Errington Woods, Smallpox Hospital
The large number of mature plum trees in the picnic area always seemed a little out of place to me. The car park appears to have been a smallpox hospital.
I can find no pictures or references to it, other than a few mentions of a smallpox epidemic in Teesside in the late 1890s
January 4th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
ref can be found in the local history book “New Marske Looking Back” a local history by Ena Holloway and Alan Hughes (Vicar) published 1982 (pag 28)
“a small sanitorium was built at New Marske. It has since been demolished and the site turned into a picnic area at the top of Sandy Lane on the corner of Errington Woods. It was a small corrugated iron structure with a resident caretaker who created a beautiful flower and vegetable garden around the hospital. Water was drawn up to the building by a wind pump - this was dismantled a few years ago”