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This image (from an A. C. Bruce postcard) featured in a Loftus Town Crier calendar with the commentary of: “Farm house and buildings at Hummersea. This farm is situated between North Terrace and the Coast Guard cottages. The farm was a place to rest for a lot of people who had climbed up from the beach.” The Archive asked: “Where were the coast guard’s cottages? Does anybody recognise the two people in the doorway?”
Eric Johnson advised: “Of interest in the photograph, are the upstairs windows, they are of the ’Yorkshire’ sash type; in which as can be seen in three of them, the lower left hand panes open ”sideways” by sliding to the right. unlike normal sash windows with the upper panes sliding up and down. I think the coastguard cottages are now known as Warren Cottages towards the alum quarry.”
Image courtesy of Loftus Town Crier, many thanks to Eric Johnson for the update.
Another idyllic setting; this from a hand tinted postcard view of Hummersea Farm, today much altered and improved from this scene. Although the farm still remains secluded and peaceful.
Image courtesy of Jean Dean.
A colour-tinted view looking over Hummersea Farm towards Boulby, with Snilah Ponds catching the light above Hummersea Bay.
Image courtesy of Bery Morris.
The postcard caption says ’Farm near Boulby Cliff’, it is confirmed as Hummersea Farm; but is there anything else significant?
Anne Cammidge tells us: ”The photograph shows the old cow byre buildings of Hummersea Farm. The building to the right was where the grain was kept and the flour grinder. The main farmhouse is set in the hill behind the trees. My mother Annie Hart was born and brought up here with sisters, Elsie, Ada, Mary, Hilda and brother Tommy Hart who eventually bought the farm from Lord Zetland. Uncle Tommy retired in the mid 1980’s when he moved to Easington.”
Holly Enticknap has the following memories: ”We converted the cow byre into our home, and called it The Barns. I’ll always remember there was a bottle stuck to the wall in the cow bier, about 20feet up! We never did figure out why it was there as there was no way to reach that height without ladders?”.
Image courtesy of Josie Etches, thanks to Anne Cammidge and Holly Enticknap for the updates.
A different view of Hummersea Farm we see today, now much changed with a larger range of dwelling houses. In the distance beyond Snilah ponds is The Warren.
Holly Enticknap tells us: ”We lived in the barn on the right hand side, we converted it into our house, it took eight years to complete!”
Image courtesy of Louise Withnell and thanks to Holly Enticknap for the update.
The caption says it all – the favourite occupation of all sea-side dwelling children – splodging!
Yes it really is a beached whale; this photograph was taken about in May 2010 at the foot of the cliffs leading from Hummersea beach towards Boulby.
Image courtesy of Julie Morrison.
Hasn’t changed much has it? Only the name of the butchers has changed a few times over the years.
Image from a collection compiled by Derick Pearson.
North Road (earlier called Lambs Lane) around 1900 – from a T.C. Booth of Loftus postcard – the date being assumed from the postmark which the card carries of August 1912. Adam Cuthbert asked: “What was the building that’s now the road to North Road car park and when did it get knocked down?” Eric Johnson tells us: ”Ally Watson’s dairy was in the building with Hodgson’s sign. Further up North Road was access between the parish hall and this building to Laurie Gibson’s butchers barn and slaughter-house. The bottom half of this building was used to store the stalls for the Market Place, the upper part being occupied as a house by a family called Lindsey. All were demolished along with the council yard for the car park. The house built out onto the road with the lancet window is Forge House, with the smithy next towards the parish hall. Ally Watson later used the smithy building for his dairy and milk round. The first shop on the left was Gibsons butchers. The shop opposite used to belong to Billy Clark, no relation, who played for Loftus Albion in the Northern League. Then Jim Kelly’s off-licence, his wife was a member of the Trillo (ice cream) family. Clarks shop next to the butchers was formerly Cyril Whitlock’s grocers.” Can anybody assist with dating this alteration?
Image courtesy of Jean Hall and thanks to Eric Johnson for the updates.
The caption on this postcard view says ”Old Congregational Church, Loftus”, the plaque between the windows says ”Ebenezer Chapel”, so they were both right. Built in 1827 in North Road (then called Lambs Lane), it accommodated 180 people and over the doorway was an inscription ”Si deus a nobis est qui contra nos?” which in English means ’If God is with us who shall be against us?’ The church was replaced in 1906 by the church built on the former monumental mason’s yard at the corner of West Road and Westfield Terrace to accommodate more people; the ”Ebenezer” when disused later became the Parish Hall. Now refurbished as a private property and currently up for sale, this fine old building looks as austere now as it did then. The obligatory group of onlookers makes this picture, don’t you think? Can anybody explain why it looks like a building of two halves, with each half a mirror image of the other?
Image courtesy of Ann Wedgewood & Keith Bowers, information courtesy of Jean Wiggins.
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