LAST LINK WITH THE “ZETLAND”    06/04/1935. It was reported that he last link with the “Zetland” lifeboat was broken when Mr. Thomas Hood Picknett was united in death with his two sons, and brothers (whom he lost over 30 years ago) in a wreck which he survived.    After his...

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 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”....

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...

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 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 03/02/1934   1800’s One May Time Alderman Charlton Reminisce Fresco Entertainment. Groves’ Troupe of Pierrots went round the town giving performances with no definite pitch. At night time they arrived at the beach where large crowds gathered.            ...

About 1150 Ivo De Grancestre gave a piece of land to build a church in Redcar. No record was found of it having being built until 1829. A building may have existed as a way side chapel. The scheme was put in hand to build a church in 1818, but the foundation stone was not laid until 1823. This scheme...

 Accreditation to the Cleveland Standard 18/02/33 ALDERMAN B. O. DAVIES First Mayor of Redcar Never Lost Faith in Teesside By Hugh W Cook     Alderman B. O. Davies, who is a native of Merthyr Tydvil, came to Teesside in 1891, when he joined the staff of Messrs. J. M. Lennard and Son, of Middlesbrough,...