A lovely photograph of Saltburn taken from Cat Nab, from a Valentine’s postcard. As the postcard has not been used a possible date is still to be attributed.
Image courtesy of the Julie Tyrka and Joan Jemson.
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 That is what the caption on this image says; I don’t think it looks much like this today. Russell Pigott tells us: ”I would say about the turn of the 20th century,there is fresh ballast on a siding which looks like it went into the ironworks that seem to be demolished and also the style of railway wagons in the picture.” Richard Coates comments: “I’m sure that I know the place the picture was taken. The rail lines that pass the chimney run to Whitby, if you look through the gap between the second and third bush you can just make out the line that runs to Pickering now owned by the NYMR. The view has changed slightly but not much.” Image courtesy of Cleveland ironstone mining museum, thanks to Russell Pigott and Richard Coates 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.  This photograph; taken from the former zig zag line against the railway embankment across the valley shows how Skinningrove was built in the valley with the gas works, gasometers and the mine buildings showing on the right hand side. Image courtesy of Eric Johnson.  This is a view that we don’t normally see as we drive through Sandsend; the card was posted in December, 1904. Thanks to Peter Appleton for pointing out that the original caption for the image was incorrect: “This isn’t “looking east”. The coastline here runs approximately east-west. This view is looking approximately north-west.” Image courtesy of Beryl Morris, thanks to Peter Appleton for the update.  This view of Sandsend and Lythe bank is from a postcard, post marked with the date of 7th June, 1919. Perhaps from a holiday post World War I and all its horrors. Image courtesy of Beryl Morris.  A view of Sandsend, entitled “Sand’s End and the Cliffs”; the railway station and its environs look remarkably tidy! The image is from a published “Views of Whitby & District”, undated but obviously early 20th century. The image also is also in ”Photographic View Album of Whitby”. (photographed and printed by Valentine & Sons Ltd., Dundee).  Somewhere different; I don’t think we have another photograph of Liverton or of these cottages which I always knew as Petch’s Cottages am I right? As Jill Gale tells us: ” This is at the corner of Moorsholm Lane with main road. Village hall to far right of picture.” Bill Watkinson tells us: ”I and my family lived in the last one next to Moorsholm Lane from 1968 when we bought it for £2500 and they were known as 4 Petch’s Row then. My Mum and Dad sold up in about 1984 when a motorcyclist was killed in the side garden. The second house in the row was lived in by Mrs Harrison and young Jim her son who worked at the Shrubberies. The house behind the village hall was lived in by a lady with Parkinson’s disease where I used to go to get our Sunday chicken.”
 Kilton Mill, an image of the building taken from the ’new’ road embankment after 1973. Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection.
A lovely walk along here by the miniature railway and into the gardens with the Halfpenny Bridge looking splendid in the background. Do you remember riding on the miniature railway? Callum Duff tells us: ”I used to work on the Miniature Railway in the late 1980′s and early 1990′s. You had to be made of strong stuff to cope with the change in temperature from one end of the valley to the other. After 3.00pm it was still nice and warm at the Italian Gardens end but as soon as you got over the bridge it was freezing! I remember a passenger asking me why I was wearing finger-less gloves in August. ‘Just wait until we get round that corner’ was my reply!” Image courtesy of Julie Tyrka and many thanks to Callum for the insight working conditions on the railway. |
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