Here we are at Bell’s Huts again with Edie Lancaster sister of Daisy Maskell (nee Lancaster) standing outside one of the cottages built by Bell Brothers for the mine workers, demolished in the 1950’s; although No 1 was occupied until 1960. Hazel Banks asks us: ”Daisy’s sister Doris has a connection to my family via her husband Arthur Taylor. I know that Doris died in 1939 aged only 35. She had a daughter Doris Elizabeth Taylor (born in 1926), but I don’t know where she lived after her mum died, or who with. Her dad doesn’t seem to have raised her after this time. He set up home at some point with my maternal gran and was ‘dad’ to my mum and her older sister, I don’t know for sure if he was their genetic father or not. Do you have any information to help unravel this puzzle? Any help would be gratefully received.”
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre; information and updates courtesy of Derick Pearson, Claire Wilson (Daisy Maskell’s grand daughter), Roxanne Maskell and Susan Brown, also thanks to Hazel Banks for the question; can anybody assist?
The proud residents of number one Bells Huts; Dave and Sarah Willey. Sarah was born and died in the same house. Ashley Keld told the Archive: “These are my Great Aunt Sarah and Dave. I remember their home well – they had a wonderful china cabinet crammed full of gifts they received for their Golden Wedding Anniversary. The party was held in the Club Hall – early 1950’s”.
Image and information from a collection compiled Derick Pearson, thanks to Ashley Keld for that memory.
Doris (Welham) Cossey and Jean (Richardson) Forrest are the two lovely bridesmaids, but who were they bridesmaids for and when and where was the wedding? David Rigden advised: ”This is my Auntie dot. She was a “Cossey” not Rigdon. I think the wedding was probably my mum Edith. She was the Rigden”.
Many thanks to David Rigden for ensuring a correct comment.
This image which features in several collections of East Cleveland images; is of Hannah Laverick. She is portrayed on her way too or from work at the Skinningrove railway station (just off Kilton Lane); Hannah was the first lady porter on the North Eastern Railway in 1914 and since first featuring the image the Archive has now researched and more information is available. Hannah was born at Low Borrowby (near Roxby) in 1894 but by 1911 was living at 3 North Terrace Loftus with her parents (John and Mary) with her younger sister Mary. In 1916 we can trace her membership of the National Union of Railwaymen at Carlin How, she married Frank K. Storry in 1916 and lived for many years in Redcar; she died in 1990. She must have witnessed many changes in both the railways and the whole of East Cleveland!
Image (courtesy of Jack Robinson) featured in a collection compiled by Derick Pearson, additional information courtesy of Ancestry and Find My Past.
The bride was Rita Webster, born in 1909; her parents were Thomas and Jane Ann (nee Eggleston) Webster. The groom was Harry Sylvester; Rita and Harry ran the off-license shop in Carlin How for many years, Harry was also involved with Saltburn Motor Services or ‘Pickerings’ as they were often called.
Image from a collection compiled by Derick Pearson, who also supplied some information.
When the Archive first posted this image the question was: “Mr and Mrs George T. Goodwill and family, anyone know the people in the photograph or where it was taken?” Researches to date have proved the following: George Thomas Goodwill was born in 1883, in 1901 was living at 6 Dixon Street, Carlin How; he married Isabel Cowen in 1905 and in 1911 was living at 7 Bells Huts. However the census return shows that both their children had at that time died, so perhaps this image is incorrectly dated or happier times were afoot. The Archive will continue researching the family and post results.
Image from a collection compiled by Derick Pearson.
Early 1900’s when this photograph was taken; John and Alf Nicholson with their parents outside no. 6 ’Bells Huts’, Mill Lane, Carlin How; possibly c.1905, as in the 1911 Census John and Alfred were nine years and seven years of age. These were dwellings erected after the mine was opened by Bell Brothers in 1873 to house miners (brought in to ease the scarcity of ironstone miners) near the allotment gardens; the Peel & Jones foundry stood on the site of these huts. When first built one main tap outside in the middle of each row provided the water for the residents. Others were erected in the field below Carlin How (Duck Hole) Mine and some were being used in the early 1950s.The image has attracted considerable comments; Derick Pearson who lived there from 1945 to 1950 has memories of: “Collecting water from a spring near ‘Speddings house’ (Sykes farm House)”. Alan Pearson tells us: ” The 1881 census for Kilton lists 1 to 18 Wood Houses along with 1 to 9 Carlin How, Steavenson Street, Dixon Street and Sykes Farm. This is repeated in the 1891 census before appearing as 1 to 18 Bells Huts in 1901″. Bill Kitching tells us: “Bells huts families I remember: Winspeare, Welham, Agar, Gell, Leng, Crossman, Lancaster and Wylie”. We are told by Lynn O’Neill: “My great-uncle and Aunt lived at No 1 Bells Huts. They were Dave and Sarah Wylie”. Trevor Metcalfe told us: “My grandparents (Joseph and Clara Metcalfe) lived at number 13 Bells Huts”. Dave Fell told us: “I moved from there in 1950 but used to go back up there for some years after that to visit people. Sarah Wylie was last house to be demolished and that was c.1960”. Keith Hudson told us: “My nana was a Welburn and my grandad was a Hudson. I guess that’s where they met”. And Margaret Martin tells us: ”My dad (Eric Agar) lived in Bell’s Huts from about 1933 to 1941. There were 3 rows and he lived in Row 1 and had the water pump immediately outside his house. He lived there with his mother (Margaret Agar), father( Owen Agar) and sister (Iris Agar). Owen (my grandad) worked in Duck Hole Pit.
Image from a collection compiled by Derick Pearson; thanks to Derick Pearson, Alan Pearson, Bill Kitching, Lynn O’Neill, Trevor Metcalfe, Dave Fell, Keith Hudson, Margaret Martin and Jan Dunning for the comments and updates.
Looks like the girls have both got new bicycles, but how did they ride them in those long dresses? Annie and Mary Hudson lived at 3 Dixon Street, Carlin How and their father John William Hudson (listed in the 1911 Census) was a Deputy Overman at Bells Pit; their mother Louisa, sister Ivy and brothers Alfred and William. The Hudson family had lived for some years in Bells Huts, which would be close to where this photograph was taken. Derick Pearson advises us that this photograph was taken: ”on Kilton Lane near Carlin How, looking from the Kilton Lane allotment entrance towards where the pylon now stands in what used to be ”Miller Jim’s” field on the right; at the entrance to the old Texas Playingfields on the left going toward Carlin How.” Both lived for many years afterwards, with Mary living in Redcar till her death in 1965 and Annie also living in Redcar until her death in 1973. A further image of the Hudson sisters with their mother and grandmother has been made available to the Archive and will shortly be displayed.
Image from a collection complied for an exhibition in Carlin How in 198os by Derick Pearson, supplementary information from Census information on Ancestry and Find My Past; also many thanks to Derick for the update on location.
Knowing the title of this photograph was only part of the story; George Tremain advised us: “This photograph shows Charles Hall in the early 1900’s with his wife Margaret Elizabeth (nee Ord) Hall. They are in the garden of their house in Front Street, Carlin How where they were living at the time of the photograph. Also on the photograph I believe is their daughter Clara (Hall) Nicholson and her husband Fred Nicholson. The small boy is their son Lesley Nicholson. The two young ladies are I believe Emily Jemson (behind Margaret) and Mary Jemson (my grandmother) beside Charles Hall.” Researches by the Archive using the 1911 Census indicate that Charles and Margaret Hall lived at 7 Front Street, Carlin How; their daughter Clara and husband Fred lived at 2 Kennedy Crescent. At that time Clara and Fred had been married for two years and had no children, so giving a date to this image of 1914 or 1915.
Image from a collection by Derick Pearson and information supplied by George Tremain.
Although we know this is a Mother’s Union trip and the approximate period, can anyone advise on the correct date of this trip, where it went and who the ladies are? Can anybody assist?
Derick Pearson tells us: ”Kneeling (front right) Connie Husband, formerly of Coronation Street, Carlin How; second left (back row) Mrs Kitchener, Ida’s Mam who lived at the bottom of Stevenson Street, Carlin How; from the early 1950s. Others on the photograph are Mrs Jefferson (center back) and Mrs Appleby (second left kneeling).”
Image from a collection compiled by Derick Pearson, thanks to Derick for that update.
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