A view of Front Street, Carlin How with pupils from the Carlin How Wesleyan Sunday School on their way to a picnic at Cragg Hall. The chapel was built in 1912, with other buildings being used prior to that date. The two boys near the railings are looking a little miserable, maybe they don’t go to Sunday School but are wishing they did. Now believed to date from c.1909 shows the trip from Carlin How square. The front garden fences are of note, they are narrow zigzag rails. Neil Suckling tells us: ”I am fairly sure that the man with his right arm on the back of the waggon, flat cap, grey beard; is my great grandfather, Alf Suckling. He was a Primitive Methodist preacher; so it may be a mixed denomination outing?”
Information courtesy of Wiggins and thanks to Neil Suckling for the update.
A tinted postcard view of the cottages at Old Saltburn that was posted in 1905, this in the days when Old Saltburn was a hamlet. The Ship Inn is on the extreme right of this view, unseen and behind the photographer would be other buildings; including the Lifeboat building, Mortuary and Rocket Launching building. The ‘Ship’ was not the only place for ‘refreshment’, as well an inn called the ‘Nimrod’ there were several ‘gin shops’!
Liverton works, with the spray bars in the right-foreground, this was actually part of the Liverton ironstone mine. Graham Suggett asked: “My grandfather worked at the Liverton Mines pit until it closed, he was winding engine foreman. He lived at Graham Street (note my given name). He kept ducks on the reservoir. Presumably the reservoir fed the spray bars. Please, what were the spray bars used for?” Simon Chapman advised: ”The water spray in the reservoir did two things: it was the exhaust steam from the engines so it was condensed back to water which also warmed up the water in the reservoir before it was pumped into the boilers. This was part of an extensive modernisation scheme at the mine about 1903 to make the place more efficient” Graham also added: “How ingenious and energy conscious those miners were. My grandfather, Harry Brown, operated the hoist until the mine closed and he retired.”
Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection and others; also thanks to Graham Suggett and to Simon Chapman for the updates.
Taken in 1933 this shows the brick wheel and the work force on the steel works. Robert Proctor told the Archive: “The purpose was to make bricks from molten blast furnace slag , many of these bricks can be found in most back alleys, they are grey with siliceous blue bands running through. It consisted of a number of moulds arranged on the outside of a wheel supported from the top by tie rods , which looked like spokes. These moulds had to be filled from a slag ladle and once set were released from the mould by dropping a door , the bricks were then put into an oven to cool down slowly so as to avoid any fractures, a type of heat treatment.” Eric Johnson supplied the following brief description of brickmaking: ”The slag was brought from the furnaces in slag ladles adapted with a tap hole. a chute was placed between this and led down to the wheel moulds. The making of slag bricks was a very labour intensive operation; once started was continuous hard, hot work. The wheel was a steel circular construction, with the steel moulds round the perimeter with a hinged bottom held with a catch. This can be all be seen in the photograph, the wheel was driven by a geared electric motor with hand operated backup. As the slag ran down the chute into the moulds, the wheel rotated, the filled moulds cooled down and at a point near the kilns, the catch was struck the hinged bottom opened the hot brick fell to the ground. It was picked up with the large “gripes”. some of the men can be seen holding in photo, carried to the kilns and stacked inside, when full the kiln was closed. as the kiln was already hot from the previous batch the working conditions for the men can be imagined.”
Second man front right is Harry Dack from Carlin How; does anyone know any more of the men here?
Image courtesy of Derick Pearson and others; thanks to Robert Proctor and Eric Johnson for the updates.
Four cottages made up this row of fine freestone buildings with red clay pantile roofs. They were set in the fields between Loftus and Easington (going through Foulsyke, just past the houses there is a small gate that leads via a public footpath to the cliff road). Over one field and then Arthur Fields came into view. If my memory serves me rightly there was a windmill in the field near these cottages, long since demolished (both the windmill and the cottages). This collection of cottages sadly no longer with us, were similar to those of Micklow Cottages and were developed to house the alum workers of Hummersea. Katherine Johnson told the Archive: “My great grandparents lived at Arthur Fields for many years. They were Joseph and Ada Readman and their son Eddie lived with them for a while too. At one point in the 1950’s my mother – Margaret Johnson nee Readman moved in with her parents Betty and Alban Readman and her brother Francis Readman. I believe this was only for a short time.”
Kay Petherick adds: “I have just discovered that the daughter of my great great grandparents lived at no. 2 in the 1891 census. Mary Brignall (nee Johnson) with her husband Robert and their 4 children. What a disappointment to find the cottages no longer exist.”
Image courtesy of the David Linton Collection and others, thanks to Katherine Johnson and Kay Petherick for the updates.
Built in 1872 the Primitive Methodist Chapel at Street Houses; the former chapel now forms part of the farm buildings of Street Houses Farm. The stables beside the chapel experienced the Zeppelin raid of 1916. Considerable burning took place, which is still evident in the rafters of the stables. The chapel (now in the process of repair by Tony Garbutt) survived to this day, despite being ”modified” for use as a barn by previous farm owners.
Taken in the 1950’s the Skinningrove iron and steel works were at full production and covered a large area. The four large chimneys are the exhaust chimneys for the furnaces on the melting shop; on the cliff edge can be seen No. 5 Blast Furnace.
Stripping moulds from 4.75 ton ingots of steel, in a place appropriately called the Stripping Sheds. The numbers on the moulds provided traceability to the cast from which the steel was made (probably the pot too). From here the ingots went to the Soaking Pits to be kept at an even temperature ready for Cogging.
Thanks to Eric Johnson for supplementary information.
A fairly recent image of Saltburn taken from the steep climb up the Cleveland Way behind The Ship Inn. Ray Brown was asking about the old building next to the Old Mortuary. Callum Duff advises us: ”In actual fact, the building next to the Mortuary was the Rocket Brigade. The Brigade were designed to aid the lifeboat crews and attempt to secure a line from dryland to ships in difficulty. The lifeboat house actually stood next door and was demolished sometime between 1924 (when the Saltburn lifeboat ‘Mary Batger’ was sold) and the start of World War II.”
Image courtesy of Raymond Brown and many thanks to Callum Duff for that update.
Not the “Boys from the Blackstuff”, but the boys from the potash mine. This photograph was taken outside the surface workshops.
From left to right: Bob Beadnell, Jack Wren, Wilf Mackinder, Gordon Fletcher, Albert Breckon, Jimmy Warral, John Richardson, Les Atkinson, Mel Picket, Raymond Pearson, Frank Smith, Ray Broom, John James, Colin Philipson, Alan Cox, Terry Robinson, Jeff Verrill, Dennis Bulman, and last but not least Colin Readman.
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