GRAFFENBERG STREET One of the most unusual named streets in Redcar, but in actual fact has a foreign connection behind its name. Although now a car park, leading off the sea front, (with the Royal Hotel on the other side of the street) the original location was that of Doctor Horners Hydropathic Establishment,...

FISHERMAN’S SQUARE AND WHAT DO YOU THINK?    Mention Fisherman’s Square? and you probably think about one of the oldest, and well-known place names in Redcar. The original name of the cottages, and area, was in the past called Zetland Square. The properties consisted of a row of terraced housing...

         SIR CHARLES TURNER Sir Charles Turner married Teresa Newcomen in 1796, but died in 1810 leaving the Kirkleatham Estates to his wife. She married Henry Vansittant in 1812 and had him a daughter Teresa Vansittant, who married her cousin Lt. Arthur Newcomen. They had two sons and two daughters....

         At present our shipwrecks lists Part 1 to 3 contain vessels that have come to grief (for whatever reason) on our notorious coastline – Hartlepool Bay – Estuary of River Tees, Redcar to Staithes.          ...

OVENBERG ? An extraordinary story surrounds a wreck that occurred at Saltburn, nearly 20 years ago (1924) is told by Mr Charles O’Connor, now of London who was a cook on board the ill fated “Ovenberg”. Mr O’Connor gives one to understand that the vessel was haunted by a ghost...

  Lifeboats at Redcar Zetland                                     1802  – 1864 United Free Gardeners               1877 – 1898 Known locally as the         ‘Emma’   Sir James Knottwas the last of the traditional lifeboats...