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Chris scott on Fillers
Sue Swalwell on Loftus Junior School 1964
Andrew Jagels on Doreen
Mike hopper on Loy House?
Tracy on The Thurlows at Boulby Barns Farm
Julie Hall on Loftus Senior School 1947ish?
Mary Thewlis on Loftus Forge
Clare on Charltons Mission Football Team
Sally-Anne McIntosh on Sykes House (1900)
Margaret Squadrani (Wilson) on Towers School Saltburn
William Alderson on Tractors Displayed at Stokesley Show
Brian Kitt on Glen How School
Heidi Talbot on Terrace For Sale
George Tremain on Are There Fairies At The Bottom Of your Garden
Kay Petherick on Loftus Hall
Kathryn Cawood on Sykes House (1900)
Ross Barnett on Danny Found and Loftus Mine Workers
Chris Bailey on Sykes House (1900)
Janet Wilson on Codling Family
Anne Hindmarsh on A Very Handsome Gentleman

Before and After

Do you remember when Harrop’s chemist looked like this? Wish I weighed as much now as I did on those scales. Thomas Harrop was born in 1914 and educated at Guisborough Grammar School, he served a five-year apprentice at Prosser’s 10 Zetland Road, (do you remember that shop; where Breckon and Shaw’s used to be?) He qualified in 1939, marrying in 1940 he opened the chemist’s in 1957. Sadly Tom passed away in 1980 the shop then was owned by Mr Ray Silver, who served the people of Loftus for many years. Still bearing the trading name of ‘Harrops Pharmacy’ it is now part of Oakside Pharmacy Ltd; it continues to play an important role in the community.

Image and information courtesy of Ray Silver.

East Loftus Men

Believed to having been photographed at the entrance to the then Royal Hotel in East Loftus (large building in the background being the United bus garage); we don’t know when this photograph was taken, but some of the men on it are:

Standing at the back: Harry Guy, Noel Pearson

Front (left to right): Don Pinkney, ??, ??, Bob Morrison, ??, Ernest (Cocky) Cockburn, Alf Pearson, ??, Bob Pearson. Ian Pearson tells us: ”To the left of Don Pinkney is Lenny Calvert. Behind Alf & Bob Pearson I think is Tommy Morrison.” Eric Trembath tells us: ”Directly behind Ernie Cockburn is Al Davey, it is Tom Loy Morrison.”

The rest of the men I cannot name, can you?

Image courtesy of Joan Jemson; thanks to Angela Cockburn for naming her Great Uncle Ernest Cockburn of East Crescent, also Ian Pearson, Eric Trembath and Lee Guy for the updates.

Loftus Town Hall

A Frith series postcard of the Town Hall; the card bears a postmark of 1968.
Image courtesy of Carolyn Richards.

The Steel Works, c. 1967

A view of the steel works from High Street, Skinningrove.

Image courtesy of Pat Sparkes.

High Street, Skinningrove, c.1967

Skinningrove High Street from the seaward end, looking towards The Square. The end of Stone Row can be seen at the left in the background. Colin Hart tells us: ” The building to the left at the top of the High Street is the end of Stone Row, the chapel sits back and cannot be seen.” A. N. Andrew also says: “The building in the centre background is the Co-operative which was the start of New Company Row.”
Image courtesy of Pat Sparkes and thanks to Colin Hart and A. N. Andrew for the updates.

Skinningrove, c.1967

A view of Skinningrove taken from the old path round the cliff to the jetty.

Image courtesy of Pat Sparkes.

The Steel Works, Skinnningrove

Another view of Skinningrove Iron and Steel Works from a nearer vantage point, clearly showing the slag processing plant; also visible are three blast furnaces.

Skinningrove Iron and Steel Works

Taken from Brotton road on an autumn day with Skinningrove works in full production; dating from about early 1960’s.

Spa Wood Blacksmiths

A quirky image by modern standards, but typical of the type of narrative image that occurred in early photography. Alfred Wither (left) blacksmith for Spawood and South Skelton Mines with his striker (right) and stable-hands, an indispensable part of the iron mining industry, they made and maintained just about every tool in use in the mine. Just who the well-dressed little boy is in the middle I do not know – can anyone tell me please?

Image courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum.

Skinningrove Iron and Steel Works Sinter Plant

Taken in the late 1950’s this photograph shows none of that characteristic staining from the sinter dust. Commissioned in 1957, built by Head Wrightson and the Sinter Plant stood on the site of the old coke works and blast furnace range.

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