SKELTON - IN - CLEVELAND
IN HISTORY
1895

Iron tombstone, New Skelton Cemetery.
1895 - 7th January. South Skelton Mine, William Barker, a deputy aged 44 was killed.
"While preparing to set some timber a fall of roof took place." He was buried at Skelton under an iron tombstone.

2nd March - Parish Magazine - A deputation consisting of Messrs R W Stevenson, William Brown, W B Robinson and Joseph Crouch, on behalf of subscribers, waited upon the Rev F Kennedy on Saturday to present him with a testimonial, a purse of gold, on his leaving Skelton.

May - We were glad to hear the other day that our new Urban District Council had ordered certain steps to be taken with a view to local improvements.
Amongst the rest, enquiries as to cost of flagging the footpath in front of the Wharton Arms and asphalting other footpaths, to say nothing of a much desired bridge over the Skelton Beck, near the railway viaduct.

18th July. London Gazette. Registration of Births and Deaths.
Notice is hereby given that in pursuance of the provisions of the twenty-first section of an Act passed in the thirty-eighth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, entitled "The Births and Deaths Registration, Act, 1874," I, Sir Brydges Powell Henniker, Bart., Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England, have,, with the sanction of the Local Government Board, ordered and declared that on and after the 1st day. of August next, Marske, Sub-District of Guisborough Registration District, as now constituted, shall be sub-divided, and that Skelton. Stanghow, Upleatham,and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Civil Parishes; shall be constituted a separate Registration, Sub- District-,'to be called and known as Skelton Sub- District.
General Register Office, Somerset House, London.
27th July - North Skelton -
The Ninth Exhibition by the Horticultural Society was held.
Besides plants, cut flowers, fruit and vegetables, a large number prizes were given for different articles of ladies' work, freehand drawing, carving, fretwork and penmanship.
There were also several classes of poultry, rabbits etc.

18th August - A Special Service was held for members of the Parent's Union.
An address was given by the Rector on the responsibilities of parents towards their children in training and educating them both by word and example.
The importance of beginning, very early, to form the character of a child was insisted upon.
The necessity for home influence of the right sort.
It is strange that so many parents who love their children and are anxious that they should do well, are satisfied to leave their moral training to the schools and churches, or anybody, without themselves enquiring how it is being done or even if it is being done at all.
shewing as much care as the gardener who neither weeds his garden nor turns over the soil and leaves anybody to scatter in any kind of seed and yet expects, somehow, to find a satisfactory crop at harvest time.
The size of the congregation was a significant hint of the indifference with which the subject is treated.
One might have expected that the Church would be crowded out, but it wasn't.
Sunday School Attendance Prize, A Bible.
Thomas Rooks was aged about 7 and lived at 8 Thomas St, New Skelton.
He fought in the First World War and survived.
This image and others on this site have been kindly donated by his son, Owen.
25th August - The Convalescent Home Committee held a Church Parade. Meeting at the Lodge Room they proceeded to Dr Merryweather's, corner of Boosbeck Rd, where they met the Boosbeck brethren.

Accompanied by Skelton Brass Band and members of the Clubs in full regalia they marched via the High Green, Park Street and up the High St to the Parish Church, collecting on the way.
After the service New Skelton and North Skelton were visited and contribution solicited.

October - Parish Mag - Mr Batty, the librarian of the Sunday School Libary, after arranging the old books and purchasing ten pounds worth of new ones, proposes to open it to the children of our Sunday Schools on December 1st.

21st December - The Rectory Club finished up its seventh year of existence,
It has experienced a very heavy year in sick calls having paid out to members a total of £124 16s 4d.

Each year prizes were given for attendance at the Sunday Schools.
Skelton and New Skelton boys went to the Drill Hall at the bottom of Green Road.
The girls attended the Infant School.
North Skelton boys and girls had their own.
A double first was awarded to those who never once missed attending in the morning and again in the afternoon.
A first class prize to those who made 98 attendances or more.
Marks were deducted for bad behaviour.
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