Now we can see Arbroath House as a three storey building on the left of the photograph, it looks as though the road has been made up and I love the car in the picture, could this be the 1930’s?
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The title sums up the image, the cinema is here, Covell the butchers is pictured complete with Hillman Husky delivery van and bicycle in front of the shop. The bus looks like Kelly Watson’s Bedford bus; Eric Johnson tells us: “I remember Kelly Watson’s buses with the wooden seats, Ohhhh were they uncomfortable? You didn’t want to be travelling far on those!” Malcolm Covell tells us: “Yes it is my dad’s Hillman Husky in front of our shop, after that one we had a red one with a white roof (very posh!!); I think that was about 1956. Then in 1962 we got a black new model Morris Oxford. I think your date of 1950 is just a couple of years optimistic , I would put it at 1952. Yes I also think it’s Kelly Watson’s old Bedford bone shaker. I’ve got one or two photos somewhere I know I’ve got one from outside the angel inn looking across the empty market place to our shop with my dad and elder brother Dennis on the shop doorstep. It will be about 1955 / 56. Thanks to Malcolm Covell for the update.
It’s getting a bit repetitious now! Looking towards the loading bay this time we have more of the jetty workforce – can you name them?
This image of the workforce of the jetty was taken from the Jetty platform looking up the incline towards the engine house. The Archive’s question is: can anybody name them?
This is the image that everybody has seen at some time. Taken half-way up the rope incline from the works it shows two rakes of pig iron bogies, one of the company steam tramps and the dock-side cranes. Taken by George Skilbeck, photographically the incline trackway leads the eye into the image and out through the curve of the jetty, which is probably why it has stood the test of time; it has good artistic composition. Unfortunately this image had been ‘cropped’ before receipt to the Archive and continue to hope for an original undamaged image.
How many people have spent many a happy night fishing off the end of this old structure; passing through a period of looking the worse for wear and lack of maintenance, it is now restored to its former glory. Here it is in it’s heyday, the coffee-pot locomotive steaming away and a rake of pig iron bogies waiting to load. The steam cranes are working on one of the company ships and a good solid industrial image.
Once again the obvious question – can you name these men – with the exception of Jack Harrison? Back Row: ??, ??, John (Jack) Harrison, ??, ??, ??, ??. Front Row: ??, ??, ??, Capt. Fryatt, ??. We are told by David Richardson: ”One of the crew may be Thomas Gifford. His marriage certificate (1899) gives his usual residence as being SS Skinningrove.” Image courtesy of Eric Johnson and thanks to David Richardson for the update.
An extremely clean SS Skinningrove moored at Skinningrove jetty. It was the first of the four steamers owned by The Skinningrove Iron Company; she was employed carrying pig iron to the Company’s customers. Image courtesy of the Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum.
”South Skelton Mine – 2nd December 1903” is the information this image; however Eric Johnson advises: ”Three of the men are holding carpentry tools; wood plane, large saw and set square. The front row are sitting on a plank between two saw “horses” (benches). They maybe joiners, tub repairers etc., also on the front row some men appear to be wearing oilskins (shaft workers ??). Simon Chapman’s book ”South Skelton Mine” has a photograph contemporary with this dated 6 days after this image”. Any more information would be welcomed. Image courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum.
I’m guessing a bit here, but there’s a fair-cross section of society depicted, so I reckon this is the mine manager with his management team. The man seated on the right with the walking stick has a shot cannister under his arm. Can somebody could supply names we’d get a better picture? Image courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum. |
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