Feb

4

2010

YAWL or Yole

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Boats & Ships

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YAWL OR YOLE Fishing was the first known industry in Redcar YAWL or YOLE – definition – (1) A two masted fore and aft sailing boat with the mizzen-mast stepped far aft. (2) A small kind of fishing boat (3) A ship’s jolly boat with four or six oars The word YAWL or YOLE relates to a...

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Feb

4

2010

SEAGULLS The

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Education, Classes, Clubs & Organisations

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SEAGULLS SWIMMING CLUB Many thanks go to one of our visitors to the site HB for the below, which are extracts from the original minutes. At, the time of the formation of The Redcar Amateur Swimming Club in the 1920’s there were no baths in the town so the club provided the town with something...

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Feb

4

2010

REDCAR – Racecourse

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Buildings

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RACECOURSE Redcar Racecourse. A large full circuit course, with its main feature, the straight one mile run in to the winning post.   For many years, before the present racecourse came into being, horse racing was carried out on the sands. During the 1800’s racing became even more popular...

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Feb

4

2010

PACCITTO Family

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People & Characters

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PACCITTO FAMILY Home of the Lemon Top Paccittos’ Espalande, Redcar. Home of the ‘LEMON TOP’ Ice Cream The Paccitto family first came to the United Kingdom, in 1897/1898, (104 years ago) from Italy. Their first visit was understood to be temporary, and they returned shortly back to...

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Feb

4

2010

LILY Park

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Parks

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LILY PARK The Lily Park Esplanade Redcar.   This park is halfway along the Coast Road, Redcar, and is apparent by the space between the houses. Now just open parkland there was originally a pond with water lilies planted it. During recent years the Northumbrian Water Board extensively excavated...

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Feb

4

2010

KIRKLEATHAM 1

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History General

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Accreditation: The below records are taken from a local paper the Cleveland Standard which printed these in March and April 1933. At the time of placing the records below on this web site, 9th, February, 2010 (77 years after being printed in that paper) the web master of this site believed they were...

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Feb

4

2010

FARM – Ings Farm, Stirling Road, Redcar.

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Farms

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 INGS FARM Ings Farm, top of Stirling Road, Redcar, where the now shops in Castle Road stand. Stirling Road, Redcar, walking south towards Castle Road, was once a lane that weaved its way up to the Ings Farm House.Ings Farm Estate it is known as today, but we knew there was a farm house at this location...

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Feb

4

2010

PEOPLE – CAWTHORNE, Nathanial.

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People & Characters

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An American author travelling apparently around the North East Coast came to Redcar on 26th, July, 1859, in the quietness that was Redcar at the time, he worked on his final great novel “The Marble Faun” Accreditation Cleveland Standard. Where the Novelist Stayed Nigel Hawthorne    There...

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Feb

4

2010

HEALTH – Cholera & Typhoid

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Doctors & Health

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CHOLERA & TYPHOID          During September 1854, Zetland Place (now South Terrace), became the focus of attention for an outbreak of Cholera within the town, basically put down to poor sanitation. Living standards in some parts of the town would be by today’s standards declared appalling....

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Feb

4

2010

PEOPLE – HUNT Rex Masterman Sir

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People & Characters

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 Sir Rex Masterman HUNT Born 29/06/1926@ Redcar Educated (Head Boy) Coatham Grammar School, Redcar Gained a B.A. @ St Peter’s College, Cambridge   Entered Royal Air Force and served from 1944 – 1948 Flight Lieutenant, and fighter pilot flying Vampires, Tempests and Spitfires.   1951 Started...

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