Goathland with only the sheep to disturb the peace, soon to be transformed after filming began for the ”Heartbeat” T.V. series; as the fictional village of Aidensfield.
Image courtesy of Joyce Dobson and Keith Bowers.
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 Taken from the west we can clearly see the shop of C. J. Dodd & Co; the Presbytery in the background and the original shop with living accommodation above in the building now the Co-op. A hand tinted postcard produced by H. G. Glen & Co of Leeds pre-1913. Image courtesy of Margaret and Michael Garbutt.  Can you remember these girls and where are they now? Image courtesy of Loftus Youth Club.
North Road Loftus, looking uphill towards Seymour Hill on the way to North Terrace. A scene virtually unchanged from the present day. The shop on the right is now a private residence. But the new housing estate is beginning to appear at the top of the hill.  I would have loved to have seen them at this dance; dinner jackets for the men and long dresses for the ladies! Were you there, can you tell us about it? Image courtesy of Loftus Youth Club.  Is this for a fancy dress or for a Youth Club performance? Who is making the mummy can you name her? Image courtesy of Loftus Youth Club.  Carlin How square, with an early E type United bus picking up passengers, sometime in the 1920’s. Image courtesy of Joyce Dobson and Keith Bowers.  A carefully arranged viewing of a group outside Easington Post Office, when it was the first property on Lambert Terrace. Wasn’t it was also a shop run by Mrs Mary Cooke for over thirty years. Pam McVay commented: “Yes I think this was a shop and I think my mum Bette Robinson was born there, I think it belonged to her mother’s family; Cooke.” David Bertram asked: “It was a general store when it was a Post Office. I think I recall that it all ended in tragedy with the suicide of one or both of the couple who ran it.” Easington Post Office (and general store) was owned by Jean and John Wilson in the early 1980s, tragically Jean who was Loftus born and bred died suddenly in her fifties in 1985 and John sadly committed suicide some three months later. A great loss to the village. Image courtesy of Joyce Dobson & Keith Bowers and many thanks to David Bertram and Pamela McVay for the updates.  A further image of the 1909 derailment on the Liverton Viaduct showing how the N.E.R. overcame the problems that accidents caused to its passenger timetable. Drawn up close to the head of the accident (on the Loftus side) is a commuter train. The passengers from a Whitby-bound train can be seen walking along the trackbed, some with small children, to board the commuter train, which will then take them on the rest of their journey. Simon Chapman tells us: ”The accident occurred in 1909 and the wagons involved were fairly new. Unusually for mineral wagons they had continuous (air) brakes and were being used on trains between Liverton Mines and Cargo Fleet Works.” The Breakdown Crane Association advised: ”The crane appears to be a Cowans Sheldon 15-tonner. I think it’s likely to have been either CME 1 or CME 2 which were built in 1893 for the NER.” Image courtesy of Joyce Dobson and Keith Bowers, many thanks to Simon Chapman and the Breakdown Crane Association for additional information.  In the church at Liverton, Anthony Laverick and Doreen Worrel made their vows. Were you there, tell the Archive! Image courtesy of Loftus Youth Club. |
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