This double image is a postcard and reverse of Ryan’s shop once a feature of the Market Place, Loftus. Brought to the Archive by Robert Graham’s granddaughter, the card included details of Robert , but unfortunately no others are mentioned. Can you help?

Ryan’s shop situated in the Market Place, managed it is believed by Mr Robert Graham who features in the image. Robert Graham lived in ”Tin City” at Boulby and arranged a petition (Robert’s letter presented the petition to The Minister of Health (in London) to prevent the demolition of the village by Loftus Urban District  Council in 1935. This image could well date from this time.

??, Robert Graham, ??, ??, ??, ??.

We have however only some names and would appreciate assistance in filling the names, as  well as any further information.

Image kindly supplied by the Graham family.

This family portrait of the Codling family was taken in about 1907?

Back row:Margaret (Maggie), Isaac (Ike), Richard (Dick), Elizabeth (Lizzie), Matthew (Mattie), Thomas (Tom), Indiana (Indie).

 Middle row: Thomas, Rachel, Mary, Hannah and Margaret with Daisy in her arms.

Front row: Greta, Violet.

Not shown on this picture is William the last and final baby of this generation of the Codling family. We are also advised (by Sandra Payne) that Indiana married Sarah’s greta uncle Joseph William Cook in 1914.  Mavis Gray advises that Hannah married Albert Gray (her mother-in-law) in 1919.

Thanks to Kate Patton (Dowson) for this image and details. Also thanks to Sandra Payne and Mavis Gray for the updates.

Georgina Thurlow, Mrs. Wilson’s grandmother, would only have been about two or three years old when this photograph was taken at Boulby Barns.  Sally (Sarah Hannah), one of  her sisters was eight years older.

Thanks to Mrs. J. Wilson for the photograph and information.

Boulby Barns Farm is on the old road, near the top of the bank, between Skinningrove and Staithes. The Thurlow family gathered for a special occasion in about 1907.   Even the little girls are wearing wonderful hats. 

Mrs. Wilson’s grandmother, Georgina Thurlow is third from the left on the back row.  Two of her sisters, Lucy and Sarah are standing in the doorway.  The other four sisters and their mother are sitting on the chairs, (from left), …2.Mary Ann with Marjorie, 3.Bessie with Lucy, ……5.Isabel Thurlow (their mother), 6.Barbara, and Ada with Billy at the end.  As Owen says, Amy (a grandchild) is the young girl standing between Barbara and Ada.  

Can anyone tell us what the occasion was, or name any other members of the family?

Thanks to Owen Rooks for the following information:

I believe that the girl (wearing the rather fetching large white hat) standing 2nd from right on the front row is Amy Thurlow. Amy became a close friend of my mother in about 1920 when for a time they were neighbours at Boulby- my mother (before she married) may have worked at Boulby Barns. Many years later, Amy shared a home in Park Terrace, Loftus with Florence (Flo) Fletcher and they both shared a life long friendship with my mother who died in 1973. In the late 1940’s, Amy and Flo ran a corner shop in Tees Street, East Loftus.

(Image courtesy of Mrs. J. Wilson)

This photograph of the seven sisters was taken at Boulby Barns in about 1905.  That was the year in which both Mary Ann and Bessie got married.

Ada, Sarah Hannah (Sally) and Barbara are standing at the back.  Mary Ann, Bessie and Lucy are sitting on the chairs.  Georgina, the youngest, is sitting on the ground in front.

Thanks to Mrs. J. Wilson for the photograph and information.

I had made a mistake with the names.  Gordon Main has been in touch to tell us that ”if you look carefully I notice that they are all wearing the same dresses as in the large family photo so I suspect it was taken on the same day.  Mary Ann  is in the dark dress on the front row in both cases.  In the family picture she is nursing my Aunt Marjorie as a large baby . As it is June/July (see the roses) this makes Marjorie about 1 year old which dates the picture to summer 1907.”  Many thanks to him for this information, as I can now name the sisters in the large family group.

A lovely studio portrait of the two ladies, but I don’t know anything else about them.

The lady standing on the left could be Isabel Thurlow of Boulby Barns Farm.

(Image courtesy of Mrs. J. Wilson)

This family group was taken in about 1910 at Boulby Barns Farm.  John and Isabel Thurlow are seated, second right and second left, surrounded by their two sons and seven daughters.  Georgina is third from the left, at the back, and the child seated in front is Amy, one of their granddaughters.  Can someone tell us any more about the family and why they have all got together for the photograph?

I now know that the daughters were Mary Ann, Bessie, Lucy Sarah, Barbara, Ada and Georgina. 

Thanks to Anne Codling, great granddaughter of Ada, for her comment – the two sons would be Henry and Christopher.  John and Isabel had a third son, Edwin, who had died in 1881.

(Image courtesy of Mrs. J. Wilson)

John Thurlow feeding the chickens in the yard at Boulby Barns.

(Image courtesy of Mrs. J. Wilson)

John Thurlow is sitting on the barrow while one of the younger men is forking the hay off the cart to build the stack.

(Image courtesy of Mrs. J. Wilson)

Mrs. Wilson thinks that this photo was probably taken at Boulby Barns.

Georgina Codling (Thurlow) is on the left of the back row.  Could Isabel be the little girl in the middle?

I wonder what the occasion was.  The young woman on the left, at the front, is holding a small parcel. 

(Image courtesy of Mrs. J. Wilson)

Mr. Main sent us this portrait of his grandmother, and the next, following a recent visit to Loftus and Boulby.  Mary Ann was the eldest daughter of John and Isabella Thurlow of Boulby Barns Farm.  She was born in 1875.  He thinks that this portrait was probably taken for her 21st birthday while she was working at Studley Royal, near Ripon, in 1896.

(Image courtesy of Gordon Main).

Mr. Main sent us this photograph of his grandmother, Mary Ann Thurlow, aged 21.  It was taken at Studley Royal, near Ripon, when she was in service there.

(Image courtesy of Gordon Main).

This portrait of Mary Ann Main (nee Thurlow) was taken in 1915 when her husband William was in India with the Border Regiment.  The children are John William (Gordon Main’s father), Henry Christopher and Marjorie Isabel.

Thanks to Gordon Main for the photograph and information.

A very young Gordon Main pictured on his Grandfather William Main’s knee, with his cousin, Isabel Codling, at Penrith in 1935.  William Main was Mary Ann’s husband.

Thanks to Gordon Main for the photograph and information.

Gordon Main is the young boy on the cart, at Boulby Barns Farm.

Thanks to Gordon Main for the photo and information.

This portrait of Mary Ann is of the grandmother that Gordon Main knew, probably taken when she was about 70, c. 1945.

(Image courtesy of Gordon Main).

I think this lovely studio portrait is probably of  Bessie, an older sister of  Ada and Georgina, with Edwin, Grace and Lucy.  It would have been taken about 1915.

(Image courtesy of Mrs. J. Wilson)

 A studio portrait of the two sisters.  They married two brothers.

Georgina is on the left.  She was the youngest in the family and was born 7th February, 1891.  She  married Tom Codling (who was born 28th February 1887) on 10th December, 1910 .

Ada married Matthew Codling and they took over Boulby Barns.  Their great granddaughter, Anne Codling, tells us that Matthew died in 1913 and is buried in Great Ayton cemetery.  Her grandfather, Edwin Thurlow Codling, and his brother Billy took over Boulby Barns later on.

(Image courtesy of Mrs. J. Wilson)

This photo was taken in 1912 0r 1913 at Boulby Barns.  Ada is pictured with her three sons – little boys wore dresses then.

Billy is standing, Ada is holding Teddy(Edwin), and Francis Georgina (Cissy)is sitting in the wonderful pushchair.

(Image courtesy of Mrs. J. Wilson, Anne Codling and Mary Atkinson for the update)

I think this picture was taken at the front door of Boulby Barns, about 1927.

Georgina (nee Thurlow) has their daughter, Isabel, on her knee.  Their son, Denis seems reluctant to have his photo taken and has turned away from the camera.

(Image courtesy of Mrs. J. Wilson)

Mike Codling got in touch with us from Australia back in April.  He asked about Ada and Georgina Thurlow in a comment on their picture and then kindly sent these photos to us.  Tom and Georgina were his grandparents.  This is a picture of them with their daughter Isabel and elder son Thomas Raymond (Ray), Mike’s father.  In 1959 Ray Codling and his wife and three daughters emigrated to Australia and settled in Brisbane.  Mike was born there three years later.

Thanks to Mike Codling for the photo and information.

Thanks to Mike Codling for this photo of his father, Thomas Raymond, who grew up in Loftus and used to enjoy holidays at the family farm at Boulby.

Two ladies as named at Boulby Barns about 1920
once again thanks to Owen Rooks for the photo.

Now we have three ladies looking lovely at Whitby about 1920

Thanks go to Owen Rooks for letting us use the photo.

Once again the photo is taken about 1930 at Boulby Barns.
another photo courtesy of Owen Rooks

Dated about 1930, it has been suggested that this could be at the entrance to Easington Church.
(Thanks to Owen Rooks for the photo and Kim Lindley for the update.)

About 1930 at an unknown location on the right is Amy and possibly Bessie Anderson(nee Thurlow) who was Amy’s mother on the left.
Thanks again to Owen Rooks for the photo and Alex Wilson for the update.

1960 at Scarborough and three ladies walking in the sunshine.
Thanks again goes  to Owen Rooks for sending the photo

Mr. Bennison, John Dowey and Mr. Russell sitting on the bench outside the Institute at Boulby ’Tin City’.

(Image courtesy of Mr. Ray Conn)

Ray’s grandparents, Katie and Stephen Wilkinson Easton, standing in front of one of the cottages in 1918.

Mr. Wilkinson carved his initials, S.W.E., on a stone at the quarry and it is still there.

(Image courtesy of Mr. Ray Conn)

Ray’s parents,  Margaret and Norman Bennison Conn, at Boulby Cottages.

(Image courtesy of Mr. Ray Conn)

Grandmother Katie Easton holding a very young Ray Conn at 6 Boulby Cottages.

The cottages, known locally as Tin City, were listed in the 1911 census as Iron Cottages.  They were built to house some of the miners working at the Boulby Ironstone Mine.  The first ones were occupied by the end of 1906.  They were semi-detached bungalows built from corrugated iron sheeting on timber frames, standing on concrete foundations. 

The Boulby Mine finally closed in 1934 and over the next few years the tenants moved out and the cottages were demolished.  Ray has told us that tin sheets and timber went to Wards Farm at Roxby and were used to build a large shed.  

(Image courtesy of Mr. Ray Conn)

’Old’ Mr Newton at the rear of the ’Tin City’ cottages.

The bungalows had wash-houses at the back with coppers for heating the water.  Two of them can be seen on the right of the picture.

(Image courtesy of Mr. Ray Conn)

The children from Boulby Cottages all dressed up to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of King George V. 

Sitting in the front row, from the left, are Stan Fletcher, Lance Easton, and John and Raymond Conn.  Do you know any of the others?

The framework that can be seen on the cliff top, behind the second and third child at the left, is the tower of the aerial ropeway for Grinkle Mine.  Shale was tipped there.

(Image courtesy of Mr. Ray Conn)

Some of the residents of Boulby Cottages dressed up to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of King George V.

Back row: ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, Grace Easton (nee Simpson).

Front row: Betty Day, ??, ??, Margaret Conn (nee Easton).

Can you add any more names, please?

(Image courtesy of Mr. Ray Conn and thanks to Celia Kentfield for the update.)