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Historic maps of Littlebeck and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Littlebeck maps
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Sleights| Grosmont| Ruswarp| Goathland| Fylingdales| Whitby| Hawsker| Egton| Saltwick Bay| Robin Hoods Bay| Sandsend| Lythe| Ellerby
Littlebeck area books
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North Yorkshire memories
Childhood Dreams of Grosmont.
1942 was the year that my mother, Ethel Tyreman (nee Davidson) and sister Iris and brothers Harry, Fred, Frank and myself Eric, moved to Grosmont when our Whitby home was hit by German bombs. My dad, Fred, was a P.O.W in Germany. As a family of six, we lived in a one down, two up house in Waterloo Cottages. The house had no running water or electricity, and the toilet was a cinder closet around the back. Water was collected from a single communal tap along the street. The fireplace had a side oven on one side, and a water tank on the other side for hot water. Coal was in short supply, so our fire burnt logs collected from the Esk river...Happy days. Mother would bake bread in the side oven, and one Christmas she made a big christmas cake.It took all night to cook with a large branch of wood sticking out of the fire, and had to be eased gently under the oven. In the downstairs room we... Read more
Featured Buildings.
The large building on the left edge of the photograph is Ruswarp Mill. A mill has been here since Saxon times and the first written record of this mill appears in the Domesday book.
The name Ruswarp may have originated from the mill. The mill was water powered and the river would have been dammed to make a mill race. Dams in this area are known as 'scarps' and if the dam was made of wood, the brushwood was called 'rise'. Hence 'Risescarp' - brushwood dam.
Alternatively, it may have arisen from the use of brushwood to divert fish in to fish traps known as 'salmon hecks'. The old local term 'warp' describes a bank of mud deposited by a river as the flow slows down after coming down from the high moors. Some of these mudbanks sprout vegetation - brushwood from seed and twigs carried down by the river. Hence 'Risewarp'.
The present mill building shown in this... Read more
BMEWSS at Fylingdales
In 1962, my family (father, mother, one brother, and I) lived in Whitby and Goathland while my father, a mechanical and electrical engineer, was working on the design and construction of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning Signal System at Fylingdales, a cooperative project of the United States and Great Britain. These "golf balls," as they were called, loomed over the moors. To find photographs of the installation 45 years later has been wonderful. I understand that this installation has since been replaced with other structures. I hope to return to see them later this year.
RAF Fylingdales
I came across this site while searching history. I have a story about Fylingdales. I was 19 and posted to a place called Goldsborough and we travelled daily to Fylingdales to clear uxb ordinance. Our vehicles were recognised by red mudguards to denote bomb disposal business. Does anyone remember the vehicles in question trundling through Lyth,Sandsend, the outskirts of Whitby, Love Lane, and Ruswarp, Sleights ect? If so, share your memories with me, Geoffrey Pallett: geoffrey.m3uxb@virgin.net.
I remember the three wonderful summers we had and the changing seasons and the whistle of the trains along the valley at Gothland. I also remember the winter of 1962/63 when we were marooned and had food flown out to us as we had to stay in the builders/contractors accommodation. We had a rum ration, and it was so cold and with me not being a drinker I was bad for a few days with a stomach complaint that nearly cost me my life later in 1980. My wife of 42 years... Read more
FYLINGDALES
Please note to avoid confusion, the memories on other pages from Geoffrey Powell ... My name was changed on leaving RAF but was SAC Geoffrey Pallett when at Goldsborough 1961/3. Please e-mail geoffrey.m3uxb@virgin.net
Thank you, Geoff.
Fylingdales Construction
I worked as an electrician on the installation of all the electrical services in conjunction with RCA and others. I lived in a residential caravan at the Flask Inn, on the coast road, with my wife and at that time our two baby sons. We spent two very happy years there and the experience of the 1963 winter was extraordinary though sometimes scary at the time. I wrote a little family book for my children and grandchildren in which I recounted some of the experiences we had while working there, including helicopter evacuations, industrial relation problems, the angel of Saltersgate and other memories I will never forget. We were disappointed when we had to leave at the end of the contract, when we moved down to Suffolk for the construction of the Sizewell, a nuclear power station. Jack
RAF GOLDSBOROUGH
My name is Geoffrey Powell, My name was changed for family reasons from SAC Geoffrey Pallett, I was stationed at RAF Goldsborough, it was a camp situated at East Barnby but took the name from nearby Goldsborough. I was on a Bomb Disposal squadron and travelled each day to the now RAF Fylingdales to clear un-exploded munitions. We frequented the Fox public house at nearby Kettleness and walked nearly three miles. We used to travel down in that awful winter 1962/3 the hill called Lyth Bank. The summers I spent were infectious with their beauty especially looking across from the old Radar station at Goldsborough of which I have a black and white photo I took in 1960 of the old Radar Head, the view was wonderful with rolling countryside and green fields down to the North Sea... Happy days. If anyone remembers me please get in touch. I am Geoffrey Powell... formerly Geoffrey Pallett, changed name for family reasons ..Location Tamworth, Staffs: geoffrey.m3uxb@virgin.net Thank you .. ... Read more
