SKELTON - IN - CLEVELAND
IN HISTORY
1909 ~ 1910
The Halfpenny Bridge.
Built 1868/9. Demolished Dec 17th 1974.
This iron structure crossed Skelton Beck to Saltburn,
It was a toll bridge, hence its name, and about this time the Bridge Keeper was Richard G M Brough, who was a retired Skelton Police Constable.
He lived at the Bridge House with his wife Helena, from Scarborough, and his daughter, Esther, a dressmaker, born in Skelton.
Kelly's Directory of Skelton continued:-
Rushpool Hall - Joseph Walton. MP. D.L. J.P. [Reform and National Liberal clubs London].
Rigwood - Edward Hamilton J.P.
White House - Gilbert B Jackson, Private residence.

NEW SKELTON. Stanghow Lane School - Thomas Rixham, Headmaster.

New Skelton. [Dairy Farm top right.]
Stanghow Lane School - Miss M Fisher, Headmistress.
[Room for 647 children with an average attendance of 229 boys and 210 girls]

Stanghow Lane - Mrs Elizabeth Longstaff, Shopkeeper and Beer.

Infants School - Miss E A North, Headmistress.
[Room for 207 children with an average attendance of 150]

7 William St - Edgar Linford, Hairdresser.
19 William St - John Naisbitt, Boot Repairer.
29 William St - Robert George Seller, Insurance agent.
William St - David Eli Grainger, Boot and shoe dealer.
3 John St - Walter Palmer, insurance agent.
11 John St - William Kay, Grocer.
John St - Rev William Learoyd, MA. Curate.

Skelton Infants School, 1910.
Only child identified is Hope Gott, second from the Left on second row from back.
[Photo kindly contributed by Hope's Grand Daughter, Barbara Dobby of Carlton Miniott, nr Thirsk, N Yorks. She also attended the School in 1959.]
 Dairy Farm - George Black.
Cemetery - William Richardson, Clerk to the Burial Board.

Dec 24th - Local miner records in diary - Paddy White was injured at South Skelton Mines.

1910 - January - Parish Magazine - Mrs Herring desires to thank all parents, friends and teachers for the beautiful gold pendant and chain, also half a dozen dessert spoons she has been presented with, on the occasion of her leaving the Skelton Infant School to undertake the charge of the school at North Skelton.

Girl Guides movement started by Lord Baden Powell.

4th February. The first street lights in Skelton were placed in the High St.

2nd March - The Annual Concert in aid of the Skelton Church Lads' Brigade Camp Fund was held in the Institute.
The Camp this year will be held at Bridlington in June.

7th May - The Death of King Edward VII.
A chill, bronchitis, and heart failure were the three successive steps which in hours brought his all too short reign to an end."
He was succeeded by George V.

13th May. Longacres Mine. Thomas Marshall, a miner aged 39, was killed.
"He was engaged in barring down some stone from the face when another large stone suddenly burst a-way from between two backs, and falling on him inflicted



injuries from which he died in a few hours."

Major Edward Hamilton of Rigwood was elected to the County Council for Skelton North and served until 1931.

3rd August - A Garden Fete and Bazaar was arranged by Mrs Wharton and held in the Castle Grounds.
The object was to provide funds for the preservation of our old Church and Churchyard.

29th October. London Gazette.
A Separate Building, duly certified for religious worship, named WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL, situated at Skelton, in the civil parish of Skelton, in the county of York, North Riding, in Guisborough registration district, was, on the 28th October, 1910, registered for solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to 6th and 7th Wm. IV, c. 85.

The Anglo Saxon cemetery at Hob Hill was excavated.

5 houses and a shop were built in Charlotte St, New Skelton.

10 houses were built for a Mrs Elliot in Boosbeck Rd.
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