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That’s what it says on the gate, obviously not the ranch of television fame; the ranch hands are having a rest in the sunshine. Left to right: Terry (Buff) Beckwith, Joe Beckwith, Arthur (Danny Whiskers) Preston, Arthur Beckwith, Laurence Beckwith (father of Buff Beckwith), Matt Woodrow.
Asking for help with names, the Archive received from Pat Sparkes: “I don’t remember any of those people in the photograph I can remember My Uncle Peter Kennedy being involved with the Ponderosa as far as I can remember it was made up of old doors. Uncle Pete had grapes growing in part of it. It was about the last allotment before the path to Saltburn side.”. John Kennedy assisted with: “The Ponderosa was in fact owned by Peter Kennedy having moved his allotment from the top of Cliff Street. It was in fact located at the end on Marine Terrace nearest to the steel works end. Due to subsidence he moved to up near Ridley Terrace on Carlin How bank. His hen laying boxes were the old Co-ops biscuit tin racks. All material was salvaged from one place or another or off the beach.”. Derick Pearson assisted: ” The man on the left is Terry (Buff) Beckwith, and in the centre with the stick is Cliff Beckwith.”. Colin Hart advised: “At the end is Matt Woodrow (my grandad), man with stick Arthur Beckwith; man in flat cap Laurence Beckwith.”
Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection , Neil Breckon, Pat Sparkes, Derick Pearson, Laura King, John Kennedy and Colin Hart for updates.
Colin Hart advises: ”The Methodist Shield was competed for by all the local Methodist Chapels. The children would compete at singing and bible reading while judges would listen but not watch, then give scores to each person.(was this the forerunner of X factor). Handicraft, handwriting, painting and sewing were also judged with points for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. This was usually held at Deepdale Chapel which had a large room. There was also a choir competition and Skinningrove won both sections that year with the songs ‘At the Name of Jesus’ and ’Holy, Holy, Holy’ (I can still remember the tunes). At the end of the competition all points won were added together and the chapel with most points won the shield. The year was 1967 or 1968?”. Angela Marley adds: “I remember those songs from the choir too. They will stick in my mind for ever, the amount of times we had to rehearse them!”
Back row: Mrs Lacey (fur hat), Brian Hart (yellow jumper), Mr Wilf Lacey, Mrs Mabel Forrest (red hat). Also present are: Richard Grant (green jumper holding two cups), tall girl extreme right is Sheila Solomon; her twin Eileen is to the left of Susan Hart, who stands next to Mr Lacey. Girl in red check with white Alice band is Iris Grant next is Judith Magor. Girl with red alice hair band is Angela Willis, next Susan Hill with Frazer Grant behind. Small boy behind in green jumper is Colin Hart. Front row from left: Jean Webster, Angela Dowson, Dawn/Pam Holiday, Beverley Storr and in front of her are believed to be her three sisters. Brian Hart stands next to Mr Lacey (holding a cup) and in front of Brian is Carol Peirson.
Image and names courtesy of Colin Hart; thanks to Elizabeth Mellor, Paul Clarke, Tony and Angela Marley (Dowson).
Help! We know nothing about this photograph, but it looks like a school or Sunday school outing; we think the photograph may have been taken up on the cliff road. Do you know better, or know any of the assembled people?
Image courtesy of Colin Hart.
A lovely photograph of local fishermen on Skinningrove beach (jetty visible in the background); the man standing on the back of the tractor is Terry Hall do you know the names of any of the others? Please tell.
More information came from Marie Cox who advised: “the man driving the tractor is William (Bill) Cox my dad and the man on the outside of the boat is Terry Hall’s son Steven.” Mr Cox driving the tractor, the man in the boat known by most as Dixie and the man outside the boat is the son of Terry Hall, the owner of the boat.
Image courtesy of Kathleen Hicks, thanks to Marie Cox for the update.
On the back of this photograph (produced by the photographer Greenbank of Carlin How) is written: ‘On August 10th, 1927 in Bell’s Farm grounds Salvation Army children’s picnic, Reggie and Kenneth were there and they were all taken on Tom Dart’s coal cart. The lady on the right standing is Sally Padgett and the lady kneeling on the right is Mrs Allsop.”
Do you know anyone else that is there? Note how clean everybody looks, obviously the cart was well cleaned for such an outing!
Bells Farm is what is now known as Kilton Hall Farm, Kilton Lane. The bank up which you travel from Carlin How, used to be called Bells bank, later Blackett’s bank and until recently Ramsey Hall’s bank (Ramsay Hall was father of Richard Hall the present occupant of Kilton Hall). Fiona Jenner writes: ”I was very interested to see this photograph as I think it includes my great-great grandfather Thomas Dickinson Wright (third from right on the back row). He was originally from Boston in Lincolnshire but married a Yorkshire girl Anne Smith in Loftus. They moved around quite a bit but in 1917 were living in Tin City in Boulby. Their link to Skinningrove could be that one of their daughters, Elsie, married a Shelley and lived there (Tina Dowey’s grandmother)”.
Image courtesy of Kathleen Hicks, thanks to Derick Pearson and Fiona Jenner for the updates.
After making the comment about Tom George’s height on the Post Liverton Mines chapel, Ray Brown asked his daughter Iris Knight if the Archive could post this image. Tom was employed on Skinningrove Iron works, and by the look of it he was in the platelayers gang. He sports a hammer that was used to relocate the wooden chocks that had come out of the rail chairs. I think you will agree that he was a tall man for his time, but very much a gentle giant. Tom was very well known in both Liverton Mines and Loftus. Jen Trembath tells us: ”I believe the man he is with to be my uncle – Horace Trembath – who lived in Skinningrove”. Richard Barnes asked: “If I remember rightly did he not run a little shop in Liverton Mines in Downe Street?”
Image and commentary courtesy of Ray Brown and many thanks to Jen Trembath and Richard Barnes for the updates.
Grace Conn (Raymond Conn’ gradmother) opened her first shop at 39 Staithes Lane. She is pictured standing in the door, the shop appears to also include the Post Office.
Image and information courtesy of Ray Conn.
Grace Conn moved from the small shop in the cottage at one side of Staithes Lane to the larger premises over the road, which later became the Co-op. She is pictured on the doorstep with her assistant, Muriel Clark. Ann Beckett asks: “Has anyone any information about the owners of the shop – the Shippey family – our cottage in the lower village of Staithes, records members of the Shippey family being resident in the 1911 Census?”
Image courtesy of Mr. Ray Conn; can any one assist Anne Beckett with her searches?
Taken in the old Scout hut this is the committee of Loftus Scouts.
Back Row: Mink Simpson (Assistant Scout Master), Elizabeth Moor, Albert Goldby, Norman Pass (Scout Master), Joe Ward (Assistant Scout Master), John Bennett (Senior), John Bennett (Junior).
Front Row: Muriel Covell, Hannah Nellist, Elsie Pass, Agnes Swales, Olive Bennett.
Image courtesy of John Hicks and Joe Ward.
Ben Scott and a happy group outside East Loftus Community Centre. Mary Scott, Carrie Money and Margaret Bowers are in the picture. Can you name any of the others or tell us when it was taken?
Mick Morrison has advised: “Mrs. Eva Linton is the third lady from the left, and Mr. Bob Carter is the man on the far right of the back row.“
Mrs Elsie Plews on left and another lady is identified as possibly Gladys Morrison by Barbara Hale.
Rose Daniels assists with: “The lady with white hair and trousers and the gentleman next to her with no tie are husband and wife Ginny and Dinky Arnold.”
Image courtesy of Joan Jemson, thanks to Mick Morrison, Barbara Hale and Rose Daniels for the updates on names.
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