This is the first view we have of Marske Hall, formerly a school and then the Cheshire home; what a beautiful building. It produced responses from several former pupils: Nigel Anderson recalls: “I attended Marske Hall as a border in the early 1950’s. It was always freezing!!! Punishment for being naughty was to sit cross legged on the stone flag hall floor for an hour! Difficult to move afterwards as frozen to the floor!” Margarete Petrie remembers: “I was a pupil in 1955 to 1959 when it closed down, the school dinners were awful cooked by the headmasters wife Mrs Hoggard, the head used to walk round whacking a cane on his leg. Be in the wrong place and it was a whack across the palm of your hand, some of the boys it was on their bottom., but the strange thing was I have a lot of fun memories too and after more than 65 years I still know some of the girls I went to school with even though I left the area 57 years ago.Grete Rigg as was.” Linda Thompson comments: “I remember you well – my name is Linda Thompson formerly Haley. I can remember visiting your house in the town of Redcar. I would love to hear from you.”
Image courtesy of Joyce Dobson, thanks to Nigel Anderson, Margarete Petrie and Linda Thompson for the updates.
Now this view of the Ship Inn, Marske is very different today. The photograph dated about 1910, shows the original building. It was replaced by the “very complete example of an Inter-War, Roadhouse type public house, dating from 1932.” An image of the present day Ship Inn can be found else where on the Archive.
The High Street in Marske, looking towards the centre of the village and the roundabout of more modern times. The view hasn’t changed all that much, but once again no traffic how lovely. Image courtesy of a compilation by Derick Pearson.
How awful to see Redcar like this, must really have imprinted on the mind. Jean Opie comments: “This postcard is interesting to me because my father was posted here during WW2 and used to patrol the beach. He was not in the Home Guard but the regular army, placed on light duties due to lack of fitness for frontline work. Does anyone have any photographs of the soldiers who patrolled Redcar Beach at this time? Alternatively, does anyone have any information regarding the defence of Redcar Beach and the use of the Stray Cafe as an ammunition store at this time?” David Lambert advises: “My grandad was in the Redcar Home Guard they were North Riding of Yorkshire (NRY) 4th Battalion the Green Howards; they would have patrolled Redcar and the steel works on a night and would have done their regular jobs during the day; my grandad being a steel worker. There are many pill boxes from the war around the South Gare area near the steel works and not far from where this photograph was taken. I do know the sea front looked the same till the end of the forties, until all the barbed wire and tank traps had been removed. The Green Howards headquarters were at Kirkleatham Hall at the top of Redcar where the main road comes in.” Lin Treadgold adds: “My father was in 4th Battalion Green Howards too, 1939-45.” Richard Webster asks: “My dad was in the RAF and was billeted with a local Redcar family early in the war, sadly no longer with us so no information regarding the name of the family who took him in. His name was Albert Webster and was an armourer, first on spitfires then Lancaster’s, serving around UK, Palestine and Egypt.” .
Image courtesy of Mike Holliday, thanks to Jean Opie, David Lambert, Lin Treadgold and Richard Webster for the updates.
Yes looks rather a dull and dark day at Redcar with not many shoppers about on the High Street. I love the carriage on the left, maybe it’s waiting to take a shopper back home.
A busy day on the beach and the full length pier I think. Couldn’t sit on the beach today too much seaweed, but still beautiful. As pointed out by Tony Lynn; this is Redcar beach and not Saltburn as I had initially put! Alan Etherington tells the Archive: “A ship was stranded next to the pier. I was very young and my grandmother took me to a friend of hers who lived in a small house looking directly out onto this view to see a ship that had run aground being pulled off the rocks (East Scar). I was pre-school age so probably the mid 1940s. As I recall there was no success as I watched.”
Image courtesy of Mike Holliday, thanks to Tony Lynn and Alan Etherington for the updates.
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