Yes the railway bridge as it used to be at Carlin How, do you remember driving under it? I do and if you met a bus coming the other way there was not a lot of room.
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Not yet completed Mount Pleasant at Carlin How, come on you people what date would this be?
Now we have the houses of Mount Pleasant all inhabited.(photo courtsy of Pem Holliday)
Carlin How Workingmans club, and shop (long gone) on Brotton Road. This photo is I believe 1911 to 1912. Note Railings and Coping stones still not complete indicating job not quite finished. Hence the guess at the date as the club opened in 1911. Also note center left, Blaylock’s House / Shop and outbuildings on bottom end of Maynard Street. This was taken down in the 1960s to make the bend easier for the larger buses. Wonder who the young Lady was. (photo and description courtesy of Derick Pearson) Roger Barwick advises us: ”My Grandad, Harold Bowling, was probably the first steward at Carlin How club. He moved from the old soldiers club in Hemsworth in West Yorkshire when my Mam was 1-2 years old and she was born in 1910, he eventually became the landlord of The Maynard Arms but I am not sure when he took the pub over. Quite a number of people may remember my Uncle Harold or Tim as he was known who joined the police force and was awarded the BEM for work he did when he was stationed at Staithes.”
A different view of the square at Carlin how showing, Skinningrove Amicable Industrial Society c1920, or as we knew it PORRITT’S Shop. How clean and presentable they were then even without all the mod cons we have. (photo courtesy of Derick Pearson)
I don’t know the date of this photo but Hurd’s woodyard took over after Duckhole pit was closed. On top of the hill we can see where the ’buckets’ or aerial ropeway turned. (photo courtesy of Mike Holliday)
Here we are in deep water again, would you say this is about the 50’s ? (photo courtesy of Mike Holliday)
This is a nice photo of Carlin How Square in the early 1950s. Notice all the telephone wires going to the large chimney stack on the centre house rather than to the lamppost as today. Also note the bus stand on the left where everyone used to catch the bus Loftus / Whitby Bound. The Bus on the right is marked Workmen, it is obviously the day shift ending time from Skinningrove works. Note also what was called Cunningham’s house in the centre of the junction at that time. (photo and caption courtesy Derick Pearson) I remember when we lived at East Loftus about this time a ’works return’ for dad used to be 3d a day, what’s that in today’s money less than 2p? joanj
A phot taken a short time after the one with the horses on also named Coronation Parade 1937 c1937 shows the same scene and if one looks at the shadow of the chimney pots on the shop roofs you can be certain they were taken on the same day and within minutes of one another. When zoomed in you can see even the people looking out of the windows above are the same people. I have the date on these as 1937 as that is what I was told they were many years ago when I obtained them.
A Picture Postcard of the Men’s Reading Room in Carlin How. Provided by the Methodist Church (please correct me if I’m wrong) to try and prevent the old adage ”the devil finds work for idle hands”, these were a familiar sight in most of the mining villages. Here a man could read and improve his mind in his free time, thus improving his temperance. |
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