Accreditation: On entering this page on Redcar Past and Present we would like to thank the following people and web site concerned for their permission to use details from their site www.naval-history.net and also Lt Cdr. Geoff Mason who compiled the history and photograph, (not forgetting Gordon Smith...

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, where...

   Such was the rivalry in the past between Coatham and Redcar that they put up a wooden boundary fence between the two communities to make it quite clear which area you were in.    The boundary fence started at West Terrace, then in a line along West Dyke Ditch towards Kirkleatham.  

          NIGEL CAWTHORNE – AMERICAN AUTHOR              An American author travelling apparently around the North East Coast came to Redcar on 26 July 1859. In the quietness that was Redcar at the time; he worked on his final great novel          “The Marble Faun”          ...

LISTED BUILDINGS OF REDCAR   GRADE I 1.Sir William Turners Hospital, Kirkleatham 2.Entrance screen, loggias, forts, flat & outhouses to Sir William Turner’s Hospital – Kirkleatham 3.St Cuthberts Church – Kirkleatham 4.The Turner Mausoleum – Kirkleatham 5.Gate piers at entrance...