01/06/2010 Foying Boat and gangway shown on Redcar Beach Long gone now are fishermen foying for a living. During the summer months and holiday season, many a fisherman could be seen with his fishing boat plying for hire along the waterline with his boat alongside a wooden gangway. The above is a perfect...

Accreditation – The Cleveland Standard 07/01/1933, and the Yorkshire Archaeological Society of which he was a member. The Dowager Marchioness of Zetland By Hugh W. Cook. Redcar    When I called at Marske Hall, that stately old Jacobean mansion, a few days ago, I was most cordially invited by...

DEATH OF REDCAR’S TOWN CLERK End of Civic Epoch Brilliant Career of Public Service Practical Friend of the Unemployed           Redcar has suffered a grievous loss in the death on Thursday of its Town Clerk, Mr Robert McClean. A man of forceful personality, tempered by a charming geniality...

TOLL OF THE SEA Redcar Disaster Recalled Six Fishermen Drowned In sight of comrades             February 5, 1909, is one of the fatal dates in Redcar’s history. It was on this day that the sea took toll of six brave Redcar fishermen. Here is the story told by an eye witness:-            ...

Accreditation Cleveland Standard 1934   LIFE AT SOUTH GARE LIGHTHOUSE Watching For The Ships That Pass WHEN THE SEA BATTLES THE BREAKWATER           Do you know that every night incoming ships are guided into the Tees-mouth by the light from a “primus” (camping stove equipped...

Accreditation Cleveland Standard 04/08/1934  Italian Princess on Holiday at Redcar Niece of Governor of Rome  Only ten but can speak five Languages       For the past four years an Italian Princess has left her palatial home in Rome to spend an annual two months’ holiday in Redcar, living...

Accreditation Cleveland Standard 1934  (1934)  The Story Behind The Dustman’s Visit. A fuel Tip for Redcar Householders             In these modern days (1934 of course) we take the smooth running of the intricate machinery of a town the size of Redcar very much for granted, and only...

Accreditation Cleveland Standard 20/10/11934 MEMORIES OF WILEY BRIG Railway Track “Short Cut” to Kirkleatham             A woman saw Dormanstown grow from a few scattered cottages known Wile Brig, and the “garden city” of today, died in Dormanstown recently. (as briefly...

Accreditation Cleveland Standard 14/07/1934  HEROISM OF SCHOOLBOYS IN REDCAR ‘BUS SMASH Conductress  Who  Had  No Thought   For  Herself NEARBY HOMES TURNED INTO FIRST – AID  STATIONS (By a “STANDARD” REPRESENTATIVE)             One of the worst road accidents...

Accreditation to the Cleveland Standard 26/05/1934. A Day out at the Races 1867 Style Redcar Races Long Ago           Redcar Races, today the principle Whitsuntide attraction used to be run on the sands. There was only one small ground stand, erected by an enterprising local joiner, and he,...