Accreditation the Middlesbro are and Stockton Gazette 27/03/1868 REDCAR – THE BRUTAL ASSAULT              At Guisborough Petty Sessions, on Tuesday (24/03), Matthew Clark, an Irishman, surrendered to his bail on the charge of assault upon Mary Fawcett, on the eighth inst., At Redcar....

Accreditation the Middlesbro and Stockton Gazette 13/03/1868 REDCAR – BRUTAL ASSAULT             At Guisbrough Petty Sessions on Tuesday and (10/03), ), before Rev. G. J. Morehead, C.C. Oxley, and J. T. Wharton, Esq. Matthew Clark, labourer, Redcar, was brought up in the custody of Sgt...

Accreditation the Middlesbro and Stockton Gazette 13/03/1868.  REDCAR NONE PAYMENTS OF RATES GUISBOUGH PETTY SESSIONS             At Guisborough Petty Sessions on Tuesday (10/03), before Rev. G. J. Morehead, C.C. Oxley, and J. T. Wharton, Esq. John Sill, John Coulson, Thomas Walker, George...

Accreditation the Middlesbro’ and Stockton Gazette 06/03/1868 DRUNK AND RIOTOUS             At the Guisborough Petty Sessions, on Tuesday (03/03), before the Rev G J Morehead and J. T. Wharton, Esq., Robert Marley, late a police constable in the North Riding, and George Marley his brother,...

04/11/1922 REDCAR – COURTS FIRST ALDERMANIC BENCH           Redcar’s first Aldermen elected to the Aldermanic Bench were Thos Phillipson 6 years W. S. Hill 6 years R. Spellman 6 years W. Metcalfe 3 years B. O. Davies 3 years (also life of) W. Wardman 3 years

Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 19/11/1887. COATHAM – CRUEL NEGLECT OF A GOAT            On Tuesday (15/11) morning at Guisborough Police Court, a case was heard in which Anthony Adamson, greengrocer, Coatham, was charged with cruelly ill treating a goat by keeping...

Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 04/12/1880. AN INCOURAGIBLE YOUNG THIEF AT COATHAM.           At Guisborough Petty Sessions, a lad about fifteen years of age, named William Bowers, was brought up in custody charged with stealing £1 in gold from Henry Holmes, flour dealer,...

Boundary Fence             Such was the rivalry in the past (1800’s) between Coatham and Redcar, they put up a wooden boundary fence between their two communities to make quite clear which area you were in. The boundary fence started in West terrace, and travelled southerly in a straight...

Accreditation The Redcar & Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 05/07/1878. HIGHWAY ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE BY MILITIAMEN      Two members of the North Durham Militia, named Thomas Spadding, of Seaham Harbour, and John Cawthorne, of Darlington, were charged before T. Hugh Bell, Esq., on Monday, 1st, inst...

Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette. 26/01/1877. A REDCAR RIGHT OF ROAD CASE NEWCOMEN V. COULSON High Court of Justice (Chancery Division) Jan. 18. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir R Malins)      This was a motion for an injunction to restrain the defendant – Coulson, Goodall,...