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![]() Standing, left to right - Bill Varty, overman; John Oliver, overman; George Covell, deputy; John Johnson, deputy; Robert Carver, deputy; George Watson, undermanager; Scott Coates, pipefitter; Seated - Levi Faulkes, deputy; Charlie Clark, deputy; Robert Slater, deputy; Dan Chilvers, deputy; John Lightburn, deputy; Jack Downey, overman; John Clayton, foreman blacksmith. For more information on Skelton Park Pit, click here. | 1886 - A local parish magazine reported:-
"The storm which commenced with a fall of snow on January 7th, may be said to have continued without intermission until
the 17th March. Skelton is declared a rectory and the new rector is the Rev Robert James Ellis of St John's College, Cambridge.
27th Jan. The following stood for election to stood for election to Skelton and Stanghow School Board. |
![]() William Henry Anthony Wharton 1859 - 1938 |
![]() Rector of Skelton, 1886 - 1911. |
Mrs Charlotte Wharton, of Skelton Castle. William H A Wharton became the master of Cleveland Foxhounds John Charlton's book "Twelve Packs of Hounds" records - The season of 1870 the Hounds were hunted by Mr Watson Dixon, the hon. secretary to the hunt, and then Mr JT Wharton, of Skelton Castle, became master.
Mr Wharton resigned at the end of his third season and was succeeded by Mr RAHT Newcomen, of Kirkleatham Hall, who
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Mr John Proud of Yearby, then accepted the mastership, and retained it until 1886, when he resigned. Mr WHA Wharton (son of Mr JT Wharton, who had previously been master of the “Hurworth,”) then took them and is now master and hunts the Hounds.
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![]() Sketches by John Charlton - "Twelve Packs of Hounds". |
20th Feb. Priscilla Martin of North Skelton fined 10 shillings at Guisborough Police Court for stealing two shillings
worth of beef from George Robson's shop [butchers, 2 Boosbeck Rd]. 10 Apr. John Dixon, a hop and provision merchant, of Skelton, was examined in Stockton Bankruptcy Court with losses of £9,061 10s 9d. Adjourned.
1887 - Building of Skelton Green School at top of Skelton bank.
1888 -
21 January - Death at his residence in Algiers of mineowner John Bell, aged 70, of Rushpool Hall, Skelton. |
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Skelton Church Parish Magazine began publication.
10 May. Longacres Mine. William Hollingsworth was killed. 1889 - First elections for County Councils. Prior to this Education, provision for the poor, public health etc had been the responsibility of local Boards. |
![]() 19 Carriages at twopence, 2 Carts at fourpence means that there must have been 128 pedestrians at one halfpenny to make up the total day's receipts to 8 shillings and sixpence. |
Colonel William Henry Wharton was Skelton's representative on the new Council. The North Riding of Yorkshire had 202 police officers.
26 April. Daniel Clemmit, a miner aged 53, was killed in Skelton Shaft Mine. 4th Dec. Thomas Snaith, deputy overman in mines, was sentenced to six weeks in prison with hard labour for embezzling money from the Skelton Cooperative Society. 24th Dec. George Beattie was assaulted by James Mitchell, who hit him on the head with a lamp while on the way from N Skelton to Park Pit.
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William George Tate of the Green Inn was killed when he fell from his horse while out Hunting. The Diary of the old Cleveland miner, William Rowbottom of Boosbeck, quoted many times in these pages, records this occurred on the 16th of December 1888.
William, born the 1st Feb 1852 was the son of Thomas Tate and Harriett Andrew. Middlesbrough Football Club founded, to grow, over the coming years, into a great centre of this area's tribal instinct.
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