Skinningrove Beck in flood downstream from the gas holders.
Image courtesy of Ken Loughran.
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 Skinningrove beck in full spate, a sight becoming more common now in recent years. The Gas House extension looks to be flooding. Kev Hamlinton also informs us:” This picture shows the old pumphouse at the end of Angling Green.” Image courtesy of Ken Loughran and thanks to Kev Hamlinton for that information.  Removing the rails from the bridge down to Skinningrove on the Zig Zag railway, just below the hairpin bend on Carlin How bank. Work undertaken by Darlington District Engineers Department, prior to the bridges demolition, about 1958. Image courtesy of Ken Loughran.  Realigning the road at the bottom of Mill Bank Loftus, around 1958. With Kelly Watsons Bus (Saltburn Motor Services ) in the dip. The bridge was widened at the same time. Image courtesy of Ken Loughran.  Believed to be the result of an accident on the Skinningrove Zig Zag Line. The hopper wagon in the photograph contains coke breeze, perhaps from the Skinningrove Gas Works; the image is believed to date from pre the Great War. Image courtesy of Pat Bennison.  This is a page from the war diary of the Canadian Expeditionary force, as you can see it is dated 1915. There are lots of pages and very interesting reading they are. I will only publish one but they are available on line to read. Image courtesy of Ancestry (via Joan Jemson).  I know these are not English papers but they are for an Englishman joining the 27th battalion expeditionary force of the Canadian army. He went on to serve in France during World War I. Image courtesy of Ancestry (via Joan Jemson).  A little bit of humour even though her son is far away. Lance as named on the card was Howard Wilson’s grandfather; he served and survived World War I. Image courtesy of Howard Wilson.  A World War I postcard; the sentries are cetainly dressed for cold weather! The gloves on the soldier on the right look rather large and I think they are motor cycle goggles pushed up onto his hat, what do you think? Image courtesy of Howard Wilson.  You can see the soldier sending this World War I postcard has said too much so it has been blacked out by security before being posted. All mail was censored; to prevent scaremongering and panic. Image courtesy of Howard Wilson. |
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