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 This stern group of lads were the Lumpsey Mine football team, known collectively as ”The Skinshifters”. They appear to have won a trophy – hope it wasn’t a knock-out competition! Can anyone name the team and maybe give us a year and the name of the competition? Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection and others.  The Archive could not place these falls and asked: “Can anyone tell us anything about them, please?” Janet Wilson answers our question with: ”Liverton falls are in what we used to call “Shaw’s Banks”. They are about 1/4 mile upstream from Liverton mill. Permission to visit them should be sought from the mill owners, as the falls are on their land. My brother and his friends used to climb the falls (during the summer when there was much less water cascading down them). ” Ann Johnson adds: “We called the road Mill Bank when I lived at Moorsholm. Mr Shaw used to ride his horse and cart up the bank in a zig zag as it was so steep. The road is very narrow now due to the land slides on Liverton side. We used to go that way to school at Loftus.” Image courtesy of Beryl Morris, thanks to Janet Wilson and Ann Johnson for the updates.  Orininally posted by the Archive as Robert Shaw with his horse and cart pictured in Moorsholm, date as yet unknown but possibly late 1930s, but the Archive awaited confirmation of this fact. The cottage further back down the street has long since been redeveloped and was the blacksmith’s shop. Ann Johnson adds: “I remember Harry Shaw he used to come to Moorsholm with his horse and cart.” Since then assistance has been provided by Stewart Ramsdale with: “This is Moorsholm, but it is of Seth Shaw with his block cart in 1904”. Image courtesy of Janet Grey, additional information via Ancestry and Ann Johnson; thanks to Stewart Ramsdale for the identification.
This postcard image of Lingdale School dates from c.1900; we were unsure of the location. Bill Danby advised: “I am told by my brother-in-law, Frank Holmes, who went to the school that it was situated on the corner of Davison Street and Cockburn Street, Lingdale. Cockburn Street is the one going off to the right of the photograph. Fred Brown tells us: “Yep! That’s where it was. The pupils hanging out of the window are in the classroom where I “studied” under Mrs Casson in about 1949. She introduced me to ‘Wind in the Willows. The infants school was across the road on the other side of Davison Street. Mrs Collett ran the infants school and Mr Rickaby was head of the main school. The part sticking out at the extreme left was the gym in my time.” Image courtesy of Owen Rooks, thanks to Bill Danby for the location information on this fine building and Fred Brown for the confirmation.
Dated 1890 this image shows the Miner’s Bridge which spanned the stream and narrow valley of Saltburn Gill, the bridge was used by those miners who lived in Saltburn and worked at the Huntcliffe Mine (today the only remaining part of the mine is the Guibal Fan house close to the railway line). The miners crossed the Saltburn valley (and Skelton Beck) via the Halfpenny Bridge and then crossed Millholme Beck via this footbridge. The footbridge was demolished in 1906 after the mines closed. The mill at old Saltburn had become inefficient in 1902 after the more powerful steam-driven mills came into use at Yarm; the mill was demolished in 1905. Julie Riddiough tells us: ”the late Mrs Chester from Brotton told me about it, I remember asking her why it was the called the miners footbridge, as I’d assumed it led to the mill. I’ll have to dig out my notes but, off the top of my head, I think she said it was a footbridge used by miners to get to work at the Huntcliff Mine (I think that’s the one where the fan house is) I seem to remember her telling me that it was not very stable and farmers even used to lead animals over it, I’m sure, she told me it was made of wood and took quite a battering from use and being so close to the sea it got into bad repair and it was demolished as it was dangerous.” Image courtesy of Iris Place; information courtesy of ”Saltburn-by-the-sea” compiled by Joan Wiggins; thanks to Julie Riddiough for the update, as well as Chris Twigg and Ian Scott for their comments.  We wondered who the Florence was that this Terrace was named after; Toby Clempson tells us: ”The Florence in question is likely to have been Florence Nightingale, whose medical work in the Crimean War of the 1850s made her famous having been widely publicised in the British Press not all that long before the Rosedale Abbey iron mining boom of the 1870s took place.”  The photograph shows the last ”working” day of Huntcliffe Mines, 30th June 1906. The photograph was taken outside the workshops, alas now longer with us. All that remains is the Guibal Fanhouse beside the mineral railway line, towards the cliff edge at the bottom of Warsett Hill. The writing on the door of the wall behind ”Are we downhearted?” is from a song popular at that time, perhaps relevant to the situation! With Simon Chapman’s assistance we can identify some of those present. Back row: ?? , Mr Stephens (later Cashier at Lumpsey Mine), Ralph Clough (engineer-later at Lumpsey Mine), ?? , ?? , ?? , ??. Middle row: Jimmy Dower (partially cut off), ??, ?? , ?? , ?? , ?? , ?? , ?? , ?? , ?? , ?? , William ‘Bill’ Garbutt (baby – who later worked at Kilton Mine, one of the first men to drive a locomotive underground and later Miner’s Lodge Secretary), William ‘Dick Hoss’ Garbutt, Mary Ellen Garbutt, Mr Matson (possibly a Manager). Front row: ?? , ?? , ?? , ?? , ?? , ?? , ?? . Paul Garbutt tells us: ”The baby in the photograph (Bill Garbutt) was my grandfather and this is the only photograph of him as a baby, he went on to work in the local mines and he was one of the main rescuers after the Kilton Mine explosion in May 1954. He never commented on the explosion and his subsequent actions in saving the injured miners, my father remembers that he came home that night and was a bit groggy and not his usual self ( the after effects of the gas explosion presumably ). The Evening Gazette reported on the disaster but my grandfather would not be interviewed, regarding the matter to be not worth discussing. My grandfather was an intensely private man and these few snippets of information are pretty much all we know about him, I just knew him once he was retired from work so never had the opportunity to find out about his employment history. He would never talk about himself much at all and especially not the Kilton Mine incident even though he helped save many of the miners, he was my hero regardless.” Similarly Alan Found tells us:”My grandfather worked at Kilton mine he would have been there in 1954 he never talked about the explosion.” Michael Garbutt adds: ”The baby, Bill (who is 8 month’s old in this picture) was also my grandfather. I know the lady holding him is his mother Martha Ellen Garbutt (nee Lines), both Paul’s and my Great Grandmother. The gentleman behind them is almost certainly our Great Grandfather, also William Garbutt, who was also working down the mine at this time, working with the horses, probably as a drover (he was know as Dick Hoss!). He had been in a serious accident there, around 1902, in which he was made almost totally blind in one eye, which meant he could not work there for a while, and so went up to Handale Farm at Loftus to work, and is actually where his daughter Marian was born. I also have a nice story about this photograph; as when I was talking about it to my great aunt Maud (Marian and she would have been three years old then), she mentioned that she was also there, but was shy and ran behind her mother’s skirt while it was being taken!” Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection and others, thanks to Paul Garbutt, Alan and Michael Garbutt for these details, as well Simon Chapman for his assistance, any further any help would be much appreciated.  Bell’s pit, due to its ownership by Bell Brothers, at Carlin How, was more popularly known as ”Duck Hole” (because of the very wet working conditions), it was towards the end of its working life known as North Loftus Mine. Bells Huts in Carlin How were originally built to house the workers for this mine; with just a short walk down hill to reach it! This image was probably taken by T. C. Booth of Loftus. Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection, Carlin How Community Centre and others.  Micklow Cottages were at the triangle junction of Micklow Lane and the the road to Street Houses from Skiningrove. Demolished in the 1960s and originally known as Micklehow Cottages they were one of the four collections of cottages originally developed for the alum workers of Hummersea and Boulby. Image and information courtesy of Eric Johnson.  This is a well-balanced photograph (a picture postcard believed to have been produced by T. C. Booth of Loftus) of Liverton Gardens, in the valley between Liverton and Moorsholm. It was a market garden, you can see the glass-house middle-left of the image. The house visible in the picture is a semi-detached residence, each ”semi” being a mirror-image of the other. Rodney Begg tells us: ”My wife and her brother were born here in the ’50s and they lived a while here with their Grand-parents before moving to Dodder Carr cottages.” Stan Glover advises: ”The houses are called Ponoma Villa (right hand side looking at picture), and Ponoma Cottage. The Shaw brothers Harry (Ponoma Cottage) and Ces (Liverton Mill) lived in the houses. We rented Ponoma Villa mid 1950′s to 1970′s. The reference to Shaw’s falls (re Liverton Waterfall) reflected that the land was owned by Ces Shaw.” The Falls were a noted local beauty spot and often visited. Ann Johnson adds: “I remember Harry Shaw he used to come to Moorsholm with his horse and cart.” Image courtesy of Beryl Morris, thanks to Rodney Begg, Stan Glover and Ann Johnson for the updates. |
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