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Guisborough Grammar School April 1959

This is Form 1A in 1958-59.

Back row: J. Morgan, John Trevillion, R. Schofield, D. Horsley, T. Breckon, I. Matthews, M. Simpson.

Middle row: J. Willerton, D. Harker, P .Lynn, J. Reader, John Roberts, G. Wright, P. Wells, C. Taylor.

Front row: Dennis Covell, A. Easby, B. Kitchen, K. Rix, Mr Ormandy, T. Walker, J. Judson, R. Thorpe, P. Storr.

Can you tell us where any of these are now?

Image and names courtesy of John Roberts who is retired and living in East Cleveland.

Guisborough Grammar School May 1961

This is a fourth form class from 1961; John Roberts (who loaned the photo) has remembered some names. Can you add any?

Back row: James Dixon, Michael Briggs, Graham Blaylock, John Roberts, Glyn Wright, Stephen Stringer, Peter Wells, Michael Carter, Rolf Thorpe.

Middle row: Peter Wood, Barry Westbrook, Stephen Teasdale, Michael Clydesdale, John Arthur Walker, David Park, Robert Doe, William (Bill) Brooks, Richard Staines,Paul Featherstone.

Front row: Ian Winship, ??, David Thornton, Jonathan Reader, Mr Catchpole, Arthur Foster, Robin Edwards?, Richard Schofield, Kenneth Pellant.

Image courtesy of John Roberts, thanks to Robert Doe, Peter Wood and Ian Winship for the updates.

Christmas Party

I am once again surmising that it is a Christmas party because of the paper hats and the decorations. Do you recognise anyone?

Image courtesy of Mrs Lilian Waton.

Is This You?

A photograph loaned to the Archive by Eileen Hicks; we didn’t know the girl on the horse and asked for assistance. Now known to have been taken at the rear of the Golden Lion. Tony Shaw believes: ” The man in the centre foreground is my grandad (Stimmy) James shaw?” Can anybody assist with a possible date? Stan Binks tells us: ”The girl on the horse looks like Alice Bennett stepdaughter of Thomas Harry Binks [front centre]. Thomas Harry Binks was head horseman for the Co op. The horse was called Boxer and belonged to Loftus Co op.”

Image courtesy of Eileen Hicks, thanks to Tony Shaw and Stan Binks for the updates.

Scaling Mill

Now no longer standing but in 1946 it was for sale; all 32 acres of it with the house standing by the side of the swift running mill stream and adjoining a series of waterfalls, at the end of the house is the old water wheel. This had it’s own water supply piped from a spring situated on high ground, another property on a Lady Day tenancy of £38 per annum. Today a weir and mill race running towards the mill can still be easily identified, but the actual location of mill is little more that a few foundations now.

Stuart Grey told us: ”In the early 1970s, I explored the remains of Scaling mill and took photographs of the remaining water mill mechanism. The “pit wheel”, the “great spur” and the  shafts for the “stone nuts” which actually turned the “mill stones”; all made out of wood were still in good condition. Outside in the stream standing against the wall of the mill,there was still  part of the actual waterwheel; although only the metal framework.” Carole Popham tells us ”My grandparents, Ben and Betty Barry used to farm here. I remember visiting late fifties/early sixties. I went back last year for the first time since then and was sad to see that there was virtually nothing left but did find some bricks from the old dairy. As a child it was a wonderful place to visit but there was no lighting in the house and life must have been quite hard for my grandparents.”

Image courtesy of Mrs Lilian Waton; thanks to Stuart Gray and Carole Popham for the updates.

Another Terrace for sale

Morehead Terrace, Easington (across the Grinkle Lane/Whitby Road junction); this time, consisting of three cottages. Corner Cottage, sold for £460 and wow it had electric light. The next cottage also had electric light, but water was still obtained from the fountain across the road. The last on the terrace (no 1 Morehead Terrace) was the police house; occupied by Constable Clarkson, mains electric lighting but no running water. Michael Leyland updates with: “Morehead Terrace consisted of numbers 1, 2 and 3 on Whitby Road; and 3a, 4, 5, and 6 on Grinkle Lane.” Whilst Deborah Garbutt advises: “My grandparents lived in number 3, my dads aunty lived in number 2.” Whilst Justine enquires: “Was this ever referred to as Fountain Terrace back in 1913?”

Image courtesy of Mrs Lilian Waton (from the catalogue for the disposal sale of the Grinkle Park estate), thanks to Michael Leyland and Deborah Garbutt for the updates; also to Justine for the comment.

Robin Hood’s Bay

What a lovely early Judge’s postcard; this very pretty village loved by all who visit it.

Image courtesy of Tina Dowey.

Commondale School

Commondale School

A lovely Tom Watson postcard view of all the children outside Commondale School for this photograph; it would seem a lot of children for such a small village; but there was a thriving brickworks in the valley in the late 19th and early 20th century. What date do you think it was taken.

A lovely Tom Watson postcard loaned to us by Tina Dowey.

Saltburn Pier – February 1972

Saltburn pier on a lovely clear February day in 1972, just to prove the sun does shine even in the winter and could be mistaken for much later in the year.

Image courtesy of Owen Rooks.

Halfpenny Bridge, February 1972

Thanks to Owen Rook for this photograph of the Halfpenny Bridge that he took in February, 1972.

Image courtesy of Owen Rooks.