Feb

5

2010

SEA Coaling

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Beach

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A tide with numerous amounts of sea coal, always a ready winter fuel for residents during the cold winter months. A popular ‘occupation’ in its day, and many a man, woman, and child could be seen as the tide went out begin to collect the sea coal from the beach. Free to anyone who collected...

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Feb

5

2010

REDCAR – Rugby Club

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Education, Classes, Clubs & Organisations

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The Redcar Rugby Club was formerly situated on Redcar Racecourse and started to thrive following the Second World War in 1947. It consisted of a wooden hut, and rugby ground The changing facilities left a lot to be desired. Change was around the corner when land was bought in 1959 at the now present...

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Feb

5

2010

CEMETERY – Redcar Lane

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Cemetery

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Accreditation Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 09/07/1869 Redcar Cemetery Full 1869      It was acknowledged by Redcar Board the necessity for providing a cemetery for Redcar was discussed. The need for one is very pressing, as the churchyard will not contain above more than 200 more bodies,...

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Feb

5

2010

BUILDING – South Gare, Powder Jetty.

dean

Buildings

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Location South Gare Paddy’s Hole. We have decided to leave this information on the board as it was written. “I have made extensive enquiries with contacts re. powder jetty and have come up trumps. Bill got in touch with Lennie Oliver who is in his 80’s and used to work on the part of...

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Feb

5

2010

REDCAR – Post Offices The Beginning

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Redcar

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1820  Redcar Post Office The Beginning The first post office recorded in Redcar was in the year 1820. It was a timber framed cruck building located at numbers 38-40 High Street. The post office then had a good service with the post being collected every day (during the bathing season – Summer...

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Feb

5

2010

PEOPLE – PLIMSOLL, Samuel.

dean

People & Characters

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The premise of Marks and Spencer in the High Street was where a man called Samuel Plimsoll stayed regularly. The site was once a well known chemists shop trading under the name of Crow’s. A past time of Samuel Plimsoll was walking along the beach each day. He took a great interest in the amount...

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Feb

5

2010

BEACH – Forest under the Sea

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Beach

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The Forest Under The Sea           The first written account of the submerged forest at Redcar was after it was revealed in 1871. It was recorded in 1871 that antler of red deer and the tusks of wild boar were found, and were very well preserved.           The forest which had been...

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Feb

5

2010

FARM – Marsh House Farm, Warrenby.

dean

Farms

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  Marsh Farm House is a Grade II Listed Building, and the present residents are Bill & Margaret Troup and May their daughter May and her husband Mike Dearman, who actually owns the property. Marsh Farm House Farm was believed to have been built in 1770 on a track known as Marsh Road, and...

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Feb

5

2010

PEOPLE – LOCKE T.W.S. Colonel. JP

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People & Characters

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COLONEL. T.W.S. LOCKE (J.P.)  1830 – 1924 Colonel Locke was a bachelor, and served in the Crimean War (1854 – 1856) as a surgeon. Records show that he resided at 2 Nelson Terrace in 1913. It is not known at the date of his arrival in Redcar whether he was still a practicing surgeon, but...

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Feb

5

2010

PEOPLE – WARNER, Jack. (Film Star)

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People & Characters

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JACK WARNER In March 1941, the then well know police officer film star Jack Warner visited Redcar, In aid of the War Weapons Week fund raising.

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