Darlington Saltburn branch

[mr B]

Marske-by-the-sea, the station is under demolision during 1973, up untill this time gas lighting still in use...

mr B ,,, more to come

[Sedgefield]

How about this of Lackenby in 1971 when out chasing the last trolleybuses

[mr B]

memories...nice photo, its Bolckow Terrace on Church lane, horrible dirty smelly place to live coke ovens straight opposite-50 meter's, the houses always had a layer of muck inside, even after she had cleaned up ! And as you can see no one bothered with the gardens simply because nothing would grow ! Low Lackenby was a simple row of houses on the banks of the Tees( fishermens cottages), the Stockton-Darlington Rly had a simple request stop en-route to its terminus at Redcar. When Lackenby works was getting built in the late 1800's-early 1900's the cottages were demollished to make way for the expanding steel works. South Lackenby is a one row terrace situated between Eston and Greystones roundabout on the A 174. The railway line to the left of the photo is for coal/coke wagons and was worked by steel works loco's as far as the BR interchange siding's. Smashing photo Sedgefield plenty of historical value.

mr B .. native slaggy islander

[mr B]

study Sedgfields photo and just behind the signal cabin you can just make out a trolly (turquise in colour) exit-ing the under pass (subway) from Bolckow Road onto Church Lane.

mr B

[mr B]

Marske-by-the-sea again just before the demolision boys moved in cica 1973.

It might be worth a mention that Marske had staggered platform's, rail over road bridge, next enterance to yard, with coal drops(opposite the station building) and goods shed and crane, not forgetting those gas light's right up untill the end, Just in case any one fancy's modelling it !

mr B

[StevieG]

How about this of Lackenby in 1971 when out chasing the last trolleybuses

Little knowledge of, and not too interested in, this area ; BUT, I agree - very good photo ; such old-looking lower-quadrant signals, and 'now that's what I call a tall signal box !' Reminds me of Harringay Up Goods in that respect.

[mr B]

Another similar box (very tall) in the area was at Brotton station for covering the junction of the Saltburn/Guisbrough-Loftus-Whitby line.

mr B

[Sedgefield]

Here is one from 26.4.70 of Trolley heading out of Southbank towards Lackenby Blast Furnace and the row of cottages mentioned above.

[mr B]

I'd be thinking its Clay lane blast furnace, oppossit was the infamous slag tip that bore Slaggy Islands nickname, up untill the late 1950's this was fed by overhead buckets, oppossit was Eston Grange (posh house) later to be taken ove by the North Yorkshire Fire Brigade, then round the corner to Bolckow Terace. Opposite the trolly on the right not in picture, was 'mucky pots' pub, the wife's would either wait outside Clay Lane entrance or out side the pub on pay days be fore hubby spent the house keeping. Nice picture Sedgefield.

mr B

[mr B]

The blast furness to the front of the trolly-above photo (Clay Lane/Cleveland Works) was built around Branch End Terrace, so named because of its proximity of Eston Junction, the S&D/NER branch to Eston, when Eston station closed the Eston Junction station also closed, and a new station built at South Bank. Branch End was known as the village in the works it even had its own pub! As the works grew in size Branch end was demollished along with houses on Middlesbrough Road East, the road the trolly is on in the above photo.

mr B, photos from John O'neils Cardboard City web site

[PinzaC55]

Some great news for this line is that the "mothballed" Redcar Steelworks is to be reopened by a Taiwanese steel firm .http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/news ... Corus.html

Though it stills galls that our national industries are the plaything of foreign interests.

[StevieG]

As an 'ignorant southerner', with no specific interest in this area or its industry, I have to say that recent posts in this thread have been quite intriguing in a 'curiousity' kind of way. The loss of housing through the steel industry's expansion is something that had never occurred to me before.
Thanks due to the relevant posters.

[mr B]

I would'nt say ignorant southerner, its a shame that such industry did'nt happen on a larger scale down your part of the country, as kids we grew up amongst the muck and filth of the work's and the memories linger, like wise yourself had a much more healthier up bringing and your child hood memories reflect on this, also in the above photo its worth remembering that Dorman Long (steel works owners) owned the pub, so in theory they got half of their money back on pay day.

mr B

[coachmann]

Lovely to see these pictures. Those of us living 'oop north' in Cottonopolis can identify with the works, muck and soot and it was probably similar in the Midlands. A daytrip to Blackpool or Rhyl in the fresh air did us a power of good, although it took a week away to clean out the lungs so that we could smell the soot in the air when we got back home! All very oppressive. I didn't hang around any longer than was necessary and moved to Wales in the mid 1960s.

[PinzaC55]

A bit off topic but I can well remember Consett Steelworks.Everything in the town was coated in red dust - it really made you wonder how women kept clothes clean on the washing line and what effect all that gunge had on people's lungs....
The steelworks has been so completely erased from the landscape that you'd never know it had been there and I thought Redcar was set to go the same way.