This postbox was painted gold after Kat Copeland won gold in the women’s double sculls alongside Sophie Hosking.
Gold Olympic Postbox, Ingleby Barwick
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Show on map Monthly Archives: October 2012
Show on map Redcar ‘Wall’ Mystery
Show on map This heavily eroded stone sign is located in the car park of Farmfoods, just outside Redcar Station.
I would love to hear any suggestions as to what it says, I can’t make out much more than ‘Wall’ at the bottom.
Vansittart Terrace, Redcar
Show on map This sign for Vansittart Terrace sits on what is now Coatham Road
Coatham Road came into existance around 1935 when Portland, Victoria, Cleveland, Bentinck, Vansittart and Theresa Terraces were combined.
Henry Vansittart (10 July 1784 – 22 April 1848) married Teresa Newcomen the widow of Sir Charles Turner and gained Turner’s Kirkleatham estate.
Spigot Mortar Emplacement, Loftus
Show on map This metal pin would have been the mounting point for a Blacker Bombard 29mm Anti-Tank Mortar
This firing position on Loftus has an excellent view of the railway station.
Grangetown Millenium Green and Sundial
Show on map Despite regularly driving past I had failed to notice this in the last 12 years until I finally spotted this stone circle in a park.
On closer investigation the slate monoliths mark the hours on a sundial.
You stand on the appropriate footsteps for the time of year and then your shadow is cast towards the time.
Sadly despite only being just over 10 years old the area was covered in broken glass and the paths are getting overgrown.
There also some small mosaics of local scenes on the dial.
Forum Cinema – Normanby
Show on map The Forum cinema dates in 1939 and closed in 1965 when the site was taken over by Walter Bakers furniture store which closed recently, although it has now re-opened as Beevers.
A broken sign for the Forum can still be seen on top of the building
Inside the building can easily be identified as a cinema with a foyer and banked seating areas, this plan is displayed at the back of Beevers showroom.
A short video by the Normanby Local History Group is included below
1884 Bible Christian Church, Eston
Show on map The ‘Bible Christians’ were a Methodist denomination formed in 1815 and centered on Devon and Cornwall.
I think there’s a very strong possibility that miners from that area migrated to Cleveland to work in the mines and brought this specific brand of religion with them, as emigrants from Devon and Cornwall also took the religion to America and Canada.
The church name ceased to exist in 1907 when they merged to become the United Methodist Church which itself merged in 1932 to become the Methodist Church of Great Britain.
Middlesbrough Co-operative Society – Ghostsign
Show on map These old signs have recently been uncovered while this shop on Marton Road is being refitted
I don’t know when the Middlesbrough Co-operative Society ceased to exist, but suspect it was some time in the early 1970s. I also have no specific details on when this branch was open other than a recollection elsewhere of one window being a butchers in the 1950’s
As kindly pointed out to me in the comments, there are also some remaining signs for the dairy on the gateposts of the nearby flats.
Update : The new shop is now complete and the signs are hopefully just hidden again rather than destroyed.
Bolckows Desk
Show on map In the exhibition area of the recently restored Cargo Fleet Iron Company offices you can currently see Bolckows drawing desk
I believe the exhibition runs until 19/10/2012, so after that it will probably be gone.
Ayresome Quaker Burial Ground
Show on map This area of Linthorpe Cemetery is entiely populated with the identical simple gravestones of Quakers.
It pre-dates the rest of cemetery hugely as it was established in 1660, all the original stone were removed in 1717 as was the custom of the time for Quakers. Between 1745 and 1855 other sites were used before burial resumed here with the simple gravestones up until the present day.
The current main Linthorpe graveyard surrounding this one was not established until 1869.