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Got the rare opportunity to see inside this normally locked building as part of Heritage Open Days.
The mortuary was built in 1881, bodies lost at sea tended to arrive here due to prevailing currents and it was still in use in the 1960s
There was the opportunity to try out the slab, but I declined.
My father worked at Saltburn Salerooms. As a child I used to spend a lot of time on the Pier with the mortuary keeper ( a Mr Barber ). He told me many tales about recovering bodies around Hunt Cliff. This inspired me to go on to work in a mortuary. I ended up as Superintendent to the Royal Coroner at Southwark ( London ), and spent 13 happy years working alongside the Scotland Yard Murder Squad. All thanks to Saltburn Mortuary.
I lived in Teesside and went to Fyling Hall School.
Regards
Peter Everett