Happy Memories
My parents owned the pub in the mid 1970s, I have many happy memories of living here, through long winters being snowed in to long walks in the area in summer. Being 9 at the time my vivid memories are of during one hard winter blizzard, the snow had built up against the door to the room with the fire (door on the left in the photo) and the door burst open and all the snow blew into the room, at that time it was the dance floor. One of the local characters, Farmer George, lived in the nearby farm and I recall him coming in to the pub with his big baggy trowsers tied up with string. We had a couple of chefs at the pub, the head chef rode a motorbike and side car which was completely covered in and had a small heater inside. The other chef as I recall could not drive, as I remember my dad spending days and days with him showing him how to ride on a Honda step-through moped in the field across the road from the pub. When we were snowed in we often used to put bags of cement in the boot of the old Mercedes car only to get 3/4 of the way up the hill and stop, what a shame we had to have a day off school. The strangest occurence in the pub that I can remember is in the kitchen, above one of the doorways was a large shelf, which held large tins of soup powder. One evening after the kitchen had closed we heard a bang, one of the tins had fallen off the shelf and put a rather large indentation into the concrete, the odd thing being that the tin was completely on the shelf, how did it fall? Had we had an encounter with the Saltersgate Ghost? I am not sure. I have so many fond memories of the pub and it is very sad to see it in its present state. I would haved loved to have brought my family out from Australia to see the pub where we had some great times growing up. It is a real loss to the area as the pub has so much character and history.
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RE: RE: Happy Memories
Hi, I am the daughter of Diane Barrett, my name is Rebecca Mellard. I worked and lived in the pub in 2000 to 2001, I found the job in The Lady magazine and came from Nottingham to work there. I was a general assistant, helping with all duties in the pub, Sharon Milner and Michael Milner were running it at that time, I absolutely loved it living there. I remember on Christmas Day and New Year's Eve we were snowed in, Michael the landlord had made lots of food for new years eve for the locals but the whole lot was wasted as no one could get down the road the snow was so bad. I used to to talk to some of the locals they were such nice people from up that way, I remember a Brian and Andrea who used to come all the way from Hull for some of Mike's fabulous food, he was an amazing chef. The legend of the pub was that in the 1730s an excise man had gone down to the pub to try and catch them smuggling traded goods and that they bashed him over the head with a bar stool and buried him under the fireplace, instructing staff to never to let the fire go out, that way no one would ever look under a lit fire, I was frightened to death when I read that on a plaque on the wall, I had to sleep on my own in the pub some nights, you can imagine how hot it was in sunmmer with the coal fire burning, but that tradition had been held for many years. I've heard the pub is empty now and going to be turned into holiday flats, what a shame it will lose its tradition.
Comment from Diane Barrett on Friday, 17th September 2010.
RE: RE: Happy Memories
I am a new resident and have only been living at Newton on Rawcliffe 9 years. The pub has been in constant use in that time and is now run by Lynne Duffy. Here is their website: http://www.newtonwhiteswan.co.uk/ Enjoy! Cllr Billy Garrett
Comment from Billy Garrett on Sunday, 3rd July 2011.
RE: RE: Happy Memories
The fire at 'The Legendary' Saltersgate Pub has not been burning constantly for a lot of years. Florey Mackley who lived at Barr Farm used to have the job many years ago of lighting the fire every morning! Good story though. The pub is in a dreadful state now. How can the National Parks let this happen? It is an eyesore along the road to Whitby.
Comment from Claire Gibson on Monday, 31st October 2011.