SKELTON - IN - CLEVELAND
IN HISTORY

E-MAILED CONTRIBUTIONS AND SKELTON STORIES.
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Page 1. The Well in front of the Whipping Post

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Robert Atterton 1862, Mine Death.
Rock Villa.
First Passenger Train over the Viaduct.

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The Mistakes on the Church War Memorial.
Harker Street, Skelton Green.
The Murder of Daniel Chilvers.

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The First Buses through Skelton.
A Postcard from Skelton - 1914.

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Where are the Skelton Court Rolls ?
In which year were the Miners'Terrace Houses in Skelton built ?
1901 Census - 8 Thomas St and John St, New Skelton.

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Eric Garrett, Skelton's World Class Opera Singer.
Skelton's Blind Coalman.
Allbrooks, 11 Trout Hall Lane.

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A Letter from America.
William Barker, Ironstone Deputy - killed 1st March 1910.
Herbert Lees lost in the wreck of the Samtampa.

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William David Bunning, Skelton's Gamekeeper.
The Harker-Mohun brothers of 9 Boosbeck Rd, Skelton Green.

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How Richard St and William St, North Skelton obtained their names.
A letter from America - Ness Hagg.

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Silks - Souvenir postcards brought home to Skelton from the First World War.

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Corporal Harry Leeks of North Skelton.
Trouthall Farm, 1850 to 1881.

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Guisborough Workhouse 1918 - Wilfred Searle.
Skelton Parish Magazines - 1890's

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William Partridge - 7 William St, North Skelton.
Gill, Young, Emmerson, Wood.

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Skelton School Report from 1868.
Tippet's Chapel, New Skelton.

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Henry Bennison, Born Skelton 1893/4, Killed Carlin How Mine 1940.

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Skelton's Orchestra - 1920s.
Two Rave Reviews.

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Skelton's Patriotic Song Writer.

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Skelton Story of Forbidden Love.

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Louisa Taberner, Brotton and Skelton Fish Shop Magnate.

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Memories of "Tims" Chapel and Wartime Skelton.

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James Rooks. A First World War Wrong - Finally Put Right.

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Macabre Coincidence of Father and Son Deaths on the Railway Line.

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The Skelton Castle Mortgage - in Hock to the Smugglers.

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The North Skelton Hussars.

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New Skelton Mother on Murder Charge. Baby Drowned in the Sea.

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Skelton's Antarctic Hero - Frank Wild CBE.

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The Overseers of the Poor.

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The Ratepayers of Skelton in the 1820's

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How the Ratepayers money was spent - Cash payments, Rents, Clothing etc.

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How the Ratepayers money was spent - Constable, Vestry, Roads etc.

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How the Ratepayers money was spent - Settlement, Apprenticeships, Passengers, the Insane.

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Illegitimacy.

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The Lay Subsidy of 1301. Skelton Taxpayers.

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