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 An image of Dale House, looking across the Ridge Lane ford in January 1983. Despite being taken in that early in the year the weather appears to be remarkably mild. No snow or a raging torrent through the culvert of this section of Ridge Lane as it commences rising out of Dale House. Image courtesy of Joyce Dobson and Keith Bowers.  Close to Robin Hoods Bay; Raw evokes an image of a cold and unwelcoming placed. How unlike the delightful hamlet it actually is! Image courtesy of Joy e Dobson and Keith Bowers.  In 1932 The Office of Works (now English Heritage) carried out excavations and undertook repairs to consolidate the walls and grounds so they could be opened to the public. Image courtesy of Joyce Dobson and Keith Bowers.  A lovely shot of Seymour Hill. What date would you put on this photograph? We think early 1900s. Image courtesy of Joyce Dobson and Keith Bowers; an update of an image originally posted courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection.  This postcard image of Loftus War Memorial shortly after the opening ceremony in 1922. We can see the war memorial and the lions head pouring out water, with some of the older houses of Loftus in the background. Image courtesy of Margaret and Michael Garbutt.  Goathland with only the sheep to disturb the peace, soon to be transformed after filming began for the ”Heartbeat” T.V. series; as the fictional village of Aidensfield. Image courtesy of Joyce Dobson and Keith Bowers.  Taken from the west we can clearly see the shop of C. J. Dodd & Co; the Presbytery in the background and the original shop with living accommodation above in the building now the Co-op. A hand tinted postcard produced by H. G. Glen & Co of Leeds pre-1913. Image courtesy of Margaret and Michael Garbutt.
North Road Loftus, looking uphill towards Seymour Hill on the way to North Terrace. A scene virtually unchanged from the present day. The shop on the right is now a private residence. But the new housing estate is beginning to appear at the top of the hill.  Carlin How square, with an early E type United bus picking up passengers, sometime in the 1920’s. Image courtesy of Joyce Dobson and Keith Bowers.  A carefully arranged viewing of a group outside Easington Post Office, when it was the first property on Lambert Terrace. Wasn’t it was also a shop run by Mrs Mary Cooke for over thirty years. Pam McVay commented: “Yes I think this was a shop and I think my mum Bette Robinson was born there, I think it belonged to her mother’s family; Cooke.” David Bertram asked: “It was a general store when it was a Post Office. I think I recall that it all ended in tragedy with the suicide of one or both of the couple who ran it.” Easington Post Office (and general store) was owned by Jean and John Wilson in the early 1980s, tragically Jean who was Loftus born and bred died suddenly in her fifties in 1985 and John sadly committed suicide some three months later. A great loss to the village. Image courtesy of Joyce Dobson & Keith Bowers and many thanks to David Bertram and Pamela McVay for the updates. |
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