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Upleatham
We lived in Upleatham, my gran, grandad and my mum and dad. I was really young and my grandparents had lived there for a long time. We lived in a row of houses as the centre of the village and my grandad worked in the local saw mill and had other jobs. We had no electricity and no running hot or cold water. We had an outhouse at the back of the house up a hill. It was really cold going up there in winter! No bathroom and the men used to shave in the kitchen using the sink. I remember that grandad had the kind of razor that he sharpened on a leather strap.
My mum and gran had to ...read more here
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Upleatham Church
I remember that The Green Howards (Army) did a renovation on the church some years ago. It could be anywhere between 1960 / 1970 ish, but I do remember that as a philatelist, a First Day Cover was issued and I bought one. Unfortunately I sold on my collection, so can't pinpoint that event. I know that they did a great clean up job, whitewashing the inner church and doing a general tidy up. I have recently been up to take my own photographs for my church 'Newsletter' as I do write up places of interest as a feature.
If anyone could furnish me with facts about the church I would be pleased to hear from them. My email is jim.humphrey@ntlworld.com
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A memory of Upleatham contributed by Jim Humphrey
Lockwood Beck and Lingdale
Hi Everyone what a lovely photo of the reservoir. My family lived at the reservoir for many years. My father and his father were born there with his sisters. He was Henry Marshall born 1923. He was the 3rd Henry Marshall...me I'm the 4th and my son is the 5th.
A family member has traced the family of marshalls back to 16oo's in Lincolnshire.
My dad used to work for the Water Authority and found out when the trees around the reservoir had been cut. We often used to collect logs for our fires when we lived at 8 Davison Street Lingdale. Unfortunately I never fished the waters.
Dad told us about the early years of the war when German Bombers ...read more here
A memory of Boosbeck contributed by David Marshall
Fish and chips in Gerrie Street
I remember when I was a little girl and we lived in Gerrie Street. Opposite us was Mr Brown's Fish and Chip Shop and he made wonderful fish and chips. The window of my mum and dad's bedroom overlooked the fish and chip shop and what we called "The Bank Top". I used to creep out of bed in the summer and watch the young people getting their fish and chips and then standing on the bank top to eat them. At the weekend there was always quite a crowd and I was fascinated.
Mr Brown was a lovely man. I used to play whip and top on the bank top and many a time I can remember him knocking a ...read more here
A memory of Boosbeck contributed by gillian cheetham
Extracts From Guisborough & Cleveland books
The only remnants of the Priory now standing are a 12th-century gatehouse and the east end of the 14th century church. Near the Priory is the church of St Nicholas, which contains the Brus Cenotaph, on which are carved ten knights representing members of the family. Robert de Brus died at Guisborough in 1145.
An extract from from"North Yorkshire Photographic Memories".
In Victorian times the priory
was often incorrectly referred
to as ‘the abbey’, and this led to
considerable confusion. Many
souvenirs and postcards of the
late 19th and early 20th
centuries bear the legend ‘the
abbey’. This unusual view
shows the priory arch from the
south; in the foreground are
gardens which became a
formal rose garden laid out for
Margaret, later the first Lady
Gisborough (see photograph
54863). The clump of trees to
the right of the picture are the
Monks’ Walk, and above the
paling fence is the wall of the
Long Terrace. A flight of steps
from this terrace led up to the
priory ruins and was flanked by
two carved demi-sea wolves,
the crest of the Chaloner
family. Gisborians mistakenly
thought that these creatures
were dragons, and hence the
steps became known as the
Dragon Steps.
An extract from from"Guisborough Photographic Memories".
This oval-shaped double
avenue of lime trees was
laid out by the Chaloner
family in the 18th
century. In the centre was
a manicured lawn that in
latter years was often the
venue for musical and
theatrical productions.
Although now overgrown,
the Monks’ Walk still
exists, and those of a
more superstitious
nature perpetuate the
legend of the walk being
haunted by the ghost of a
monk from the days of
the nearby priory.
An extract from from"Guisborough Photographic Memories".
In 1887 the Board of Governors of the newly reconstituted Guisborough Grammar School commissioned Alfred
Waterhouse, an eminent Victorian architect, most famous for designing the Natural History Museum in London,
to design the new Grammar School buildings and the headmaster’s house (right), seen here shortly after their
completion. The Chairman of the Board of Governors was Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease; twenty years earlier, he
had used Alfred Waterhouse to design his mansion, Hutton Hall, and one assumes this connection influenced
the choice of architect for the Grammar School buildings. Built in Waterhouse’s characteristic red brick and
terracotta style, the buildings replaced the old almshouses and school buildings that fronted Church Walk. The
plaque over the central archway reads: ‘Guisborough Grammar School - founded in the reign of Queen
Elizabeth AD 1561, re-erected in the reign of Queen Victoria AD 1887’.
The
Grammar
School
An extract from from"Guisborough Photographic Memories".
Again we still see the old font in
front of the priory arch and a gravel
path to the right, long since
disappeared, which presumably led
to the greenhouse shown in the view
of 1885. Visible here are the two
stone coffins which for many years
have stood at the base of the arch,
and also the entrances to the two
stone spiral staircases which lead up
to the window at the very top of the
arch, across which many an intrepid
Gisborian claims to have walked
before the bottoms of the staircases
were removed for reasons of safety.
The high stone wall to the left has
always afforded the priory grounds
with privacy and protection; the
grounds have a ‘secret garden’
quality, and their tranquillity and
peace are in sharp contrast to the
hustle and bustle of the nearby town
centre. There is a panoramic view
from the arch across the adjoining
farmland and Applegarth towards
Gisborough Hall. This view was
enhanced as part of the Chaloners’
landscaping in the 18th century
when the tracery of the former east
window was removed to afford this
fine prospect.
An extract from from"Guisborough Photographic Memories".