Wreck of SS Lucy

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I believe these boilers between Kettleness and Sandsend are the remains of the SS Lucy, corrections welcome if you know otherwise.

Photo by John Dale

Built as the MAGDEBURG for Leith, Hull & Hamburg Steam Packet Co. in 1910

Photo by John Dale

Renamed Lucy in 1929 and ran aground December 1930 travelling from Grangemouth to Bordeaux. All eighteen crew rescued by Whitby lifeboat.

Carlin How War Memorial

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CARLIN HOW
WAR MEMORIAL
1914 – 1918
TO THE GLORIOUS DEAD
THE PATH OF DUTY WAS THE WAY TO GLORY

Carlin How War Memorial
Carlin How War Memorial
Carin How War Memorial

2nd Lt G Mason
Sergt. F Hutton
Sergt. J Williams
Corp. W Cherry
Corp. J W Stephenson
Corp. A Teasdale
Corp J Thomas
L. Corp. A Cudd
L. Corp. J Elliott
L. Corp. J H Wisbey
L. Corp. T Wood
Gunner J H Medcalf
Driver D E Robinson
Private J Burnett
Private H Bury
Private J Clarke
Private F T Crossman
Private J H Cryer
Private W Defty
Private R G Elliott
Private P Flynn
Corp. J J Clough

Carlin How War Memorial

Private A E Glover
Private T A Goldby
Private G Hicks
Private L C Hodgson
Private J Jefferson
Private W Kemp
Private W Long
Private E Loughran
Private G R Mainforth
Private G G Price
Private J Rafferty
Private J Richardson
Private J Shaw
Private J H Shepherd
Private P Walker
Private J Ward
Private E Welham
Private J Welham
Private J Wickham
Private E Wood
Private J Jose

Carlin How War Memorial

1939 – 1945

J A Auckland
F Roper
A W Clayton
D W Stewart
F Faye
R Winspear
R Locke
J W Brackley
J R Appleton
H Cocks
A F Brackley
E Welham
A E Harrison
L Richardson
W Page
F Miller
H Miller

Lingdale Mine Horses Mosaic

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Large horses such as Shires and Cleveland Bays were still in use across Cleveland for well over 100 years, into the late 1950s. Robin, Bishop and Duke were the last at Lingdale and feature in this photo as well as the mosaic.

Albert Dobson of Carney Street, Boosbeck; Gus Coote and Clarence ‘Clarry’ Ditchburn of Moorsholm leading out the mine horses on August 28th 1959 – Alison Small, Lingdale History

The mosaic was the idea of Lingdale Liftoff, funded by Coast and Country and created by Glynis Johnson and the children of Lingdale Primary in 2013 (according to the tiles around the outside)

Unfortunately the background is slightly damaged at the top left, but hopefully it can be repaired before before spreading to the main subject.

Lingdale Mine Horse Mosaic
Lingdale Mine Horses

Lingdale Trappy Boy

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Lockdown continues to make adding to the site more tricky, but I was able to capture these images while out at work. He is located inside the grounds Lingdale Primary School, so should not be visited without permission.

Lingdale Mine Trappy Lad
Trappy Boy

A trappy boy/lad was a child as young as 12, who worked in the ironstone mines opening and closing the air ventilation doors as horses and mine tub passed.

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A real trappy lad

The sculpture was the idea of the Lingdale Lift-off group and looks to the work of J. Godbold of Egton, who also made the ironstone statues at Boosbeck and Eston. He was originally intended to mark a footpath to Kilton Mine, hence pointing his finger.

Lingdale Mine Trappy Lad

Stockton – Billingham Boundary Marker. Mill Lane Wolviston

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Many thanks to Peter Edwards for submitting this photo and location of historic boundary marker visible on Mill Lane between Wolviston and Billingham.

It marks the boundary between Stockton Rural District (1894-1974) and Billingham Urban District (1923 – 1968) The first OS mapping to include this boundary is dated 1939.

1939 6” map showing the boundary. The marker is in the western hedge of Mill Lane
Overlayed onto modern aerial mapping.

Ord and Maddison Plough, Ings Farm, Redcar

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This plough was erected around August 2020, having been sourced from a farm in Moorsholm.

Ord and Maddison Plough, Ings Farm

The plough carries the inscription Ord and Maddison, R.H. Ridging No.4

Ord and Maddison Plough, Ings Farm

Ord and Maddison were based in Darlington but also had interests in limestone quarries in Weardale, the company existed from the 1850s until the 1950s

Ings Farm stood not far from the position of the plough, near the shops on what is now Warwick Road / Castle Road. The low garden walls on this estate are said to be constructed with stone from the farm

Victorian Postbox in Wilton

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This wall-box in Wilton village has been in use for at least 120 years as it carries a “VR” Royal Cypher

Wilton Post Box

VR – Queen Victoria (1853-1901)

ER VII – Edward VII (1901-1910)

GR – George V (1910-1936)

ER VIII – Edward VIII (20 January 1936 – 11 December 1936)

GR VI – George VI (1936-1952)

ER II – Elizabeth II 1952-present)

It was made by W.T. Allen & Co, who stated production in 1886, so it can only date from 1886-1901

Wilton Post Box

Kirkleatham and Redcar Traction Engine

BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT
No. 2350
AVELING & PORTER
ENGINEERS
ROCHESTER
KENT
ENGLAND 1888

This plate belonged to 10 ton single cylinder road roller built in 1888 which was dispatched new to Kirkleatham Urban District Council and later owned by Redcar Urban District Council.

This company advert from the same year of 1888 may give an idea of what it looked like.

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1888 advert.

The only local photo I know which features a traction engine is this one from road laying at Lazenby, so there’s a very slim chance it could be the same engine.

At some point later in its life it was sent to Bomford & Evershed who were an agricultural machinery manufacturer and contractor based in Warwickshire, they formed in 1904 so it must be after than date, it was scrapped in the late 1930s

Many thanks to Stewart Ramsdale for highlighting this item when it recently surfaced at an auction house in Evesham, Worcestershire

The Redcar Sufferers – Seven Fisherman Lost – Wednesday 22nd December 1824

Much has been written over the years about deaths and rescue on the sea at Redcar, but this one from 1824 seems to have been forgotten perhaps, despite seven men being killed in one day and a major public appeal for their families. With the deaths being in 1824 before the completion of St Peters in Redcar, they were buried in St Germains at Marske rather than Redcar.

Those killed were George Robinson and his two sons Christopher and Thomas Robinson. Thomas Hall and his two sons George and Richard Hall. William Guy (but not the same one who was killed in a rescue on 25 December 1836, nearly 12 years to the day later)

Yorkshire Gazette – Saturday 01 January 1825
Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser – Tuesday 04 January 1825.
Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser – Tuesday 04 January 1825.
George ROBINSON and his 2 sons Christopher and Thomas
George ROBINSON and his 2 sons Christopher and Thomas died 22 Dec 1824 aged 57, 24, and 17, his wife Ruth died 10 Jan 1840 aged 73, their daughter Ruth aged 3.
Burial records from 1824, three of the men listed as drowned out of fishing cobles.
Donations by mid February

£1000 in 1824 is roughly the equivalent of £100,000 today so the public appeal had a high profile with donations from various Earls and Knights