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 Another photograph of Staithes carnival showing Margaret Suckling (nee Verrill) her brother Johnny and her sister Sarah Hannah Cole (nee Suckling), Harold Armstrong is the ’Duke Of Wellington’, many will remember him as fisherman and coxswain of the Runswick Bay Lifeboat. Image and information courtesy of Neil Suckling.  Neil Suckling who loaned us this image thinks it maybe ’Fair Week’ in 1965, the last time they did a procession like this. He can identify: ”the lady front right, in the gold trimmed dress, is my grandma, Margaret Ward Suckling (nee Verrill)”. Can you recognise anyone there? Patricia Taylor (nee Geraghty) tells us: ”This is the Staithes cast of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ which was performed one day during the carnival in the year this photograph was taken – Beth Hicks is in costume at the front right of the picture. The balcony scene was delivered from the first floor of one of the buildings in the High Street.” Phil Ransome suggests: ”It may be John Pearson in the red and blue tights!”. Jackie Roe-Lawton tells us: ”Mrs Lowden, who used to sell toffee from her house steps (now known as Toffee Crackle House) is standing in front of the Pork Shop, wearing a white bonnet. She was blind in her later years, and looked after her niece Felicia.” Snapper also advises regarding people in the picture: ”I think Jeff Barker was dressed in purple, Doug Moss in red and blue leggings, Don Burns in the silver outfit and Isaac Unthank on the stool in the door way.” Judith Somodi-Spence assisted with: “Mrs Lowden was my granny. Felicia – my half sister – stayed with granny for quite sometime as a child. My gran had seven children; she made and sold toffee to help make ends meet following her husband’s death. Another of her daughters married the “steers” lifeboat coxswain.” Felicia Walker (nee Lowden) also assisted with: “Just for the record. I happen to be the mixed race granddaughter (not niece) of the toffee lady Marie Lowden. She looked after me since I was around two years old until I was 14. Without her kindness and intervention I would not be the person I am today. Not only was she blind, she was also deaf following an explosion of an oven in her teens. She was an inspiration and and an author of many books. I was blessed to have such a wonderful person in my life as a child.” Andrea Foord recalls: “I have just come across this photograph from the Staithes Carnival. I had started Whitby Grammar School September 1964 and became friends with a Staithes girl, Victoria Brunt, whose grandfather also live in the village. The following summer I was invited to join in this Carnival and I remember that year Vicky’s grandfather made huge Disney heads out of paper mache for us to wear in the parade. I was Mickey Mouse and my friends were Donald Duck and Pluto! I think the following year we had horse bodies to wear, fastened on with braces and we learnt a very simple drum rhythm to play. Look North covered the Carnival on TV with Mike Neville doing the interviewing! Great fun!” Cindy Russell says : “My Grandmother was Ellen Verrill married to Ernest Bidmade . I have the photograph of great great geat grandad Issac in my living room I am researching my mothers side now . The Bidmades.“ Image courtesy of Neil Suckling and thanks to Neil Suckling, Patricia Taylor, Philip Ransome, Jackie Roe-Lawton, Snapper, Andrea Foord and Cindy Russell for the updates. Especial thanks to Judith Somodi-Spence and Felicia Walker nee Lowden for their putting the record straight and many apologies from the Archive for incorrect reporting.  I know it isn’t an old photograph but the trains are old so it qualifies. Russ Pigott comments: “It is an old postcard, dates back to the very early 1970s.” Image courtesy of Joyce Dobson, thanks to Russ Pigott for the update.
A view of Glaisdale, but not as we know it! This postcard is dated 29th. January 1872. Eric Johnson tells us: ”an interesting view of the short-lived Glaisdale Ironworks. Three blast furnaces with barrow hoist can be seen, moving left the blast engine house with boiler chimney, then the trestle bridge of the mineral railway which ran up Glaisdale Rigg to ironstone quarries. The smaller chimney was part of the shaft sunk to the small seam. Like the Runswick Bay Ironworks was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The ill-fated ”Paddy Waddell’s Railway” more properly known as The Cleveland Mineral Extension Railway was originally intended to join this Ironworks at Glaisdale to the Teesside furnaces, the rest is history. Image courtesy of Olive Bennett & Joyce Dobson and thanks to Eric Johnson for the update.  Africander grounded at Redcar. Fred Brunskill advises: ”The large steamship ’Africander’ came ashore January 1892. Local folk were employed to lighten her load (hence the horses and carts)and she was refloated within a week.” Image courtesy of Mike Holliday, thanks to Derick Pearson and Fred Brunskill for updates.  At last a dated photograph and all the names to go with it. Back row: Derek Roe, David Robinson, Tony Main, Alan Jackson, John Bennet, Keith Mortimer, Norman Patton, Tony Hardy, Dave Smith, Donald Burdon, John Temple, Les Armstrong, Alan England. Middle row: Michael Dadd, Peter Kitchener, Margaret Verrill, Hazel Laverick, Mary Dale, Brian Winspear, Ron Allinson, Ray Harrison, Norma Grainger, June Lines, Carol Pascoe, Eric Lancaster, Kenneth Fawcett. Front row: Pam Dobson, Kathleen Grant, Anne Jefferson, Sheila Verrill, Heather Woodall, Judith Dean, Jacqueline Duncan, Valerie Tate, Doreen Eddis, Eileen Benson, Mary Shaw. Image courtesy of Marian Toulson and many thanks to Sheila Harris (nee Potts) for the update.  These cutting images show a crowded Loftus Market Place and Zetland Road celebrating the end of the first World War. Cutting from a collection gifted to the Archive, most of the cuttings coming from the Northern Echo and usually cover the period 1930 to 1940.  Birhold – a sailing ship – grounded at Redcar 1899. Image courtesy of Mike Holliday, thanks to Derick Pearson for the update.  Another view of the Birhold, known to have beached at Redcar in 1899. Image courtesy of Mike Holliday.  Honoria H325 which went aground off Redcar 9th January 1901. Fred Brunskill advises: ”Richard Picknett, himself the past coxswain of the ‘Emma’ lifeboat was one of seven of the Picknett family to be in their coble as they tried to assist the Honoria. Tragically Richard and his his two nephews were drowned that day. The above photograph shows the Honoria and the RNLI lifeboat “Brothers”.” Image courtesy of Mike Holliday, thanks to Derick Pearson, supplemented by the Redcar Shipwrecks list, also to Fred and Sue Bishop for the updates. |
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