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christwigg Joined: 20/02/2008 Location: Cleveland View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 22/03/2012 19:50:19 Reply | Quote http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01dy0f4/Britains_First_Photo_Album_Hartlepool_to_Whitby/ Pays a visit to the Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum Although I would take the part about the poor workers from Saltburn (from those enormous villas ??) going across the Ha'Penny Bridge to the mine with a considerable pinch of salt 
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simonrail Joined: 23/07/2008 Location: Cleveland View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 22/03/2012 20:42:48 Reply | Quote There were certainly some miners who lived in Saltburn and worked at Huntcliffe Mines. They walked over the Halfpenny Bridge then over another bridge beside Saltburn Mill. IP: 81.107.48.60 |
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christwigg Joined: 20/02/2008 Location: Cleveland View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 22/03/2012 23:31:15 Reply | Quote Struggling to believe your poorly paid miner would be shelling out a penny a day to not just walk via the bank for free. IP: 82.5.179.238 |
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simonrail Joined: 23/07/2008 Location: Cleveland View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 23/03/2012 19:36:02 Reply | Quote After a 10 hour shift drilling and loading 5 tons of ironstone I think I would willingly pay a halfpenny not to have to climb up Saltburn Bank. Even in the good old days Saltburn wasn't all villas and posh folk - there were plenty of working class areas like Upleatham Street and miners lodged in the Jewel Streets. And there would be a fair number of working class families providing workers at the engine shed, and servants for the occupiers of the villas and posh houses. IP: 81.107.48.60 |
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christwigg Joined: 20/02/2008 Location: Cleveland View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 23/03/2012 20:00:35 Reply | Quote simonrail wrote: After a 10 hour shift drilling and loading 5 tons of ironstone I think I would willingly pay a halfpenny not to have to climb up Saltburn Bank. I don't think i've ever come close to winning an argument against the 'guru', BUT where exactly was the other bridge at Saltburn Mill ? Surely its exactly the same height gain walking up Saltburn Bank from there as it is walking up the other equally steep bank to the opposite end of the bridge ? IP: 82.5.179.238 |
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simonrail Joined: 23/07/2008 Location: Cleveland View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 23/03/2012 20:36:55 Reply | Quote There's quite a well-known picture although of poor quality which shows this bridge with the mill and possible alum house in the background - see Dave he's probably got a picture of it. If you left work at Cliff or Huntcliffe you could either walk back to Saltburn the scenic way, via the cliff top, or the inland route down past Ladgates, or the third route via Brough House, both of these latter routes would lead you to Saltburn Road which at that time went down past Saltburn Mill, not the modern road at higher level. The bridge near the mill was about half the height of the Halfpenny Bridge and its west abutment somewhere near the present sewage pipe works. Then it was not such a climb up over the field to the Halfpenny Bridge. I don't mind youngsters asking questions of the Old Bull - it keeps me on my toes. IP: 81.107.48.60 |
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Wesker26 Joined: 21/09/2007 Location: Whitby, North Yorkshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 23/03/2012 21:53:15 Reply | Quote I've e-mailed you the pic, took me forever to locate it considering i have 1500 images of Saltburn, stuck a copy in the mines folder for easy access now. IP: 109.151.73.171 |
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christwigg Joined: 20/02/2008 Location: Cleveland View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 24/03/2012 16:42:38 Reply | Quote simonrail wrote: I don't mind youngsters asking questions of the Old Bull - it keeps me on my toes. I'll get you one day, but this time I bow to the superior knowledge of the old guard.  |
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simonrail Joined: 23/07/2008 Location: Cleveland View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 24/03/2012 19:45:18 Reply | Quote Very prominent in the picture is Saltburn Mill just beyond the bridge which has completely vanished (like the bridge) but the weir and launder for it are still traceable. In the background is the building which still remains converted to a house - it's an unusual agricultural building and there are a couple of references to an alum house here so it would be nice to be able to confirm it was in fact the alum house for Selby Hagg alum works. IP: 81.107.48.60 |
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DavidAGiles Joined: 23/04/2011 Location: Mexico and Latín América View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 25/08/2012 15:13:25 Reply | Quote I cant waite to re visit Skelton to learn about the old iron mines. I attended the little Skelton primary school in 1955 and am a geologist working for Fresnillo Plc in Mexico. I like your histórical photos and comments. Regards David Giles IP: 189.155.13.98 |
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