A peaceful image of the water as it flows under the viaduct and on to the sea at Skinningrove.Norman Patton commented: “In my lifetime, I cannot remember floods at Skinningrove in the days when the beck had this much water flowing. ie. prior to the construction of Scaling dam. Have I got this wrong?” Derick Pearson advised: “This photograph here however has the same three persons on it as another photograph (next image on the Archive), which was taken the same day about an hour later”. Despite the comments to the image, the Archive is aware that the beck at Skinningrove is not affected by any possible outflow from Scaling Dam, as this emerges at Staithes; the overflow from Lockwood Beck flows via Kilton Beck. The image is taken from a George Skilbeck postcard and dates from the 1940’s.
Many thanks to Kathleen Hicks for the Lockwood Beck information, also thanks to Derick Pearson and Norman Patton for their memories of the beck flooding.
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