Loftus Town Hall

We’re going to attempt to revive a little Loftus publication – “Loftus Town Trail” – in time we’d like to Geomap this and produce a Geotrail (for you intrepid GPS Explorers), but for now we’ll simply translate the pamphlet into web pages using some of the old photos from the Archive.

We’d like to thank the people who participated in and produced the original version and acknowledge their copyright and intellectual property rights: they are Malcolm Chase (whose words we’ll be using), Mark Bennett, Louise Bland, Sarah Easton, David Johnson, Kathleen Allanson and Russell Leet – for the illustrations that gave us the inspiration.  Thanks also to Tim Lewis for his typography in the original, The Loftus Map Project and Loftus Employment and Training Group Ltd. for the original production.

Loftus is one of the most historic communities in East Cleveland.  It is recorded in the Domesday Book (1086), but on the highest ground of the parish, near the cliffs on the coast and upland on the moors, are the remains of prehistoric communities dating back to the late Stone Age, more than 5000 years ago!  Later leaflets will cover the farther reaches of the district; this trail concentrates on the town of Loftus itself, an interesting mixture of the 18th and 19th centuries.  The trail is in three linked stages, each ending in the Market Place and each taking about 25 minutes.  While you’re walking the trail, take your digital camera/phone with you and snap each of the points of interest outlined in the trail story, then pop a copy into the library and we’ll do a then and now post on them.