Accreditation The Redcar and Saltburn-by-the Sea Gazette 27/08/1869 Coatham Marshes (a letter by Antiquary)             I am a visitor to Redcar in search of health and have taken up my abode in apartments that over-look the sea and the beach, and now and then lave my debilitating body in...

Accreditation Cleveland Standard 30/01/1937 SALTBURN WRECKS AND RESCUES LIFEBOAT STATION’S WORK REVIEWED Years of Gallant Service    While Redcar and its brave fishermen will ever occupy a permanent position in the story of lifeboat work and rescue, Saltburn, too, has an honourable record of...

Accreditation Cleveland Standard 26/01/1935. IT HAPPENED ONCE . . . OUT OF THE CLAMMY GLOOM OF THE FOG    Fog . . . The all-enveloping fog swept down like a ghoul, devouring everything in a clammy silence, disturbed only by shifting avenues of reverberating sound. The faint cry of a sea-bird, the seeming...

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Accreditation Cleveland Standard 13/06/1936 Street Names at Warrenby    Has it ever occurred to you why virtually every street in Warrenby is named after a bird? As you go down the main road the routine is bound to be noticed when you see Plover Street, Widgeon Street, and Snipe Street. The origin...

Accreditation Cleveland Standard 28/03/1936 New Arrivals at Coatham Enclosure A Trip in the New Craft (SPECIAL)    Two men with skilful fingers and watchful eyes have been preparing the past week for the pleasure-seeking multitudes who will be invading the Coatham Enclosure on Good Friday. These men...

Accreditation The Cleveland Standard 1930s Ancient Coatham The Camp of Refuge By Joseph F. Hurst, North Ormesby.    This ancient Cleveland resort has a history second to none in our very interesting and historical district. In the earliest period of its history East Coatham was a hamlet within the...

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...

     Believed to have been the last battle place for the personnel residing there against William the Conqueror around the date 1070-1075?      Situated to the West of Redcar, and now heavily industrialised was the site of marshes.      Formerly well known still to this day by the residents...

Formerly a large area of street terrace housing to mostly accommodate the workers of the iron works, which became Dorman Long. Most of these houses have long gone and only slight remnants of the area remain to this day. Well known for its access by road (Tod Point road still in use) to the South Gare...