Show on map The Hob on the Hill is an iron age burial mound, opened by Canon Atkinson in 1863. It now marks the boundary of the Guisborough, Lockwood and Commondale parishes.
RC 1798 is inscribed on one side, which relates to landowner Robert Chalenor.
Show on map The sweetshop on Milton Street must be getting a new sign, removal of the old one has revealed a previous life as a fishmongers.
A second sign for Saltburn Fisheries is also visible.
Many thanks to Simon Whitlock for the photos.
Show on map This remote war memorial carries the following inscription
For Remembrance Guardsmen Robbie Leggott killed in action 1916 Alf Cockerill died of wounds 1920 duty 1914.
Some research was done on Rootchat which follows :-
In 1914 they both went to London together and joined the Grenadier Guards. Robert Leggott lied about his age, he was only 17. He was killed in 1916 on the Somme aged 19 an his bodied never found. His name is on the Thiepval Memorial in Flanders. In July 1916 the 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards were holding trenches near Ypres. They were attacks on both sides of their position resulting in close quarter fighting and shelling. There was also sniper activity. In these actions Alfred Cockerill was wounded in the head. Alf was sent home. Back in UK, he was declare unfit for any futher duty. His head wound had serious damaged him. He now had epilepsy and would never return to the moors. He was one of the many head injuries and shellshock cases places in mental hospitals. He was sent to the Chalfont Colony opened 1894 by The National Society for the Employment of Epileptics, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire. He spent four years there, dying at the Epilepsia Colony on 11th August 1920 of Epilepsy and Meningitis.
Show on map The North Eastern Railways chief architect William Peachey designed the Albert Bridge in 1877.
Over the years it low clearance has peeled many a roof off double-decker buses.
Show on map As always whenever I post a stench pipe, people tell me about more of them !
This example is peeking out of bushes to the side of Sandy Flatts Lane.
Getting to the base of it is very tricky, but one torn t-shirt and a lot of scratches later, here you are !
Show on map This very fine example of a stench pipe stands on Keith Road.
Its probably one of the most complete in the area and has a lot of nice features for something so practical.
Halfway up is a band with rose embalms (possibly a Yorkshire rose?)
The top still features a studded band, almost like a crown.
Show on map After month of distant formal gardens, its time to get back to a corner stone of the site, Redcar Stench Pipes !
This one is in the alley between Muriel Street and Dene Grove.
Its an identical design to the complete one in Laburnum Road. Made by Adams of York
