Moorhead Terrace Easington this time, consisting of three cottages. Corner Cottage, sold for £460 and wow it had electric light. The next cottage also had electric light, but water was still obtained from the fountain across the road. The last on the terrace was the police house, electric light but no running water.
Thanks go to Mrs Waton for loaning us this catalogue.

I don’t think it’s still standing but in 1946 it was for sale, all 32 acres of it with the house standing by the side of the swift running mill stream and ajooining a series of waterfalls, at the end of the house is the old water wheel. This had it’s own water supply piped from a spring situated on high ground, another property on a Ladyday tenancy of £38 per annum. Today a weir and mill race running towards the mill can still be easily identified, but the actual location of mill is little more that a few foundations now.

Thanks go to Mrs Waton for sharing the catalogue with us.

Easington End Farm 6 acres 0 roods 4 poles with a double fronted house all let for £45 on a Lady Day (25th March) tennancy.
Thanks again to Mrs Waton for sharing the catalogue.

Lambert Terrace in Easington more lots from the sale catalogue loaned by Mrs Waton.5 lots in all including a village store the rent £14-18s-8d per year. Three cottages bringing in £48-16s per year and the village post office rent £18-4s per year. A grand total of just over £81, not bad for 1946.

This was lot 23 in the Grinkle Park sale catalogue, not the Tiger Inn we know today but the earlier one that stood on Moorhead Terrace. A well as the living quarters the catalogue stated that there was a Public Bar and a Bar Parlour with Tiled Fireplace (wow). With outside ladies and gents E.C.
sale catalogue loaned to us by Mrs Waton.

Twizziegill Farm 227 acres 0 roods 30 poles the largest farm on the estate. Another property let on Ladyday tennancy of £163 per annum, it was wihdrawn from the sale later selling privately for £4,700.
Thanks again to Mrs Waton for sharing the catalogue with us.

Attractive detached cottage the catalogue tells us, with 2 bedrooms, sitting room, kitchen with sink and range, a garden that extended to about 18 poles this could have been yours for £13 per annum rent.
Thanks go again to Mrs Waton for the loan of the sale catalogue.

Garden Cottage which still stands  in Easington, opposite the post office. Let fot £25 per annum, it had electric ligh;, although the water was obtained from a roadside tap. Another lot from Mrs Waton’s sale catalogue

Easington Hall Farm, 207 acres it stated in the catalogue that this was a ”Lady Day tenancy’ of £217 per annum. Lady Day being the 25th March.

Thanks again go to Mrs Waton for the loan of this very intersting catalogue. and Bob Doe for advice regarding Lady Day.

Snipe House, described in the catalogue loaned to us by Mrs Waton, as being built of ’mellowed stone’ with slate roof.

 Accomodation:- 3 bedrooms and bathroom, sitting room, living room with range having a boiler at the back for heating the hot water. Gun room and pantry with sink, E.C. if you don’t know what an E.C. is then ask an older member of the family.

Is Snipe House still standing?

Home Farm House or Grinkle Lodge again for sale in 1946 bringing the princely sum of £2,700

 (Mrs Waton is thanked for the loan of the sale catalogue)

Once again taken from the sale catalogue loaned to us by Mrs Waton, the lake was included with the sale of Grinkle Park.

A rather nice view of the hotel as you go up the driveway.

 (photo from the sale catalogue courtesy of Mrs Waton)

Too late to buy I’m afraid as this sale was in 1946. I wonder how much was paid for it? (Sale catalogue courtesy of Mrs Waton)

Easington church again, all dressed up ready for the Easter service.
(Postcard courtesy of Mrs Waton.)

A lovely photo of Mrs Waton’s showing a very early Easington, the girls look very smart in their aprons.

The sanctuary in Easington church .
(Postcard courtesy of Mrs Waton)

Once again Easington church, thanks go again to Mrs Waton for the loan of the postcard. From an Air photo by Jack Braithwaite (Leeds) entitles ”Parish Church Easington (Loftus)”.

Thanks to Tina for this card showing the interior of Easington Church.  The card was posted in 1908.

About a mile long this tunnel I was told and yes we used to go and play in it when the trains were running and scare ourselves silly.

We cannot dispute where this Skilbeck postcard was taken,  as once again it is Easington but no people are about this time, no estate on the right hand side.    Note the bread van making his deliveries – but to whose shop? Possibly the Co-op?

It looks as though the population of Easington has come out to have their photo taken, the church tower clear in the background.

Difficult to say which Company owned this bus, but if it was the Loftus Company, then they eventually went bust and their assets were obtained by Mr Keith Watson at Saltburn.  When his Bus enterprise failed they were all bought up by what went on to become The Saltburn Motor Services being taken over in  August 1974 by Cleveland Transit. This company in turn becoming part of the Stagecoach group which no longer serves East Cleveland. How the wheels turn.

Thanks to Chris Hall for his update.

A postcard of a sketch/painting showing the original church at Easington, dated 1834.  It is a view of the original church which opened 10th May, 1772, the Rector at the time being William Harker, M.A.

The view is sketched from the east (approaching the village from Staithes) on Whitby Road.

(originally published by W. Richardson & Sons, Loftus)

Thanks to Beryl Morris for this lovely colour-tinted view of Easington church that was posted in 1907.

Sir Charles was seen as a great benefactor both here (he lived locally at Grinkle Hall, Grinkle Park – now a hotel) and at Jesmond, near Newcastle. His funeral on March the 7th, 1907 filled the little church at Easington, which he had erected as a memorial for his wife.

The image was a half-tone (an image made up of numerous little dots) and the scan has caused patterning, unfortunately. Has anyone got a better image?

A fine view of this fine church.

An early photograph of two women and their children near the spring at Easington.

Now we can safely say that we have an image of Easington School!  This looks like a classic Poor Law School, boys one side and girls the other.
Ray says ”The one attached has come from Joe Fenby, he has lived in the now converted School for many years and has just celebrated his 90th Birthday, he was told that the Girl in the picture was his Mother but he cannot say for certain”.
(image courtesy of Raymond Brown)

A view of the entrance to Grinkle Hall that was posted in 1904.  The shapes at either side in the foreground look like gravestones.  Are they in the pet cemetery amongst the trees, near the hall? 

Image courtesy of Beryl Morris.

A beautiful building once owned by the Palmer family, now owned by a brewery and serves as a hotel, the pets graveyard is a place children love to visit to see where the dogs, ducks and other pets were buried.

(This view of Grinkle Park, probably during the times before it became the sporting hotel it is now, shows the glazed sun lounge to good effect. – John G)

It says ’Mally Harbutts Tree’ on the card, but now known to be an incorrect spelling.  Molly Harbutt, a Scots lady, was the witch of the woods who lived in this tree beside the bridge over Greenhowe Beck, near Scaling Mill. She was an early equivalent of a homeopathist, preparing potions and reading fortunes. According to legend she was able to change her shape to a large brown hare, finally being shot by a hunter and subsequently found dying in human form in the branches of this tree. The tree is marked on maps dating from 1856! Hence all sign of the tree are now long gone.

Thanks to Cody McKay for the update.

But we would still like to know who or why is the man in the tree.

Well I have been informed that it is Twizziegill culvert and the digging of the railway and this has now been confirmed by David Richardson.
(photo courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum and thanks to David for the confirmation)