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This hairdressers if I remember rightly stood next to the Station Hotel; can you remember it? David Welford tells us: ” I seem to remember in the 1960′s that it became the Boy Scout hut for a while, to be later abandoned when the new scout hut was built behind Blenkinsop’s butchers shop. Then it was torn down, probably in the mid to late 1970s. We used to sled down the hill alongside this building in the 1960′s when I was a kid.” Ray Brown confirms this with: “It was actually attached to the right hand side of the Station Hotel, another use was it was used as a band hut for the Loftus town brass band that was formed in the mid sixties – you can imagine how bad the acoustics were in a wooden hut with a tin roof!”
Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection and Derick Pearson; with thanks to David Welford and Ray Brown for the updates.
A wagon load of timber on it’s way to the Carnaby Willis Saw Mill; which was situated in Loftus station yard. This lovely image would be unlikely to be repeated today, I wonder where the timber had come from?
This image, another from the picture postcard series believed to be by T.C. Booth, was probably taken late in the afternoon in autumn or early spring (judging by the lack of leaves on the trees); causing strong shadows to be cast from the wall and bridge. Taken from further back than the winter picture it is a better-composed image with Liverton Road naturally leading the eye into the scene. From the posters on the fence it is obviously an election year – any ideas when?
Image courtesy of Jean Dean.
This picture of Liverton Road, Loftus is from a series of picture postcards believed to be by T. C. Booth. It was obviously posed, as everybody is looking at the cameraman. The snow-filled sky and snow-covered ground have caused the cameraman to under expose the shot, leading to a dark, difficult to read image.
Image courtesy of Mrs Sakelaropoulos.
Everyone out posing because the man with the camera came, even the little dog seems to know the importance of the day, a lovely photo showing the old bridge and the houses. but the commentary explains all (from a calendar by Loftus Town Crier).
Image courtesy of Maureen Hogan.
A postcard view of Liverton Road, Loftus, complete with ubiquitous urchin! This from the studio of John Thomas Ross – photographer and postcard publisher of Whitby – whose postcards are now much sought after.
Image courtesy of Ruth Wilcock.
A different view of Liverton Road taken about 1929; a lovely photograph.
Image courtesy of Joyce Appleton.
Hartley’s Field must have been where the houses in Gaskell Lane now stand, so-called as the Miller at Loftus Mill for many years was Jonathan Hartley. The view over the millpond and mill looks up towards the back of Zetland Road. I have just realised that the scaffolding, top left, would have been on the Congregational Church. The postcard produced by T.C. Booth of Loftus was posted in September, 1906.
Image courtesy of Jean Hall.
There was me thinking we didn’t have a picture of Loftus Mill and there was one lurking in the cabinet all along!
A lovely picture of the mill with the pond in the foreground and the reflections in the pond make this place look idyllic. This hand tinted postcard in the Auty series gives a view of Loftus Mill across the mill pond, an idyllic image, with an impressive pink (sunset?) glow behind the buildings backing the Mill.
Image courtesy of John G. Hannah.
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