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The caption says ”Cleveland Train Service, Loftus and Skinningrove Motor Express”.
I think this is an image of the bus service laid on by the North Eastern Railway when Kilton viaduct was being converted to an embankment. It shows an open bus outside Loftus Station.
It took from 1907 to 1914 to convert Kilton Viaduct to an embankment and trains continued running, but in January 1911 cracks were noticed in a pier so trains were halted for a fortnight whilst extra tipping took place to safeguard the structure. This charabanc service operated between Loftus and Skinningrove Stations for those two weeks, and trains from Liverton Mines had to get to Cargo Fleet via Whitby and Battersby. Thank you Simon for the information.
Why the constable? From the unfinished state of the drift entrance I’d say it’s either under construction or there has been an accidental collapse at the front face. I’m sure there are people out there who will put me right – I hope there are!
Mike says ”This photo shows you miners at work at the recently filled in East Winning digging out Lost Pillars c. 1890.
The men in the picture are from left to right.
Pc Welburn
Jack Norman
Ben Hamer”
He also says ”PC Welburn as well as been the village policeman was also responsible for collecting due rents from the inhabitants of the house’s as owned by Pease & Partners.
With the mine owners being a strict Quaker family – there was a ZERO tolerence on alcahol and gambling – ‘many a village’s “still”raided and the tennants evicted in the name of Pease & Partners.
PC Wellburn died in 1910 due to pneumonia at the age of 52.”
I knew someone would know – thanks Mike, rodders
Five gold stars to the person who can fill in the names – two gold stars taken off if you use Chapman’s books for reference! Only joking! looking at the midges on display this group also includes the working management of the mine, not just the topside management.
From the great grandaughter of William Hall, mining engineer – 1852 – 1942, at New Marske.
Original photo all named in William Hall’s handwriting.
Back Row L-R: B.Robinson,J.(Darkie)Reed,Ralph Clark,Dan Bailey,Harry Bowes,Wilf Hardy,Henry Goldfinch.
Middle Row L-R: Pev Thompson,William Douthwaite,Walter Durance,J.Hood,William ‘Wood’ Sigsworth,’Tiny’ Thirkettle.
Front Row L-R: William Hall,Joe Beaumont,William Howes,Christopher ‘Kit’ Heslop,William Durance,William Jones,John Bevan.
(thanks to Mike Holliday)
This has to be either bizarre or this group are the owners and their families! Who would visit an iron ore mine in walking out clothes! All the same a very good image of the travelling drift at Upleatham – can’t think why the tub would be on its side though!
Paul Anderson tells us: ”The people to the far right are my gt, gt, gt grand parients John (Jack) and Jane Pinchin of 86 Dale Street, New Marske. The photo is circa 1915-1920. They came up from Manningford, Wilshire in 1881 looking for work and had 12 children.”
Thanks to Paul for that detail.
A picture of Skinningrove Jetty at low tide, showing the vertical-boiler steam locomotive and a rake of pig-iron trucks, the two steam cranes and the fixed derrick crane on the end.
A good image of Skinningrove Jetty with SS Hummersea moored up for loading, with two steam cranes in attendance, either just before or just after high-tide – judging by the marks on the jetty wall.
Even more rare is the vertical-boilered railway engine (known as ”the coffee pot”) on the left with the train of pig-iron trucks – I’ve never seen an image with these on before, or with a vertical-boilered railway engine. The pig-iron trucks were lowered from (and raised to) the works via a rope incline down Jetty Bank – a feature still visible when I worked there.
SS Hummersea looks pristine - we wonder if this was her first trip? Her last according to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission was during World War I, when I believe she struck a mine and sank. Charles Hannaford advises us: ”My great uncle, Charles F Hannaford, was the Master of the S.S.Hummersea. The ship was lost in December 1915, probably by an enemy mine as my uncle died from his wounds in naval hospital, London on 30th December 1915 and listed as a casualty of war.
As the wounds were unlikely to have been caused through the ship floundering in the bad weather and the submarine activity at the time was low, a mine is the most logical explanation.” Thanks to Alf for that update.
Seen here, the SS Northgate at Skinningrove jetty with the cranes busy at her side.
This photograph was taken at Beck Meetings, Dale House on the 20th December 1884 (according to its caption).
It shows a train from Mr. Palmer’s Grinkle Park mine carrying workmen towards Port Mulgrave. The loco’s were cabless to allow them to travel through the low tunnel under Ridge Lane.
(correction by Simon Chapman – rodders)
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