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 Skinningrove valley and ironworks about 1920. The houses surrounded by industrial pollution from the works, a column of escaping gas can be seen rising from the coke ovens as a retort is emptied. Below in the valley the gas works with a rail tanker on the siding collecting tar produced at the plant. All in contrast with the well kept and tended allotments on the valley sides; at the top left St Helen’s Church completing the scene. Image courtesy of Alan Richardson.  Stape Silver Band at Danby Show 1968. The Band are regular performers at many local agricultural shows. Image courtesy of Alan Richardson.  This image from a Richardson postcard was taken at low tide from the steep ’Bothroyd’s Bank’ which leads down to Skinningrove beach. The jetty is exposed to its full length, which ships for loading pig iron would stand off, waiting for high tide. On the beach can be seen some horses – purpose unknown – and two people tend plants in the field on the left. Image courtesy of Alan Richardson.  Inside the Methodist Chapel Carlin How, a plain interior with a small organ, gas lighting, and to the right a coke stove for heating. Image courtesy of Pat Bennison.  Primitive Methodist Chapel, Carlin How, built in 1874. The path at the left of the chapel leading down to Skinningrove Beck was part of the old ”Back” or ”Cleveland Street”, which ran to Guisborough. The steam from the mine chimney can be seen in the valley below the chapel. Jule Howard tells us: ”The name of the chapel was Zion Methodist Chapel. In the 1950′s and 1960′s below this building a youth club was held, and we played billiards, table tennis and other games.” Whilst Derick Pearson tells us: ” I enjoyed going there to play billiards. There was a little awkward door on the side of the lower floor part way down ”pit bank” (as it was called) into the youth club.” Jan Snaith (nee Carveth) tells us: ”Carlin How Methodist Youth Club – Where we forged lifelong friendships and learnt to play Table Tennis – many of us now playing again in local groups as it has gained popularity once more.” Image courtesy of Pat Bennison and thanks to Julie Howard, Derick Pearson and Jan Snaith for those updates.  Firing the Stiddy at Lythe in 1948. Blacksmith Will Dobson is setting light to gunpowder on the anvil to celebrate a local event. Usually connected with the Normanby family, quite often a birthday. John Jackson and his son Leonard are also in the photograph. Linda Stainthorpe (nee Jackson) commented: “Have just been looking through your pictures and came across the one of Firing the Stiddy at Lythe, just to say it was lovely to see this one as my dad (Lennard) and my grandad (John) Jackson are both in it. Thank you very much.” Image courtesy of Alan Richardson and many thanks to Linda Stainthorpe for the comment.  A close up of Mr Severs, at Roxby Smithy, fixing the shoe to the hoof of the patiently waiting horse. Gareth Severs tells us: ”Really pleased I have found this picture, this is my Great Grandad. He was the Blacksmith at Turton Cottages, Roxby. I have seen other pictures of him and also Mr Jack Welford (Jack America) with his horses outside the Blacksmiths.” Image courtesy of Alan Richardson and many thanks to Gareth Severs for the update.  The Blacksmith at work with a farmer watching the proceedings, the scene framed by the horseshoe arch which form part of the smithy at Roxby. Image courtesy of Alan Richardson.  The Blacksmiths Shop at Roxby, with the distinctive entrance in the shape of a horseshoe, with the date 1858 above the arch. The Blacksmith is now known to be Mr Severs. Carole Ann Leslie tells us: ”That photograph was not taken in the year 2000, as Mr Herbert Severs had died 20 years or more before that. The horse looks very much like Dolly, my Father and uncle Robert’s working, or cart horse as they were called. Their farm; Home Farm was just down the hill in Roxby. It will be around 1946 I would think”. Oliver Richardson has told us: ” I am not sure why the year 2000 was attached to it. My father probably took it in the 1950s or 1960s”. Image courtesy of Alan Richardson, thanks to Carole Ann Leslie and Oliver Richardson for the updates.  Loftus Hall; built in the the area now known as Hall Grounds, Loftus. Around 1840 Sir Robert Dundas decided to build a new hall and enclosed a piece of land stretching from the bottom to the top of Church Bank, along the High Street veering to the left of Jasmine Cottage and then back to the woods almost as far as the mill, effectively cutting off Liverton Road, which ran down behind the present library. The route to Liverton was re-sited on Station Road.. Apart from being a local landowner, Sir Robert Dundas was also proprietor of the Lofthouse Alum Works. Peter Appleton has advised: “Sir Robert Lawrence Dundas (1780-1844) inherited the manor of Loftus from his father, Sir Thomas Dundas (1741-1820). By 1829, he had moved his home to Upleatham Hall. His land agent for the manor of Loftus then had use of Loftus Hall as their home. Communication between Sir Robert and his agent was carried out through a memo book system. Sir Robert would write his questions on one page and the agent would place his answers on the opposite page, followed by any requests. On his next visit, Sir Robert would respond to the agent’s requests and then add his own questions, and so it went on. At least one of these memo books has survived and is in the archives at Northallerton. A brief perusal of it indicated that Sir Robert visited Loftus approximately once a week, sometimes more frequently. When Sir Robert Lawrence Dundas died, he passed his manor of Loftus to his nephew, Sir Thomas Dundas (1795-1893), son of his elder brother Sir Lawrence Dundas (1766-1839).” Image courtesy of Alan Richardson, additional information courtesy of Jean Wiggins; thanks also to Peter Appleton for the update details on the Dundas family. |
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