Accreditation F. Brunskill with his photograph showing just a small part of the once forest covered by sand and time. On extremely low tides more of this is plainly visible 1871 The Forrest under the Sea The first written account of the submerged forest at Redcar was after it was revealed in 1871....

1820   Redcar Post Office The Beginning The first post office recorded in Redcar was in the year 1820. It was a timber framed cruck building located at numbers 38-40 High Street. The post office then had a good service with the post being collected every day (during the bathing season – Summer...

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Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn-by-the Sea 06/03/1868. SEA WALL COMMITTEE The seawall committee have had several meetings this week, but we do not learn that any decisive action has yet been taken, beyond obtaining subscriptions. Lord Zetland has offered to increase his subscription, subject to...

Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette 17/01/1868 REDCAR LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH AND THE SEA WALL             A special meeting of the Redcar Local Board of Health was held last night (16/01) at the office, West Terrace ” to approve or reject plans of the sea wall and the promenade, and...

Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 10/11/1871. INQUEST – UNKNOWN MALE WEST COATHAM             On Monday last (06/11) an inquest was held at the Lobster Hotel before J. C. Sowerby, Esq., Coroner, on the date body of a man, name unknown, who was found dead on Friday...

Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 10/11/1871. BOARD OF HEALTH – REDCAR             The monthly meeting of the Board took place on Monday last (06/11), Present – Messrs. E. W. Lennard, (Chairman); J. Mallaby, and R. P. Johnston; J. G. Thompson, (Clerk); and...

Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 10/11/1871 GUY FAWKES’ DAY AT REDCAR             The celebration of this annual carnival lasted over three days at Redcar. On Saturday evening (04/11) the bonfire was lighted on the promenade by some of the younger generation,...

Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 20/10/1871 COATHAM CONVALESCENT HOME New Hospital for Sick Children 20/10/1871. Homes of the Good Samaritan.— A prospectus as being issued announcing the intention of the promoters of the Convalescent Home to build a hospital for sick children,...

Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 06/10/1871. THE SKELETON FOUND ON THE EAST BANKS             On Saturday last (30/09), as two young men were walking along the beach to the east of Redcar, they observed in the face of the hills some bones protruding, and ascertaining...