These knitted books appeared by the library way back in October 2011, long before the bigger Olympic or Diamond Jubilee pieces. They are still there as of 2013.
At the time no-one really knew what to make of it and the term ‘yarnbombing’ was never mentioned in the press report.
This new mosaic depicting Saltburns smuggling heritage was created by Helen Gaunt and Derek Mosey (who created the five mosaics at the station) with help from Huntcliff School students, Turning the Corner (TTC), Saltburn Foreshore Committee and UK Steel Enterprise.
Samuel Sadler (1842–29 September 1911) was an industrialist mainly concerned with the chemical industry, he served on Middlesbrough Council from 1873 to 1911 and was mayor on three occasions 1877, 1896 and 1910. Sadler was the first Conservative Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough from 1900 – 1906.
Sadler was known locally as ‘the Colonel’ due to him being the Honorary Colonel of the Volunteer Battalions of the Durham Light Infantry.
This monument by Edouard Lanteri was erected by public subscription and unveiled on 21st June 1915
This ‘NER’ stone is in the kerb outside Saltburn Railway station.
The station was originally opened in 1861 by the ‘Stockton and Darlington Railway’ which became part of the ‘North Eastern Railway’ in 1863 but it could date from then until 1923 when the ‘North Eastern Railway’ became the ‘London and North Eastern Railway’
The Geoff Waterfield Memorial Sculpture was unveiled on 11th February 2013 outside SSI UK Steel House as a tribute to the union official who headed the “Save Our Steel” campaign to bring iron and steel making back to Teesside. Geoff having died suddenly before the plant restarted.
The sculptor Lewis Robinson used the last slab to be manufactured by Tata Steel in 2010 and the first to be manufactured by SSI UK in 2012.
A temporary exhibition in Steel House showed the manufacture of the sculpture.
Also a list of those who contributed.
Ordnance Survey Benchmarks exist all over the country, but the network is no longer maintained due to modern technology like GPS, so slowly they are getting lost and removed.
This form is a called a ‘Flush Bracket’ and 0294 is recorded as exactly 46.7167m above sea level.
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
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.
I’m a little behind with this as the knitted baubles appeared in December, but still in place as of February 2013
There was also a knitted lady with a turkey below the Christmas tree, but I missed that.
This piece of ‘graffiti’ appeared near the location of the Olympic Yarnbombing on the pier, although it later had a protective plastic cover installed to protect it (a touch ironic don’t you think)
It is the work of Karl Striker although as of early 2013 the protective plastic has gone and it looked like the wall may be about to be repainted, as the Iron Ammonites were also down.
