Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 01/07/1870. ACCIDENTAL FALL FROM A LADDER.             About 12 o’clock on Friday (25/06) morning last, as a man, named Thomas Howard, of Liverpool, a painter in the employ of Mr. Unthank, decorator, Station Road, was engaged...

Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 25/02/1870. FATAL ACCIDENT – INQUEST. REDCAR              On Monday afternoon (21/02) an inquest was held at the Crown and Anchor Hotel, on the body of James Shaw, fish hawker, residing in the Fisherman’s Square, Redcar. From...

  Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 14/02/1891 OBITUARY – W  H HILDRETH (Mr)              Early on Thursday morning (12/02), Mr William George Hildreth, manager of Messrs Bolckow and Vaughan’s Salt Works, Middlesbrough, died at his residence Vansittart Terrace,...

Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 31/07/1868.  CHILD SCOLDED TO DEATH TEES BREAKWATER.                  An inquest was held at the Lobster Hotel, Coatham on Saturday (25/07), before T.C. Sowerby, Esq., deputy coroner, touching the death of Joseph Henry Suffell,...

Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 12/06/1868. NARROW ESCAPE TO REDCAR LAD.              Between one and two o’clock on Saturday afternoon (06/06), a lad named William Jenkins narrowly escaped losing his life on the railway. He had been sent by Mr Skinner, of...

  Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 18/03/1870. A NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.              An incident occurred yesterday (Thursday 17/03) morning to a pilot named James Carter. Carter and another pilot named Edward Guy put off to a ship which had signalled for...

Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 25/02/1870 DEATH – INQUEST OF UNKNOWN MAN.              Yesterday (Thursday, 24/02), an inquest was held at the Royal Hotel, on the body of a man who was washed up on the beach on Wednesday (23/02). Geo Dobson deposed that he...

Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea 16/07/1869 BODY PICKED UP OFF REDCAR           Yesterday afternoon (15/07), the body of a man in an advanced state of decomposition was picked up by a coble off East Scar. It was brought ashore and taken to the Royal Hotel, where it remains awaiting...

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....

Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 10/09/1869. SUDDEN DEATH             On Wednesday morning (08/09), and awfully sudden death occurred at the Redcar Railway Station. An old gentleman named Stuart, of Edinburgh, who had been staying sometime at Redcar, was at the station...