Accreditation The Redcar & Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 17/10/1879 A LADEN STEAMER ON REDCAR ROCKS            Shortly before midnight  Saturday (11/10) owing to the prevalence of the dense fog, the screw Steamer “Coral Queen,” belonging to the West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Company,...

Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 05/09/1879 A PERILOUS VOYAGE           Three young men who came over to Redcar from West Hartlepool on Saturday afternoon, in the pleasure boat “Polly,” had an exceedingly narrow escape of their lives on Sunday, when off Redcar....

Accreditation The Redcar & Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 25/07/1879   STORM – GALE HEAVY RAIN on the NORTH EAST COAST            The north-east coast, in common with other parts of the country, was visited by a northerly gale on Monday, accompanied with heavy rain. There has been...

Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-on-Sea Gazette 27/06/1879 NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING AT REDCAR AND GALLANT RESCUE           Yesterday morning (26th), a young gentleman named Fryer, a native of Stockton, who has for a few weeks been staying at Redcar along with some other members of his...

Accreditation The Redcar & Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 10/08/1877 OPENING OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL           This place of worship was solemnly opened on Tuesday, by the Bishop of Beverley. The building is on the West side of the town a short distance from the gasworks, and is only intended...

Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 27/06/1873 THE ZETLAND FAMILY           A notification, dated Whitehall 14th June, appears in the London Gazette, to the effect that Her Majesty has been pleased to ordain and declare that John Charles Dundas, Esq., M.P. for Richmond,...

The Redcar & Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 24/09/1869. HIGH TIDES IN REDCAR – APPREHENSION           The approaching high tides continue to excite speculation, and in some quarters apprehension seems to exist as to the probable result should the weather prove stormy during the first week...

Accreditation to AN OLD STAGER  Redcar & Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 02/06/1894 THE ORIGIN OF THE SOUTH SHIELD and REDCAR LIFEBOATS _______ THE FIRST SOUTH SHIELDS BOATS           From numberless versions as to the origin of the lifeboat, space will allow for a mere glance. In 1789, the...

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 and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette. 31/10/1878 TERRIFFIC STORM ON THE NORTH-EAST COAST       On of the stormiest and roughest days that has been experienced on the north-east coast for some time. The afternoon there were no indications of a coming...