Wednesday: June 28th – Saltwick alum works – Duration 4-4½ hours Meet at the top of the 199 steps (NZ 902 112) in Whitby for a 10:30am depart. The nearest car park is the Abbey Plain car park, which is “pay-and-display”. The route takes us south along the Cleveland Way as far as the caravan […]
Aged 21, Drifter, he was bringing two full tubs outbye along the main road to the landing, when a large piece of dogger fell from the roof on to him and killed him; there is a fault or hitch near to, and this may have had something to do with the roof falling; the mine […]
Aged 27, Miner, killed by a fall of stone, Buried: All Saints Old Churchyard, Skelton Parish records image by kind permission of Teesside Archives.
Our partners the Tees Valley Wildlife Trust recently undertook a small mammal survey at the Skelton Park ironstone mine. Bank Voles were found in the live capture traps Wood Mice were also recorded before being released unharmed. The absence of shrews in the first survey was curious as there are plenty of shrew skulls in […]
The major outbreak of mine water into Saltburn Gill in 1999 turned the stream bright orange and smothered the downstream ecology, the issue wasn’t resolved until 2014/15 and required the Coal Authority to construct a £7m treatment plant. A Masters student from the University of Hull has joined our project to report on the quality of […]
(accident: 08 Apr 1910), Aged 26, Platelayer, A full tub had been left standing with one dreg in its wheels on a gradient averaging 1 in 72. Another full tub was being brought along the same road also with one iron dreg in the rear wheel and when it joined the standing tub with considerable […]
7:00 a.m., 1st hour of shift, aged 32, Machineman, While assisting to remove a drilling machine to another place it got off the way, tilted over, and killed him, Buried: Skelton in Cleveland, All Saints on 11 Jun 1894 1894 Mines Inspectors Report (C 7667), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of […]