when and why?
Back row: Mr Cuthbert, Norman Myers,??, Dave Partlet.
Front row: Jim Easton, Albert Atkinson, Bart Groves, Brian Fergus on, Inga Cook.
We have added some names, but can anybody help?
Image courtesy of Dave McGill, names to date supplied by Eric Johnson, George Brown and Colin Hart.
A photograph loaned to us by Dave Mc Gill, we asked: “Who is he and what was his job at Skinningrove Iron and Steel works?” Brian Young told us: ”I believe this is ? King works manager at the time.” Bob Doe assisted by telling us: ”He was the works manager and his first name was Bob”
Image courtesy of Dave McGill, thanks to Brian Young and Bob Doe for the updates.
A lovely photograph of Mrs Yarker from Carlin How, long time member of the St. John’s Ambulance. Further to Derick Pearson’s comment; researches have shown that Mrs Dorothy M. Yarker was born Dorothy Mary Duffy in 1917, marry Charles Henry Yarker in 1937; she qualified as a Nurse in 1946, and the 1939 Census lists her and her husband Charles (who during WW II was a crane driver at Skinningrove works) living at 68 Gladstone Street, Carlin How. Sadly Mrs Yarker left us in 1972.
Image courtesy of Dave McGill, updating information courtesy of Ancestry UK and other sources.
This image of Loftus Foundry is part of a series taken by Eric Johnson around the area; featuring Loftus views. We will be displaying more as time passes, showing the changes in the area.
Image courtesy of Eric Johnson.
On the sand bed in front of the furnaces, a slinger guides a lift of pig iron. It was normal to use a flap of leather looped over the wrist to protect the hand from the still hot pig iron. The sand bed is cool enough to not need the wooden clogs normally worn; behind the slinger the impressions of the sow and pig channels can be seen in the sand bed.
Image (from a Glass Plate Negative) courtesy of Dave Mcgill.
When the furnace has finished casting, the pigs are attached to the sow and the crew have to go around and break them off and heap them together, using the tongs they are holding and stack them into bundles ready for slinging. A hard physical task.
Image (from a glass plate negative) courtesy Dave McGill.
On the sand bed; with the gate irons in place ready to divert the flow of metal to fill the pig moulds. The furnace is preparing to cast. As one sow channel is filled, the gate is placed to divert the flow of molten iron to the next sow channel.
Image (from a Glass Plate Negative) courtesy of Dave Mcgill.
These two men are preparing the sand runners (sows) and moulds (pigs) to receive the molten Iron from the blast furnace. The man on the left is raking the sand smooth, to the right the man is using a tool known as the ‘Worker’ making the mould for the pig. Ed Jones commented: “This pig-bed sequence may well be the Normanby Ironworks as there is a large travelling crane gantry seen on all the photos and the OS 6″ map (surveyed 1913) shows a travelling crane at those works.” However knowing the source of all these images as being Skinningrove works, the Archive believes these are the blast furnaces at Skinningrove.
Glass Plate Negative courtesy Dave Mcgill, thanks to Ed Jones for the suggestion.
Believed to be the old No 5 Furnace, at Skinningrove, with one ladle full the second one is being filled. Using Cleveland ironstone; up to one and a half tons of slag were produced for every ton of Iron.
Image (from a Glass Plate Negative) courtesy Dave Mcgill.
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