East Cleveland Image Archive

Well the photo is dated and tells us what is happening so there is no more for me to write.
(photo courtesy of Mike Holliday, but originally from a CD produced by Derick Pearson.)

Now correct me if I am wrong but this is locally known as the ’top house’ yes?  Nice to see a tinted photo, loaned by Mike Holliday

This is an image Derick Pearson reproduced on a CD rom for an exhibition in 1983. The little Pony and trap I was told belonged to Peter Dormans family from Stanghow Hall. Peter’s Great Grandfather was Isaac Scarth who built Stanghopw Hall in 1776.

This Blacksmiths shop replaced an earlier one (c1800)which used to be under the Chesnut Tree at the entrance to the old easter field path, or for those who don’t remember the easter Field, Moorsholom wood path next to Stanghow Hall. This later one was there before the turn of the century and My Father was playing there in 1929 and got his thumb trapped in a large Grindstone which can be seen in the shot behind the bicycle on the right. A bungalow is now on the site of this old Blacksmiths shop.
When the photo is zoomed in one can see that the large board to the left of the doorway is advertising a Dwellinghouse for rent.

Bill Danby has supplied us with the following information about this image:
Tom Curnow, a Lingdaler and later a Skeltoner included this photograph in his book, “Skelton and its History”, which is available in local libraries. He describes working the bellows there as a lad.

2. Derick Pearson mentions the Scarths at Stanghow House.
The family were still there in 1917. Their son, also called Isaac, was killed, age 23, at Arras while serving as a Lieutenant with the local 1/4th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment, on the 23rd April. The circumstances of the day and more details about him are described on my webpage here.

(image initially supplied by Mike Holliday, but particular thanks to Bill Danby and Derick Pearson for the above information.)

The High Street at Lingdale dated 1913.

(photo courtesy of Mike Holliday)