Doris Ness (left) and Iris Knight (right) give out the Crown pieces to May Cuthbert (left), Lily Marshal (Centre) & Ivy Wilkinson (right)
(image courtesy of Raymond Brown)
(image courtesy of Raymond Brown)
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The Ladies who made all the arrangements for the the street party for Queen St., Grosvenor Terrace & Irene St. to celebrate the Marriage of Charles & Di on the 29th July 1981. and a grand job they did too.
They are L to R Dot Limon, Irene Greensmith, Jean Brown, Jean Young, Dorothy Ashwell, Doris Webster, Josie Miller Lynn Bint, Audrey Metcalfe, Doris Ness, Iris Knight, Janet Laity & Jill Anthill. (image courtesy of Raymond Brown)
Ray says “I scanned this Polaroid picture of the Dinner Ladies at Carlin How primary School (long before it was called Whitecliff) – It was taken circa 1967, well before meals were cooked on the premises, in them days as you may remember all School meals were cooked at the central kitchens in Loftus.
they are Left to Right – Audrey Sweeney, Marion Sayers, Kath Lancaster, Annie Dyer, Jean Cook and Rose Partlett”. (Saves me having to write the byeline! – rodders) (image courtesy of Raymond Brown)
A picture taken without the benefit of flash and against the internal lighting, it still shows the Gas Turbine-driven alternator and in the background those beautiful Gas Motors that used to thud out night and day! This was a most beautiful building inside and although the picture doesn’t show it very well, the whole of the back wall was covered in 1900’s instrumentation. The floor was red earthenware tiles and there was lots of Victorian/Edwardian woodwork. I used to collect water samples from the feeds that were just as you came into the building, behind the photographer (who is on the balcony), walk along the tiled floor, past these monsters and out through the door within a door within the huge doors to sample the water in the brick outside reservoir tanks every morning for about six or seven months – it was a time capsule!
Here is a picture that is familiar to me, a train of slag wagons tipping their loads at the Tarmac Roadstone Plant on Skinningrove Iron and Steel Works. One wagon is already being tipped while the others wait their turn. Reg Dunning’s father worked the Bucyrus crane that fed the crusher plant that produced roadstone, that was transported in Tarmac Roadstone lorries, which my father-in-law used to service and maintain.
This is Elizabeth (Betty) Ferrer in what I think will be the new labs at Skinningrove Iron and Steel Works, after they moved out of the labs under the water tower on the cliff edge. I first met Betty in 1963 when I joined Skinningrove Iron and Steel Works as a Junior Chemist and I think I joined the rest of the Junior Chemists in having a crush on her! I don’t think I ever saw her in the lab as such, she had her own little section next door to Mr. E F (Effie) Brown’s office, where I believe she performed water analysis on Oil samples – my memory is very hazy on that aspect of lab life, so please correct me Betty. (I have to say it’s lovely to see you again Betty! – rodders) (image courtesy of Elizabeth Ferrer)
This is the wedding of Edward Isaac Money (Ted) and Caroline Smith (Carrie). Far left is Charles Powell Smith the bride’s brother, Nan Page friend of the bride, Ted and Carrie, Mary Smith niece of the bride and Jonathan Smith (Jonty) brother of the bride and father of Mary. The wedding took place at St. Helen’s Church Carlin How on the 11th November 1932, the couple then lived at Skinningrove before moving to East Loftus after being bombed out of their house in Skinningrove during in the second world war.
A pair of Class 20s, led by 20070, cross the new bridge at Carlin How with a train of loaded Potash Hoppers. Both locos are equipped with multiple working connections, the second man being the guard. Both locos in ”Small Arrow” livery, and it looks like the Thornaby Kingfisher on the side (thanks for the verification Russ – rodders).
This is the cutting to go with the previous image. As usual the Gazette writer has forgotten that without the Steel Works ”scar” there would be no villages, just a group of farms and outbuildings, and the coastal outline would have changed dramatically due to coastal erosion (Skinningrove used to tip slag over the cliff edge at Cattersty) and he wouldn’t be talking about the new Finishing Department anyway! (image courtesy of Colin Hart) (cutting copyright Evening Gazette)
This is an aerial view of Skinningrove works showing the new Finishing Departments nearing completion. (image courtesy of Colin Hart) (image copyright Evening Gazette) |
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