A post card view of the normally quiet stream through the centre of Skinningrove; taken from a C O Smelt postcard, date as yet unknown. This image created a stir when first posted and attracted comments from: Derick Pearson with: “I cannot remember the weir in the center of Skinningrove village as it says in the caption.” He went on to suggest the viaduct area with two possibilities. Elizabeth Mellor suggested near the pump house on the jetty. Colin Hart advised”There was always a drop in the level of the beck under the railway bridge at the top of Zetland Row. The background looks like the stone from the railway bridge and the brick wall(top right) will be the wall around the school yard.” A. Andrew confirmed this suggestion with: “This looks like the pump house weir, near Angling Green.” Further researches by the Archive have confirmed this suggestion.
Image courtesy of Joyce Dobson and Keith Bowers, thanks to Derick Pearson, Elizabeth Mellor, Colin Hart and A. Andrew for the updates.
Skinningrove Post Office building was originally built in the 1500s as Skinningrove Hall. It was later to be replaced by the building we used to know as Timms Coffee House 1704 (now Moonfleet); it is reputedly the oldest building in Skinningrove.
Obviously taking their ease beside the bridge over the stream, leading to Dickie Bothroyd’s bank. Pauline Breeze tells us: ”I believe the gentleman third from the right is my great-grandad George William ‘Will’ Hart, married to Amelia Hart formerly Wallace.” Christine Hindwell adds: “I think that the gentleman on the far right of the photo is William Easton my grandfather, he was married to Frances (Fanny) Wallace.” Can you recognise anybody?
Image courtesy of Joyce Dobson & Keith Bowers; also thanks to Pauline Breeze and Christine Hindwell for the updates.
A view of the jetty when it was the regular berth for the ore ships, we like the man approaching the jetty with what appears to be his bait box under his arm.
An early refuse cart for the Council, possibly dating from the 189os. I could not have carried a vast amount as the donkey appears quiet small. Can anybody assist with a possible date or even information?
An early image of the pier complete with small building at the end. The sea looks a little tempestuous, hardly surprising that there is not a person in sight! Callum Duff tells us: ”The building at the end of the pier is a bandstand with protective wooden and glass screens inset from the pierhead railings. The bandstand survived until after World War II where presumably the fashion changed and it was removed as part of Saltburn Pier’s post war improvements.”
Image courtesy of Joyce Dobson & Keith Bowers and thanks to Callum Duff for the update.
A “posh” post card with four separate views of Robin Hoods Bay with a central section bearing the coat of arms. Delightful coloured views of “Bay Town”.
Quite a throng gathered outside the Green Tree! Half the school must have emptied as the word got around that a photographer was coming! Dating this image is simplified as the Archive is aware that the hotel had alterations between 1901 and 1906. Also interesting is the shop beyond the hotel, this building is now a private house and no sign of the large double fronted shop remain.
Image courtesy of John G. Hannah, thanks also to Nivard Ovington for his assistance in datingthe alterations to the Green Tree.
The Archive believed this to be possibly in the Esk Valley, but welcomed further details. Did you know the ploughman? William Castle has told us: ”In Gordon Clitheroe’s book ‘Ryedale’ he has this picture as Edgar Dowson ploughing near Hutton-le -Hole, probably just before the II World War. The Beck Isle Museum in Pickering (where Mr Clitheroe is Curator) also has this picture, possibly the original. Colin Grice has a further update: ”It is very likely just east of the road between Hutton-le-Hole and Keldholme – looking towards Kirkbymoorside (hidden). The Dowsons lived at Halfway House just up the road.”
Image courtesy of Joyce Dobson and Keith Bowers, thanks also to William Castle and Colin Grice for the updates.
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