Not Loftus this time but Boosbeck, for a change! A view up the High Street; the Boosbeck Hotel (or Commercial Hotel as it was at one time known) is visible on the left middle of the image.
Image courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum.
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 Now known as the Boosbeck Hotel, this image of the Commercial Hotel Boosbeck; when beer and ales were 7 pence a pint. For the younger viewers that’s about 3p in today’s money, think I’ll go for a pint or two.  Oldham Street, Moorcock Row and the Victoria Inn are shown on this photograph, of course the shale heap is very visible, all long gone now, although the name Moorcock Row remains – attached to the new houses built on the old site. What date was it taken – does anyone know? Paula Miller has advised: ”This photograph was taken by the Evening Gazette”. Derek Dobson remembers: “Looking out of our front window as a child I would see the full size heap for years, lived in Prospect Terrace. I’m 62 now; spent many a summers day, me and Paul Tyrka sat waving at the training jets buzzing us. There were that many fossils, collecting them was never an option. Great things to climb, some parts almost solid other paths constantly crumbling as you climb. I’d be seeing heap this size in 1960; great place to sit look down on the whole village, taking in the distant view leading to the moors. There was constant rivalry between bottom-enders and top-enders; so fought each other for entertainment, but all together when defending ourselves.” Judith Green (nee Taylor) told the Archive: “I was born at 35 Oldham Street, my grandmother’s house, and spent most of my childhood playing in the streets there. My cousins, the Beckley family lived at no.15. I took piano lessons with a lady at no. 17 but cannot remember her name. I remember the pit disaster and my cousin Louis Booth was killed in a motor bike accident in 1955. All the residents supported each other in those sad times A great community.”. Michael A. Buble has added: “Just after World War II (circa 1947) when I was about 12 years old, I was reading in our our local newspaper, a list of young people in England my age, looking for pen pals in Canada. I chose to write to Lewis Booth at 35 Oldham Street, Lingdale, Saltburn. This began a regular exchange of letters throughout our teen aged years and into adulthood. Lewis also wrote me from Egypt where he was serving with the British Forces. In 1955 a letter came to me from 35 Oldham Street, but it was not from Lewis. It was from Mrs Booth, his mother. She informed me that Lewis had died in a motorcycle accident. I was quite distraught over this news. Lewis and I, through the years of correspondence had truly become pen pal friends. In the letter, Mrs Booth enclosed a picture of the grave, all covered in flowers, where Lewis was buried, I continued to keep in touch with Mrs Booth. Then early in 1963 (around February) I advised Mrs Booth that I would be visiting England sometime in June of that year and I was looking forward to meeting her in Lingdale. She wrote back and said she would be so happy if we were to meet. Image courtesy of a cutting from the Evening Gazette, thanks to Derek Dobson, Judith Green (nee Taylor), Paula Miller and Michael A. Buble for the updates and comments.
Well the photograph is dated and tells us what is happening so there is no more for me to write. However Derick Pearson tells us: ” I was standing on what was the footings of Coral Street and North Terrace at Lingdale; I took this for the records of Lingdale local history at that time. The shale heap was being removed by George Carey Haulage. The man on the D6 digger and loading the lorries was George Found and the man in the lorry that day was George (Sooty) Thorpe. The bungalow you see was my father-in-laws and the red Volkswagen Caravanette on the driveway was mine.” Photo originally taken by Derick Pearson and many thanks to Derick for that update.  The High Street at Lingdale dated 1913, an image of another thriving village at that time. Image courtesy of Mike Holliday.  In assisting us with dating the image Derick Pearson told the Archive: ”According to Census in 1891 the Post office was at the bottom of Tyreman Street, and Thomas William Cook was postmaster who came from Norfolk, He was at no 3 High Street on the South side in 1881 prior to this, so it may well be just before the turn of the century as we thought. Cooks still had the shop on the 1901 Census, but on the opposite corner is the Primitive Methodist Jubilee chapel, on the block on the left with the Gas lamp out front. This was built 1897 which also confirms the photograph was taken later than that.” Image courtesy of Derick Pearson and others, thanks to Derick Pearson for the update regarding possibly dating of the image.
This Phoenix postcard (Brittain and Wright of Stockton) dating from the early 20th century looks towards Stanghow and the road leading to the moor. Image courtesy of Tina Dowey.  Locally known as the ”top house” the Lingdale Tavern more recently was a boarded building at the cross roads, nothing like the magnificent building in this Phoenix Series postcard from the 1890’s. Derick Pearson advises: “This photograph dates from when John Snowden was the owner of the Tavern or Lingdale Hotel. The Lingdale Tavern is still known to many as Snowdon’s Corner, even after all these years. Dale Terrace also known as Stone Row is further up this road, on the left is the Congregational Chapel which is still there today.” Mark Bottomley comments: “My grandad Charles Bottomley, lived on Stone Row with his grandparent’s – Charles and Flora Bottomley – but was tragically killed in the mining explosion in 1953.” Whilst Ed Stolting adds: “Beautiful picture of Stanghow Road and the Lingdale Tavern! Glad to read that it was reopened a few months ago after having been boarded up all those years which was truly a very sad sight. Image courtesy of Mike Holliday and Jean Carass; thanks to Derick Pearson, Mark Bottomley and Ed Stolting for the updates.
Makes you shiver looking at this photograph; do you remember the winter of 1947? Newspaper cutting courtesy of Mike Holliday.  This nice photograph with the mine in the background left the Archive asking for the date and details. Eric Johnson informed us: ”in the centre of the photograph, can be seen the calcining kilns and materials hoist. The three kilns were originally on the island of RAASAY in the Inner Hebrides; dismantled in about 1943 with each part carefully numbered and loaded into ships. One local man John Macleod was killed in the hold when the sling broke. The kilns were taken to Lingdale and re-erected shortly afterwards, this photograph is from about 1950.” Thanks to Eric for the information. |
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