The inevitable onset of “urban decay” sets in after the closure of the mine at Liverton Mines and we can see the beginning of its destruction. The view was taken from the vantage point of the shale heaps.
Image courtesy of Raymond Brown.
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 A view looking down the valley towards Skinningrove, with the works on the skyline at the left. Taken from the shale heaps, with the pylon base clearly visible.  Left to right are Bill Harrison, Tom Miller, Bob Goldby, Harry Dack, Geoff Rispin, and Stan Ward as they with Rosettes, next to the biggest table of pies I’ve ever seen. What was the event, where and when is the next one – I love pies, me! Image courtesy of George Nicholson.  This is a snow scene that rivals the Matterhorn views so beloved of ski holiday advertisements except that these are the shale tips of Liverton Mines! The strange structure in front of them is the massive foundations for a pylon of the aerial ropeway that caused the huge cone in the background. I seem to remember a fatality here involving a cycle or a motor cycle which instigated the removal of this well-known landmark? Image courtesy of Ken Loughran.  Hmmmm….we felt we should know this one – and wondered where it was! We thought it a bit unfair to ask you to identify the person in the doorway. Chris Martin didn’t take long to crack the first part of my little puzzle, spotting the Land Rover outside the garage doors and the Raleigh Chopper under the window, so that probably does date it to the 1970s. Now known to be the house on Boulby road. Image courtesy of Eric Jackson, thanks to Chris Martin for the update.  I’m not having the best of nights tonight! I don’t think the photographer was either, tilting the picture! Another of those unknown images – can anybody enlighten us?  Sometimes we get pictures that we just can’t place – this is one of them! Beautiful freestone house, but haven’t a clue where it is. Whoever they are they were proud of their achievements in life, the house takes pride of place in the photograph. Turn of the century do you think?  Mr and Mrs Jacobs photographed in the 1940s (hence the taped lattice on the windows – in case of bombing – reducing the spread of broken glass), Mr Jacobs was almost totally blind hence the descriptive title. The dairy was at the bottom of Grosvenor Terrace on Brotton Road, in the same block as the Working Men’s Club, next to Swinnerton’s Chemists Shop. Image from a collection compiled for Carlin How Community Centre by Derick Pearson, thanks to Derick for full information and details of the image.  This image arrived to the Archive already titled, since then Derick Pearson reports: ”The owner of the Maynard Arms had carts/traps for hire, it being a popular business; there were coaching stables at the rear of the Maynard Arms in earlier times. The shop at the extreme left of the picture was part of the Skinningrove Amicable Society Ltd, where miners/steelworkers could exchange tokens for goods. Latterly this became known as Porritt’s shop, being run by Nellie and then her daughter Betty Pennock. The shop to the right is Richelieu’s Post Office, Printers and Photographer (producing Richelieu Typo Postcards for many years); it continued as a Post Office later being run by Ivy Bassendale. The altered house in between was at one time Websters Barbers Shop. Interestingly the horse and trap are standing exactly where in later years the United buses bust stop was placed, when buses ran through Carlin How Square”. Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre, many thanks to Derick Pearson the information update.  It all has a bit of an air of Dad’s Army about it, and these guys and gals might have got everybody’s backs up with their ”Put that light out”, but they did a sterling job of work all the same – and I seem to remember they were always last to the shelters. Seated middle of second row: Ivy Bassendale and is that her husband standing behind her? John Michael Watson tells us: “Middle row, second left is my Aunt Alice Watson, fourth left is my Aunt Annie Watson. They had three other sisters, Gladys (the eldest), Ethel and Bessie. They had a younger brother; my Father John Henry Carlton Watson, known simply as Harry. Aunt Gladys, Annie and Alice had a cake and bread shop in the main street, Alice always did the icing on the cakes!” Names todate; back row: Ray Appleton, ??, Tom Bassindale, ??, ??. Middle row: ??, Alice Watson, Ivy Bassindale, ??, Annie Watson, ??. Front row: ??, ??. Can anybody put any names to the faces? Image courtesy of John MIchael Watson, thanks to John Michael Watson and Brian Jemson for the update.
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