Ironstone mining was an extremely hazardous occupation, with a shocking number of fatalities. With the added trauma of widows and children potentially losing their homes because it belonged to the mining company. Many miners have no headstones, they have either been lost or perhaps couldn’t be afforded in the first place, so I thought it […]
This miners payslip from 26th October 1889 was recently shared with me by Howard Wilson of the Skelton History Group, it’s for a William Butters who originated from Tattersall Lincolnshire before coming to New Marske to be an Ironstone Miner. Notice that the miner has to pay for his own Gunpowder, House Rent and Doctor […]
Ruston and Hornsby model LBU’s first appeared in Cleveland at Kilton Mine in 1952 to replace horses. By September 1954 the last horses had also left North Skelton, where these photos were taken in 1958. These photos appear to show a later modification to add a compressed air powered starter to an engine.