That is the title on the bottom of this postcard view – the old Bank cafe is clearly visible in the foreground – with a funfair in the area now the boat parking. There are more houses beyond the Ship Inn, possibly dating from the late 1930s, we believed. Callum Duff advises: ”Both this postcard and the one above are most likely to be post WW2. The once-fashionable bathing machines were retired in the early 20th Century and were lined up between The Ship Inn and Cat Nab, across the road from the mortuary and rocket brigade where they were either used for storage or by courting couples! They had all been removed by the end of the war and there is no sign of them in either of these postcards. A book by Major J.Fairfax Blakeborough called ‘The Story & Tradition of Old Saltburn’s Ship Inn’ was published in 1948 and uses the postcard above as one of its illustrations so I assume that the photograph was taken around that year.”
Image courtesy of Maurice Grayson and many thanks to Callum Duff for the update.
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