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Known to most as the Mars Inn this house was owned by Mr Eaton of Loftus Brick Works, where bricks were made from about 1830 to 1870. Bryan Richardson tells us: ”The original name of this house was Marsingill House. I researched this around 1980 when I was landlord of the Mars Inn and the sign was changed from Mars the Roman god to Mars the planet and people argued as to which it should be. Neither as it turned out.” Thanks to Bryan for that update.
Yes this is the way it used to look not at all like the building we see today, but when the silent movies were something new this is where people went to see them. There were live acts too between the movies, I remember my mother telling me of the ’scratching shed’ a place where they waited to get into the Empire, makes the mind boggle as to what the scratching shed was, anybody out there enlighten me? Please
This is the first postcard that I’ve seen of Cliff Crescent. I remember when it was counter service in the Co-op, but not as far back as this when the door was on the corner.
Do you remember Tommy Fletcher’s garage at Bank Top and his buses?
A view of the landslip 27th September 1927, at Bank Top, Loftus (viewed from Liverton Mines), which unceremoniously dumped this building into ’The Narrows’ and caused the premature demise of others! This occurred long before the more recent and memorable events, which forced road closures and diverted traffic. Any further views of this event would be welcomed. The underlying strata is boulder-clay, which holds a phenomenal amount of water – before collapsing along shear-planes, like this!
A view of the damaged house at Bank Top, Loftus after the 1927 Landslip. The house was subsequently declared unsafe and demolished
The 1927 landslip at the top of Loftus bank destroyed Magor’s house and shop. They moved over the road and had a wooden shop built in the gap between Valley Avenue and the two semi-detached houses. Richard Magor who owned the original shop died in 1958 at 1 Queen’s Road Loftus, having previously lived in Carlin How. David Archer tells us: “Richard Magor who owned the shop that was destroyed by the landslide was my Great Grandfather who died while living at No. 1 Queens Road Loftus in 1958 he had previously lived in Carlin How.” Barbara McBurney tells us: “The shop Jack Roberts owned at 25 New Company Row in Skinningrove, was where I lived when I was born, it was called Jeffersons, we moved to Loftus when my brother was born as there were only two bedrooms in the shop but kept the shop for a number of more years, my mother and father, John and Alwynne Jefferson (nee Smith) commuting to Skinningrove each day to work in the Shop. Malcolm and Sheila Hart from Skinningrove moved in when we sold the shop and I believe Jack Roberts took over after the Hart’s left.” Thanks to John Roberts for the photo and information, also to David Archer for the updates on Richard Magor and Barbara McBurney for updates on the Skinningrove shop.
The shop and house in 1984. It changed hands again, once or twice, over the years and the shop has now gone. There’s a garden in its place. Thanks to John Roberts for the photo. |
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