Loftus Youth Club shooting team defending their title in a small bore rifle competition at Norton TA centre for Teesside Youth Clubs. Our image shows the successful team of: Keith Holt, James Richardson, Lieutenant Gordon Robey, Colin Cook and Les Morrison. Lieutenant Robey was officially instructing the team in techniques. Loftus were the defending champions and Colin Cook scored the maximum of 100 out of a possible 100 in the final. Can anybody assist with a year for this event.
East Row road bridge was obviously demolished by serious flooding 20th May 1910. The present day road bridge continues to be a problem for modern road traffic, despite the addition of an adjacent footbridge. The modern weather conditions have obviously been experienced before, as our image clearly shows. Richard Fox has advised the Archive; the Whitby Gazette on 24th May 2010 to comemmorate this event presented the original commentary to a photograph of the disaster: “A severe storm on 20 May 1910 reduced the East Row Bridge to rubble as the beck became a raging torrent that tore up trees from Mulgrave Woods and hurled them into a bridge. East Row Bridge was built from 1778-1780 to a design by John Carr. Some commentators have suggested the pillars were undermined by the spate but it was the large amount of wood that effectively blocked the arches and caused a dam behind the bridge that caused it to break. It was this blocking of the small arches that prompted the design of a single arch that could not be blocked by tree debris. The previous wooden bridge at East Row was dismantled in 1777 and moved to Raithwaite”.
Image courtesy of Joyce Dobson and Keith Bowers, thanks to Richard Fox for directing the Archive to the Whitby Gazettes excellent article.
Loftus Youth Club. The lone gentleman in the photograph is Chris Harrison the Club Leader. The pastries on the table may give a clue as to the occasion, decorations suggest a christmas party. But who are the ladies and what year did it take place? (And can anyone remember Hoggett’s crisps ?).
Pond Farm Hinderwell. The family home of theTyerman’s as well as general farming they also bred Cleveland Bay Horses. Members of the Tyerman family also lived in Holme Farm, Hinderwell High Street. The family had strong connections to the Brown Cow on the High Street. Image courtesy of Elaine Meadows (nee Tyerman).
Home of the Tyerman family with strong links to Pond Farm and the Brown Cow. Both the farm and the inn are almost opposite on the High Street in Hinderwell. Holme farm was later the home of the Sanderson family.
Family group wedding with the marriage of Emily Jefferson to Stanley Hill; 16th June 1913. Jefferson was the female side of the Tyerman family line. Back row: ??, ??, Joseph Henry Tyerman (Senior), ??, ??. MIddle row: ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, Annie Tyerman (nee Jefferson – wife of Joseph Henry Tyerman (Senior) holding Joseph Henry Tyerman (Junior), ??, ??. Front row: ??, ??, ??…. Seated on grass on the grass, far right: Vena Tyerman (Elaine’s Aunt).
Image and names courtesy of Elaine Meadows (daughter of Joseph Henry Tyerman – Junior).
Were you there, please let us know. John and Kath Winspear updated with: “Reg and Fran are now living in Sydney, Australia; had two children Andrea and Allison. Reg is in his naval uniform, he served his time at Skinningrove Iron Co as a fitter; then went on to train in the world of computers being one of the first to work at the Fylingdales Early Warning Station on the North Yorkshire moors. He went on to work at Rolls Royce before emigrating to Australia. My wife Kathleen and me kept in touch and spent a wonderful time with them in 2007, they have since visited us here in UK.”
Image courtesy of Loftus Youth Club, thanks to John and Kath Winspear for the update.
The small signal cabin on the zigzag line down to Skinningrove was situated under the viaduct before the infilling by shale from Liverton mine creating the embankment which can be still seen. Trains from Carlin How ran down the zigzag and under the viaduct, then reversed by the points shown down to Skinningrove; the signalman is standing by the points lever. The elaborate ironwork on the viaduct is now hidden by the shale embankment.
This view of Zetland Road shows the original brick pavements and unmetalled road. How the pram on the right of the image must have been vibrated as it was pushed along on the pavement. Notice also the absence of the now familiar red post box on the support wall for the monumental masons displays. Image courtesy of Joyce Dobson & Keith Bowers.
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