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 Zetland Road Loftus 1950’s. A stark contrast to the present day, every shop on both sides of the street and further up Zetland Road were a thriving business. Possibly only Bramwell’s (formally Halton’s) are still in the same trade on the same premises. A Skillbeck postcard courtesy of Maurice Grayson.  Market Place Loftus sometime in the 1930s; this based on the presence of Cammell’s and Race’s shops where post 1938 was the Regal cinema. A United bus waits at the stop near the Golden Lion Hotel; Parrot’s ironmongers (now the Post Office) is in front of the bus. Is it the Co-op Delivery on the bicycle? Image courtesy of the Basil Webster Collection.  A tinted postcard looking up Staithes beck, with the old footbridge to Cowbar side. The railway bridge in the distance and in the beck a double ended coble is being rowed towards the sea. A Watson or Wilson postcard courtesy of Maurice Grayson.  Sandsend; a late 1960s or early 1970s view. The old railway track in front of the former station shows plenty of vegetation growth. Image courtesy of Maurice Grayson.  Upleatham old church a fragment of it’s original size. Of the Norman era, there are carved heads on the north side. The tower was a rebuild in the 17th century; Upleatham was a ”Soke” belonging to Loftus manor in Saxon times. Image courtesy of Maurice Grayson.  Loftus water mill on Gaskell Lane; there has been a mill on this site since medieval times. The water to power the mill came from a pond above the waterfall along a leat to a second pond and then along a second leat to the waterwheel believed to be an overshot wheel, the most efficient type. Most of the machinery is still in situ, by courtesy of the present owner. An historic part of Loftus deserving of preservation, this image is from a George Skilbeck postcard. Image courtesy of Maurice Grayson.  Taken in the mid to late 1920s this view of the mason’s yard shows Edgar Colbeck (on right) who was apprenticed to William Arrowsmith.  This picture of the monumental masons yard on Zetland Road is from the earliest period when William Arrowsmith was the proprietor. Date is unknown although the headstones are of a late Victorian style so possibly from the early years of the 20th century. Researches have now provided an answer for the magnificent red granite headstone in the foreground; it can be now found in Loftus Cemetery, dedicated to Mary Ann Brittain (1825 – 1906) wife of William B. Brittain (1820 – 1910). Mr and Mrs Brittain in 1901 were living at 37 West Road, Loftus; Mr Brittain was a retired Ironmonger.  Low tide on Skinningrove beach, Can anyone name the lady walking her dog at sunset? Image courtesy of Ken Loughran.  Westerdale Hall (formerly Westerdale Lodge) was used as a baronial shooting lodge of the Duncombe Estate, built c.1870 and later was a Youth Hostel. This image is taken from a Phoenix postcard. Chris Twigg comments: “1870 is quoted in many places, but there is already a Hall marked on the 1857 Ordnance Survey map.” Colin Grice advises: “I suspect it would have taken several years to build so perhaps foundations were laid out well before the completion date. However it’s more than likely ‘something else’ occupied the site before. Some of the trees close by are enormous and were almost certainly already impressive (protected in big house grounds?) when the place was built.” Whilst Robert Goundry remembers: “I stayed at Westerdale Hall around 1960, when it was a Youth Hostel. We walked across from the train at Levisham Station. I remember the blankets were very scratchy.” Image courtesy of Tina Dowey, thanks to Chris Twigg, Colin Grice and Robert Goundry for the updates. |
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