DONKEY LANE Mersey Road, Redcar, in the 1950’s was a dirt track known locally as Donkey Lane, and leading to Ramshaw’s Farm. Ramshaw’s also had a butchers shop on the corner of Coatham Road and Station Road, Redcar.

CRICKET CLUB           In 1858 the Redcar & Coatham Cricket club came into being. The land for the cricket club (between Nelson Terrace and Trafalgar Terrace) was leased from Arthur Henry Turner Newcomen. The iron railings which surround the cricket club came from Skinningrove Works. A...

FIRST COURT HOUSE The first recognised court house was established on Friday 21st January 1910. The court days for Redcar were held on the first and third Friday of every month. The Court House was temporary held in the Inspectors office in the Police Office, until the Police Office extension (Court...

CONVALESCENT HOME The Convalescent Home was located where the present Coatham Bowl is located now, looking seawards across the dunes and later across Boating Lake at the Coatham end of the Town.   More to follow later…

COATHAM ENCLOSURE 1930      The Coatham Enclosure was built in the year 1930 at the West end of the town. It was in the open air, and contained gardens, lawns, with wooden seating around a boating lake. The enclosure/boating lake itself was very popular, and had an island in the centre accessed...

CLEVELAND GOLF CLUB 1           Before the golf club was formed the dunes and lands, on which the Cleveland Golf Club was situated, belonged to the Kirkleatham Estates. The grazing rights for the particular land which formed the start of the golf club belonged to a farmer called Suggett. Mr...

MAJUBA HILL Majuba Hill is situated on Cleveland Golf Course, and being used during the summer months as the first tee Box. The whole of Cleveland Golf Course and some of the surrounding coastline can easily by seen from the top of the Hill. (Position yourself – Facing the sea with the Golf Club...

TITTY BOTTLE PARK Titty Bottle Park 1800’1900’s This was a park was opposite the then Bandstand on the Promenade. Today’s location is the actually the triangular traffic island on which stands the public toilets). It was in fact a comedian who appeared at Redcar that gave the park...

  Redcar Clock With a Tale to its Tick  Hickory, dickory dock, The sand got in the clock. Now that the Redcar “Town Clock” is “spring cleaned,” the clock deserves a “write up” to itself. A little over 20 years ago on January 29th, 1913, to be precise there took...

ZETLAND CLUB, COATHAM ROAD. BOMBING RAID REDCAR During World War II in an air raid what was thought to be on the steel works t bombs landed in Redcar. One of these bombs landed in Queen street striking a house, and the Second bomb striking the Zetland Club in Coatham Road. Fifteen people were killed,...