Another angled view of Cat Nab, looks quite different a long the front, The Archive asked: “What are the buildings?” The only one that stands there now is the old mortuary. Look at that beautiful long pier. Callum Duff assisted with: ”The three buildings to the right of Cat Nab are (L-R); The Mortuary, The Rocket Brigade and Saltburn Lifeboat Station. The Lifeboat station was demolished not long after 1924 when Saltburn’s last lifeboat ‘The Mary Batger’ was sold. It was also removed to facilitate the widening of the road. The Rocket Brigade was a land to sea rescue unit which I assume was replaced over time by more modern rescue techniques. This building also appears to have been lost due to road widening leaving the Mortuary which stands to this day. The Mortuary was recently sold and at the time of writing, it’s future use is unknown.”
Image courtesy of Mike Holliday, thanks to Callum Duff for the update.
This lovely postcard says it all with some lovely shots of Staithes, a busy scene on the beach and it looks as though the boats have come in after a busy day fishing.
Carlin How Workingman’s Club and shop (long gone) on Brotton Road. Derick Pearson advised: “This photograph is I believe 1911 to 1912. The railings and oping stones still not complete indicating job not quite finished. Hence the guess at the date as the club opened in 1911. Also visible are Blaylock’s house, shop and outbuildings on bottom end of Maynard Street, these was taken down in the 1960s to make the bend easier for the larger buses.”
Roger Barwick advises us: ”My grandad Harold Bowling was probably the first steward at Carlin How club. He moved from the old soldiers club in Hemsworth in West Yorkshire when my Mam was 1-2 years old and she was born in 1910, he eventually became the landlord of The Maynard Arms but I am not sure when he took the pub over. Quite a number of people may remember my Uncle Harold or Tim as he was known who joined the Police and was awarded the BEM for work he did when he was stationed at Staithes.” Brian Stonehouse tells us: ”My sister (Sheila) was born on 9th April 1932 in the Clubhouse next door (originally no.4 Brotton Road, but now no.1!) I was born 22nd October 1934 so my dad George Wilfred and my mum Gladys Constance Stonehouse must have become Steward/Stewardess before 1932. My dad died 17th September 1935 and my mum continued as Stewardess until November 1953 having been given splendid support by committee members (especially Jos Husband, George Brown, John Cush, George Elders and others (I cannot remember all their names). Toy Mott helped behind the bar and Bob Butterworth helped doing the unpleasant jobs around the club like the boiler, the toilets, etc. (I used to help him clean the spitoons with the wrapper from a Woodbine 5 pack as he had a disabled hand!).
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre and others, thanks to Derick Pearson, Roger Barwick and Brian Stonehouse for the updates.
A beautiful building once owned by the Palmer family, now owned by a brewery and serves as a hotel. The pets graveyard is a place children love to visit to see where the dogs, ducks and other pets were buried. This view of Grinkle Park, taken probably during the times before it became the sporting hotel it is now; shows the glazed sun lounge to good effect.
Saltburn Mill House in the foreground still stands, much modernised, to this day, as Callum Duff advises: ”Saltburn Mill was actually situated a few yards up Saltburn Gill to the south of this view. Its millrace ran the length of the valley either following the current footpath or running alongside it. It was demolished around 1920.”. The small buildings behind it are now gone – replaced by the sewage treatment plant. Cat Nab (so named because it looks like a crouching cat) shows the paths from the boot marks of the boots of adventurous Victorians, eager to try the air – the scars are much deeper these days and beyond recovery. Anne Watson adds: “I have an almost identical postcard, with a 1.5d George V stamp. Our family spent many weekends and holidays there, 1930s to 1950s, as my great uncle owned the hut shown under the nab – called Nestleton Cot. The building in the foreground was a farm and as kids around 1950 we used to help the farmer’s dog bring cows in for milking. I think his name was Smith. The track to the field ran between the farm and the beck.”Peter Appleton advises: “The long house in the foreground was, almost certainly, the alum house for the alum works at Selby Hagg, Skelton. The first period of operation, from about 1617 to, perhaps, 1630 saw the alum house located in the quarry (which is located ESE from Hagg Farm and ENE from the Asda roundabout). The alum operation was resumed by Edward Trotter of Skelton Castle, on behalf of his father-in-law, Sir John Lowther, in 1670. In letters written to Sir John, it is explained that the laying of the troughs has begun and will be a very costly exercise. Those troughs, a wooden conduit, ran the entire length of Saltburn Gill, from the quarries to the long house at Cat Nab. That’s almost 2km in length! They operated for about 20-25 years. When John Hall Stevenson resurrected the alum works in 1765, the quarries, troughs and alum house were all refurbished. It is highly likely that the stone walls and probably some of the roof beams will have originally been part of the alum house.“
Many thanks to Callum Duff, Anne Watson and Peter Appleton for the updates.
The Archive could not place these falls and asked: “Can anyone tell us anything about them, please?” Janet Wilson answers our question with: ”Liverton falls are in what we used to call “Shaw’s Banks”. They are about 1/4 mile upstream from Liverton mill. Permission to visit them should be sought from the mill owners, as the falls are on their land. My brother and his friends used to climb the falls (during the summer when there was much less water cascading down them). ” Ann Johnson adds: “We called the road Mill Bank when I lived at Moorsholm. Mr Shaw used to ride his horse and cart up the bank in a zig zag as it was so steep. The road is very narrow now due to the land slides on Liverton side. We used to go that way to school at Loftus.”
Image courtesy of Beryl Morris, thanks to Janet Wilson and Ann Johnson for the updates.
Dated 1890 this image shows the Miner’s Bridge which spanned the stream and narrow valley of Saltburn Gill, the bridge was used by those miners who lived in Saltburn and worked at the Huntcliffe Mine (today the only remaining part of the mine is the Guibal Fan house close to the railway line). The miners crossed the Saltburn valley (and Skelton Beck) via the Halfpenny Bridge and then crossed Millholme Beck via this footbridge. The footbridge was demolished in 1906 after the mines closed. The mill at old Saltburn had become inefficient in 1902 after the more powerful steam-driven mills came into use at Yarm; the mill was demolished in 1905.
Julie Riddiough tells us: ”the late Mrs Chester from Brotton told me about it, I remember asking her why it was the called the miners footbridge, as I’d assumed it led to the mill. I’ll have to dig out my notes but, off the top of my head, I think she said it was a footbridge used by miners to get to work at the Huntcliff Mine (I think that’s the one where the fan house is) I seem to remember her telling me that it was not very stable and farmers even used to lead animals over it, I’m sure, she told me it was made of wood and took quite a battering from use and being so close to the sea it got into bad repair and it was demolished as it was dangerous.”
Image courtesy of Iris Place; information courtesy of ”Saltburn-by-the-sea” compiled by Joan Wiggins; thanks to Julie Riddiough for the update, as well as Chris Twigg and Ian Scott for their comments.
Micklow Cottages were at the triangle junction of Micklow Lane and the the road to Street Houses from Skiningrove. Demolished in the 1960s and originally known as Micklehow Cottages they were one of the four collections of cottages originally developed for the alum workers of Hummersea and Boulby.
This is a well-balanced photograph (a picture postcard believed to have been produced by T. C. Booth of Loftus) of Liverton Gardens, in the valley between Liverton and Moorsholm. It was a market garden, you can see the glass-house middle-left of the image. The house visible in the picture is a semi-detached residence, each ”semi” being a mirror-image of the other. Rodney Begg tells us: ”My wife and her brother were born here in the ’50s and they lived a while here with their Grand-parents before moving to Dodder Carr cottages.” Stan Glover advises: ”The houses are called Ponoma Villa (right hand side looking at picture), and Ponoma Cottage. The Shaw brothers Harry (Ponoma Cottage) and Ces (Liverton Mill) lived in the houses. We rented Ponoma Villa mid 1950′s to 1970′s. The reference to Shaw’s falls (re Liverton Waterfall) reflected that the land was owned by Ces Shaw.” The Falls were a noted local beauty spot and often visited. Ann Johnson adds: “I remember Harry Shaw he used to come to Moorsholm with his horse and cart.”
Image courtesy of Beryl Morris, thanks to Rodney Begg, Stan Glover and Ann Johnson for the updates.
Construction in progress of the Raithwaite culvert and road – Whitby to Sandsend – this to allow access for the Newholm beck to flow into the sea. The present day road from Sandsend to Whitby passes over this now hidden engineering work. David Richardson advised: “The photograph was taken sometime during the early 1920’s when the culvert and road where constructed in Raithwaite valley near Sandsend.” The original image possibly taken by Tom Watson of Lythe; he was commissioned to make a week by week photographic record of the works.
Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection, thanks to David Richardson for the update.
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