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 A postcard view of the monument erected to honour the first English poet ”Caedmon”, a servant in ”Hild’s” (611-680AD) double monastery at Streonshalh (Whitby). Caedmon’s story is narrated by the Venerable Bede in the Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Image courtesy of Tina Dowey.  A different train to be viewed on the Raithwaite viaduct which spans Newholm beck, having left Sandsend travelling towards the Whitby Westcliff station. Image courtesy of Maurice Grayson.  A snow covered beach at Skinningrove in the 1960s. Image courtesy of Ken Loughran.  A different view of the Sandsend viaduct, showing a steam train northbound, about to enter Sandsend station. Image courtesy of Maurice Grayson.  Whitby West Cliff Station – very quiet, possibly only two carriages on the train. An ex-LMS Fairburn 4MT 2-6-4T, not obviously in steam from this photo, but crewed up ready for the Saltburn leg of the trip. This is one of the few images of the West Cliff Station at Whitby the Archive has, can anybody assist? Image courtesy of Maurice Grayson and thanks to Mark Thompson for update on guards van and locomotive.  Mrs Archer loaned us this photograph of a class at Rosecroft school but no dates and apart from identifying the teacher as Mr Keith Staines, no names were given. Can you date and name this photograph? Ian Atkinson believes: “The girl on the left hand end of the middle row was called Julie Easton.” Image courtesy of Lee Archer, thanks to Ian Atkinson for the update.  The Archive said: “We know the Tutor Group, but would love to know the year, can you help?” Steve Pearson advised: “It’s 1999/2000 school year, we left in 2001.” Back row: G. Thompson, L. Wright, D. Maskell, G. Hodgson, M. Cuthbert. Image courtesy of Lee Archer, thanks to Steve Pearson for the year update.  Staithes viaduct viewd from the area adjacent to the station in Staithes. Image courtesy of Maurice Grayson.  Somewhat outside our area, but a fine postcard view giving some idea of the size of the Cistercian Abbey at Rievaulx, in Ryedale. Founded in 1131 by Walter L’ Espec. During the rule of Abbot Aelred; Rievaulx housed 140 choir monks and 600 lay brothers. The Abbey was dissolved by Henry VIIIth in 1538. Image courtesy of Tina Dowey.  We believed this image was of miners in Eston Mine. David Richardson came to the rescue telling us: ”Eston Mine in ‘Harry Scott’s Headwess’, about 1925. The men have just finished barring lose ironstone down from the roof in the top left hand corner of the photograph. Tommy Seymour is breaking the stone apart with a pick while William Gill is loading the stone into the mine waggon.” Craig Hornby tells us: ”This I can confirm is Eston 1920 and if my memory serves me correct was taken in Park Headways district. ‘Headwess’ is extreme local pronunciation of ‘Headways’! The picture is one of a set entitled (drilling/filling/timbering/barring) taken to illustrate an article written by then Eston mine Manager – William Grace – for the ”Iron and Coal Trades Review” magazine. The article was called ‘Stratified Ironstone Mining in Cleveland’.” Image courtesy George Pearson; with thanks to David Richardson and Craig Hornby for the updates. |
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