Accreditation Cleveland Standard 1935 PARK BUILT ON REFUSE DUMP How Redcar Developed in King’s Reign (Special to the “Standard.”)  A story of a park that was built on a refuse dump, a Roman Catholic Chapel that became a laundry, a whale that troubled the sanitary authorities and almost...

Accreditation Cleveland Standard 27/01/1933 LORD & LADY GISBOROUGH Driveway to Guisborough Hall from main road               Perhaps the Right Hon. Lord Gisborough whose stately North Yorkshire home is Guisborough Hall, has not entered into the life of Cleveland as intimately as did...

Accreditation – Cleveland Standard 1935.    The above (just visible along with the following text which we can make out) is a photograph showing the home then of a Mrs. Cooke, High Street, Redcar, to whom the photograph at the time was indebted to the Cleveland Standard. It was taken on celebrations...

 Redcar Fishing Cobles & Double Enders Cobles   Traditionally Redcar has always had a mixture of craft working from the flat beaches. Cobles generally are the larger boats and are an ideal boat for the North East coast. Originally clinker built from larch on oak, the boats were often ‘powered’...

Accreditation Cleveland Standard 24/11/1934 LAST OF THE “ALARM BOYS” Death Ends Career of a Gallant Lifeboatman William R.  PICKNETT            Over half a century ago Redcar heard for the last time the beating of the drum sounded by the Redcar lifeboat “alarm boy”....

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...