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 What more can I say about this photograph the heading says it all; the stable hands of Lumpsey mine. The Archive would welcome any information regarding dating this image or even any of the stable hands in the photograph. Image courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum.  A lovely hand tinted photograph of the ever popular Arlington Street. The tinting was done with watercolours over the original sepia/black and white print and was very popular before the advent of cheap colour photography.  A view over the Gas works and Skinningrove village from the fields above Wood Road, looking over the gas works towards the sea. Image courtesy of Mrs. Breckon.  The Coastguards group are outside Staithes village hall and the certificates were from the R.S.P.C.A. for an animal rescue. We have some of the names of the men in the photograph: 1. ??, 2. ??, 3. Harry Reed, 4. Rev. B. Tatham, 5. ??, 6. ??, 7. Norman Conn, 8. ??, 8. ??, 9. George Hugill, 10. ??. Margaret Verrill Craggs tells: “George Hugill was my uncle. His son Edward Verrill Hugill lives in Marske.” Lesley Short adds: “Harry Reed was my uncle, married to my mother’s sister. I visited Staithes with my mother, father and brother during the early 1960s. Wonderful memories.” Whilst Dorothy Smith (nee Reed) advises: “My father is Harry Reed pictured here, we moved to Staithes just after the war for my Dad to serve with the Coastguard and live in the Coastguards house on Cliff Road. Thank you very much for the photograph.” Can someone add more details, please? Image courtesy of Mr. Ray Conn (from a photograph, copyright John Tindale, Whitby).  Members of the Staithes Coastguard Auxiliary Service; Norman Conn, Harry Reed and Harold Beyham with the life-saving gear for rescue from the shore. The Archive has a request from Chris Bell: “Does anybody have any information regarding the rocket House on the Cowbar at Staithes which was used for marine rescue?” Image courtesy of Mr. Ray Conn, thanks to Chris Bell for that request.  Harry Reed and Norman Conn with a boy from Middlesbrough who had been rescued by the Staithes Auxiliary Coastguards. Does anyone know more of the story, please? Image and details courtesy of Mr. Ray Conn (photograph under copyright of L.W. & C.D. Richardson, Redcar).  An image of the old St. Peter’s Church in Brotton, demolished about 1958 – all that’s left now is the plinth on which it stood – (near to the graves of its priests). A little more information has come to light in an extract from a booklet “Know your Parish” it states:- “When St Margaret’s was built St. Peter’s became the mortuary chapel, this chapel was cleaned & restored in 1901 but was demolished later. When the workmen removed some large flagstones near to where the altar had stood they discovered a tunnel which had been bricked up some time in the past. The registers commence in 1641, baptism to 1881: marriages to 1901 and burials to 1956? Image courtesy of Raymond Brown. Thanks to Simon Chapman and Ray Brown for the updates.  A well photographed place Skinningrove, but a nice clear image, showing the houses and the works. In the foreground is the Gas showroom, behind it can be seen the footbridge linking up to Wood Road and up to Grove Hill. Image courtesy of Joan Jemson.  This photograph loaned to us by Geoff Hore; shows the valley off beautifully and the once well tended allotments. I am informed that Skinningrove school had an allotment here, did you ever work on it? John Winspear tells us: “The Senior School certainly did have an allotment here; situated just behind the gasometers and the road which ran between Skinningrove and Loftus. It was part of the school curriculum then and my year group was tasked with the Wednesday slot to tend it, under the attention of Mr. Temple (Duggie).” Image courtesy of Geoff Hoare, thanks to John Winspear for the update.  The photograph was annotated with the following: Chair of Council Mrs. Irene Rye, with Miss Millennium Natalie Johnson and attendants. Outside Town Hall in the year 2000. |
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