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 Perhaps for a fete or a special event; all the outfits appear to reperesent supporters of the Allies in the First World War: Back row: ??, Australia, ??, Britannia, Canadian?, ??, New Zealand? Middle row: ??, ??, Wales, Portuguese. Front row: Japan, Serbia, USA, Italy. Image courtesy of Michael Garbutt.  How proud he looks with presumeably his children on his knee. We are unsure as to whether it is girl and boy or two of either? Can you help? Image kindly loaned by Michael Garbutt.  We think this house is located on Slaters Bank, but would welcome a positive identification. Image kindly loaned by Michael Garbutt.  Is this a father and son scene or friends out in the wood? In ”pursuit of game?”, maybe. Any assistance in name and placing the image would be welcomed. Image courtesy of Michael Garbutt.  Perhaps a birthday? But agin no idea of whom, where or when. Can our viewers assist? Image kindly loaned by Michael Garbutt.  Again we have a pastoral theme to our image, but how smart they seem. Much to well dressed for a rural perambulation or even a ramble, despite the basket of vegetation so firmly grasped by one of the participants. Help with either location or those in the picture would be of assistance. Image courtesy of Michael Garbutt.  Photograph taken about 1900, We believe this is Jonathon Hartley the miller of Loftus Mill, (no mistaking him on the image), hence the name “Hartley’s field” for the adjacent pasture land. His widow still owned the Mill in 1905. Image kindly loaned by Michael Garbutt.  A late Victorian Image looking from South Loftus. In the distance centre can be seen Skinningrove furnaces. On the far left is the North Loftus Mine with steam rising from the engine. In the middle distance to the right of the bridge, thate field is now part of the Arlington estate. The wooden bridge over the railway was rebuilt in concrete. Image courtesy of Michael Garbutt.  One for the train spotters! This early view of Loftus Station appears to date from just after the extension of the line to Whitby, with the Train on the Middlesbrough bound line obscured by steam. The embankment looks new with little vegetation growth. The engine looks to be an 0-6-0 tender locomotive, the position of the springs on the tender, and square spectacle windows in the cab could give a clue to the class of locomotive? Our expert viewers will give us their opinion, please. Gareth Spencer comments: “My first thought was the locomotive is likely to have been one of Edward Fletcher’s four-coupled passenger engines as modernized under McDonnell, which would account for the square spectacle windows, as seen running c.1900. I am not conversant with the details of Fletcher’s locomotives, but there were several classes of this type of passenger engine on the North Eastern Railway. One such engine of 1873 is preserved in original condition, plus one of the later Tennant 2-4-0s of 1885, which the locomotive in the photograph is definitely not.” and later added: “Most likely a member of the 901 class, one of 55 engines constructed between 1872 and 1882 by the NER at Gateshead works, by Beyer Peacock & Co, and also Neilson & Co. The extant example No.910, restored for the Stockton and Darlington Centenary, was a Gateshead product of April 1875 and has square spectacle windows. A photograph of No.908 shows a cab with round spectacles. McDonnell adopted Ramsbottom safety valves as standard and introduced them to the 901 class, which later received a new design of boiler and new cylinders, thus altering their appearance. The 1440 class (15 engines) was similar, they had 6ft. diameter driving wheels, whereas the 901 class had 7ft driving wheels. Source LNER Encyclopaedia (Internet).” Image Courtesy of Michael Garbutt; thanks to Gareth Spencer for the updates.  This group of officers appears a fine body of men, perhaps the Yorkshire Regiment? Again the building behind is intriguing. Can anybody assist with names and possible regisment? Ed Jones tells us: ”This is a group of officers. The battalion commander, a Lieutenant Colonel, is in the front centre. They are not in combat and it is probably a training camp pre-war or in the early years of WW1. It is hard to see the cap badge. It resembles a Royal Engineers Capbadge, but they do not have the grenade collar badge. The nearest guess is the York and Lancaster Regiment, which features a lion and a rose (“cat & cabbage”) in a laurel wreath.” Image courtesy of Michael Garbutt and many thanks to Ed Jones for the update. |
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