Around about 1911, part of Kilton Viaduct began to suffer from subsidence due to it being undermined by ironstone mining. It was decided to bury the viaduct in shale from the shale tips of the local ironstone mines. Creating an embankment and ensure future stability. Before they could do this it was necessary to culvert Kilton Beck. This image, taken from a postcard shows part of the culverting process; with wooden shuttering in place to make the culvert. Also visible is an aerial rope-way for carrying raw materials to the site.
Image courtesy of The Pem Holliday Collection, John G. Hannah (also on cd produced by Derick Pearson).
Who was Dave Willey and is he on the photograph, if so which one is he? I would be very grateful if anyone could tell the names of an of the men pictured here, or where the photograph was taken. Derick Pearson commented: “I named it Dave Wiley and team. Dave Wiley was an aged gentleman, he lived in Bells Huts with Sarah his wife who was born there and died there. She was the last resident in those Huts living at Number one. Sarah showed me and some other youngsters this and other photographs; this photograph I obtained many years later was I felt sure a copy of the one I had seen at her home. Hence the name, I put it on display in the 1983 Exhibition but no one confirmed or denied it. Dave is the one in the centre behind the ball if this is one Sarah showed us.”
Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection, also contained in a compilation by Derick Pearson in 1983, thanks to Derick Pearson for the update.
That is what the caption on the photograph says. The Archive asked: “What is happening there? David Richardson suggested: “I’d say this photo shows the works associated with the construction of the Kilton Beck Culvert before the Viaduct was filled in during 1913.” Eric Johnson assists with: “I believe this is the raw materials site; for constructing the culvert under Kilton Viaduct, prior to filling in with shale. The wide chute on the photograph has a large pile of material at the base, the top of the chute is widened to facilitate tipping of wagons, possibly from the zig zag line to Skinningrove. The smaller chute maybe for sending down wooden battens, to the work area; where there is a vertical steam boiler. Possibly to supply steam to a hauler engine for the narrow gauge railway running from the material pile on the left of the photograph. This is on a hopper wagon, some hoppers are alongside the rails, upside down. Stacks of wooden planks can be seen on the hillside near the cabins, with several saw benches for making the shuttering for the culvert arch.” Derick Pearson also offered: “The narrow chute reminds me of the type used to walk down to a work site when on a batter side, there is a man stood in it at the bottom. It could also have been a water chute to feed the boiler and of course be used for the concrete mixes.” This sums up the image satisfactorily.
Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection, also thanks to David Richardson, Eric Johnson and Derick Pearson for resolving query as to when and why.
The Mine Manager and various officials of Lumpsey Pit.
Standing: ??, William Stephens, ??, ??, Mr Ralph Clough Jnr (son of Mr Clough Lumpsey Mine Engineer – 1911 Census lists Ralph as an Enginewright).
Seated: Mr. Robert Clough (Engineer), Mr. Dixon (Manager), ??.
Simon Chapman advises us: ” Mr Stephens is the chap standing at the left with the light-coloured cap and the well-starched collar. The chap standing at the right with the bowler hat and the bushy moustacheI think was Mr Clough, son of the engineer sitting front left.”
Rod Umpleby tells us: ”William Stephens who was shown previously in the photograph 1906 of the closure of Huntcliffe Mine. He was described as later cashier at Lumsey Mine. He was my great-great uncle and the 1911 census gave his occupation as mines treasurer.”
Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection, thanks to Simon Chapman and Rod Umpleby for these updates and can anybody assist with any more names and information?
The end of a shift at Lumpsey Mine, again about 1910; at least that is what I am presuming. Some of the men have logs under their arms these would be the off cuts from the pit props. Anyone recognise any of the men in this photograph?
Not the most charming group of men we have ever seen and believed to be some of the work force of Lumpsey Mine, we presume that the man in the middle is a blacksmith? Please correct us if we are wrong. We think the blacksmith is James Kennedy on the photograph, he was recorded as a Blacksmith in 1911, whilst his brother John was listed as a Platelayer Underground. The container held by the miner on the right was for carrying water or cold tea and was known as a ‘Dudley’.
Left to right from the back row: B. Catron, J. Wilks, T. Clay, W. Clay, H. Clay, W. Marshall, C. Bealwall, Robert Marley, J. W. Marshall, J. Walton, J. Clay, G. Best, S. Webb, T. Curtley, R. Clough, R. Peacock, W. Cross, T. Jackson, J. Kennedy, D. Annear, T. Marshall, J. Beadon. Donna Wilson contacted the Archive with: “I think R. Marley on this picture might be Robert Marley, born 1879 in Liverton Street, Guisborough; son of David and Anne Marley. David and Anne are my great, great grand parents; I come from Robert’s older sister, Diana Marley; born 1873, she married Arthur Charles Wilson.” Whilst James Wilks added: “J. Wilks is my great granddad who was a lovely man apparently and looks the spit of my dearly departed granddad when he was young.”
Thanks to Donna Wilson and James Wilks for the updates.
Recent Comments