A late afternoon shot by the look of it, enough haze to fool the exposure meter, but definitely a pair of 37s, both in different BR liveries – the front one sporting the frog-eye head code boxes.
Image courtesy of Russ Pigott.
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 A view of a Class 101 DMU approaching Redcar in the early 1980s; a previous poster had added the comment ”I hated these smelly, noisy, uncomfortable, draughty things – it made the bus worthwhile – and a car inevitable. I notice that this is before Redcar Central Station became a business park and the railway became single track.” Tom Sayers has replied with: ”These DMU1s were very comfortable and not at all draughty. This track is not, and never has been single track.”  Taken from the back of the signal box looking towards the works, this image shows the train assembly yards for Skinningrove Works. I can’t make up my mind whether it’s a guard’s van or a small shunter on the rightmost rake of wagons. Image courtesy of Russ Pigott.  The Class 37, like the 25 and the 20, is the unsung hero of the diesel era. A scaled down Class 40 it has pulled everything under the sun, single, double and triple-headed!  There is something about black and white and railway images, they just seem to go well together. Here, a Class 37 and a train of empties head across the new bridge at Carlin How en-route to Boulby for loading.  Possibly the same pair as the other post, just rolling with the loaded train.  Slightly contre-jour (backlight), a photograph of a couple of Class 20s in the classic nose-to-nose configuration, leaving the loading yard at Boulby Potash, bound for Saltburn Junction. Image courtesy of Russ Pigott.  I told Russ that my favourite diesels were Class 20s, Class 25s and Class 37s – there follows a whole series of lovely images – from that privileged track-side position.  How lovely to see Guisborough like this free of traffic. Dating the image is possibly best via directories and Census: Bulmer’s Directory of 1890 lists a William Jackson as a Bootmaker trading in the Market Place, the 1891 Census lists William Jackson, but the 1901 Census does not. So the photograph was probably taken post 1891. We are still researching! Image from a collection compiled by Derick Pearson.  I wonder what the topic of the day was with these men gathered at the cross in Guisborough? You wouldn’t or couldn’t stand there today. Owen Rooks suggests: “This is only a suggestion-not a definitive answer! This could be a picture of the hirings, A process by which young able bodied men were engaged as agricultural labourers on yearly contracts. My father left school at the age of 12 in the early 1900’s and became a farm worker living in with his employers at various locations around the area. I remember him telling me how he walked from Skelton to stand at the Market Cross in Guisborough in the hope that someone would “hire” him. I don’t know how often this ritual occurred but it must have been a rather humiliating process. The picture seems to show such a group of young men with a prospective employer standing to the left (holding the stick). Thanks to Owen Rooks for the update. |
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