Show on map George Duck (and his descendants) ran the butchers in Grosmont from 1820, the date being engraved into the front of this shop.
It no longer serves as a butcher but the sign has been recently repainted as its tatty on the Google Street View images.
Show on map This sign is towards the rear of the current Saltburn fire station on Leven Street.
I don’t know how long the company ran, but there is a William Biscomb operating as a joiner in Bulmer’s Directory of 1890 but not at this location.
Show on map These old shop signs have been revealed by recent work on 17 Milton Street.
“Fruiterer &” above the left window.
“Ironmongers” above the right window.
A family member recalls that the hardware store was called run by a family called Fletcher.
Show on map Immediately next to yesterdays ‘Sparrow’ plaque is one dated many years later in 1947.
It appears to shows Poseidon and a mermaid but I don’t know its story.
Show on map This is one that’s intrigued me since my childhood, cemented to the wall of a house in Staithes.
This covert was planted in memory of Spadger.
1st Baron Sparrow
The hero of a hundred fights
Died March 1901
‘Spadger’ is a slang term for a sparrow.
Another smaller stone carries the name ‘Fred’
Show on map This sign relates to the opening times of the pub during the livestock mart, as far as I can tell a pub called the Red Lion existed here until around 1970.
As far as I can make out it says :-
These premises are permitted to be open 11am to 10pm on Tuesdays for the convenience of those attending the mart.
Show on map This plaque was erected by the residents of Yarm in 1925 on the 100th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
It lists the residents of Yarm involved. Thomas Meynell (Chairman), Benjamin Flounders,(a quaker industrialist) Jeremiah Cairns (listed as Meynells steward and agent), Richard Miles (a quaker lead agent) and Thomas Miles.
A engraving of ‘Locomotion No.1’ is at the top.
Show on map This old sign is in remarkably good condition on the pale Pease bricks.
The shop below is now a Boots, suggesting it got bought out into a chain at some point.
The journals of David Taylor have him working as an errand boy there in 1906.
Middleton Taylor’s manufacturing Chemists and Pharmacists of Station Street, Saltburn, that was my place of employment. The shop is still a chemists, now owned by Mr Langman
Show on map This mosaic doorway stands outside what is now Keith Sports, but was once the Saltburn grocer, wine and spirit merchant of W. Melliship.
Melliships is listed on Milton Street in the 1890 Bulmers directory and its listed on the 1899 Tetley advert below
Harry Gallagher tracked down this entry from the London Gazette which suggests they went bankrupt around 1917.
Show on map This ceramic tile sign is outside W Hamond, which was established in 1860.
Although I’m not sure why its called ‘W Hamond’ when their own website states it was James Storr who actually opened the shop.