East Cleveland Image Archive

Looking over to Upton Cottages and Street house Farm, took me a while to realise where it was. Thanks again to Eric Johnson for the loan of the photo.

Joe Ward  brought us this set of snaps that were taken in the winter of 1962/3.  He was working for the Council as a painter and decorator but the weather was so bad there was nothing else to do and they were set on snow-clearing.  In this picture Joe and casual labourers are digging out the lane to North Terace. We have a comment from Dorothy Marsay: ”the gentleman at the back right of the photo could be Frank Dale and it could be Doreen Cooke at the front.” 

Thanks to Ray Tough for that update.

This is Charlie Bibby standing on the snow drifts beside Hummersea Lane.

Percy Simpson was driving the tractor, clearing the snow on the lane above Spring House Farm.  I think that it’s Micklow Cottages and Street Houses that can be seen in the background.  When were Micklow Cottages demolished?

Thanks to Joe Ward for this set of photos and information.

Micklow Cottages at the triangle junction of Micklow Lane and the the road to Street Houses from Skiningrove. Demolished in the 1980s and originally known as Micklehow Cottages they were one of the four collections of cottages originally developed for the alum workers of Hummersea and Boulby.

(Thanks to Eric Johnson for this image).

Margaret Bowden(nee Willis) and her son, Ted, are on the left.  Margaret was a midwife.   Mary Stainthorpe Hogan (nee Cooke) is in the doorway with her nephew, Peter Kitchener. 

The photo was taken at Micklow Cottages about 1951.

(Image courtesy of Keith Bowers)

Heavy snow on Micklow Lane, featuring Scott and Guy Breckon with friend (see note below), in the late 1980’s. Pictured opposite the site of old windmill (in Joe Wilkinson’s field)

What’s the boy in the bottom right corner playing at?

(Image and information courtesy of Mrs. Breckon)

Built in 1872 the Primitive Methodist Chapel at Street Houses, the former chapel now forms part of the farm buildings of Street Houses Farm. The stables beside the chapel experienced the Zepplin raid of 1916. Considerable burning took place, which is still evident in the rafters of the stables. The chapel (now in the process of repair by Tony Garbutt) survived to this day, despite being ”modified” for use as a barn by previous farm owners.

The children had must have been told the photographer was coming and are eagerly waiting for their photo to be taken. Street houses now seems to have changed it’s name to Upton Cottages and what I knew as Upton Cottages, the few houses that stood on a slight angle at the junction of Micklow lane and the cliff road, have been renamed Micklow cottages. Has anyone else noticed this?

Street Houses, Primitive Methodist Chapel AD 1872. this chapel and thePrimitive Methodist Chapel at Arlington Street Loftus AD 1870. are unusual they are both aligned north/south instead of east/west as other christian churches are. is this peculier to Primitive Methodists (or a faulty compass). I was baptised at Arlington Street and I don’t know the answer.

Thanks for all that information Eric

Iain Warnes was born at Upton and christened in this chapel in 1939, his grandfather Walter Warnes, had a small farm at Upton. His Great Uncle Aaron Rolling had a smallholding at Hummersea next to Tommy Hart.

Supplementary information supplied by descendants of Tommy Hart.