Show on map 3rd of a series of 11 plaques that were erected some years ago by Arts UK to mark the areas ironstone history.
The 1760 Enclosure Act took away common grazing land and allotments (no bigger than a quarter of an acre) were provided in compensation. In 1862 the local mining company provided workers with pig pens as well as allotments.
Show on map A series of plaques were erected some years ago by Arts UK to mark the areas ironstone history.
“About to begin an early shift, a miner accidentally set his blasting powder off and wrecked his home near here. After that no miners were allowed to store their blasting powder at home.”
Show on map A series of plaques were erected some years ago by Arts UK to mark the areas ironstone history.
“By 1871 the local mining company forbade spitting, swearing and drinking both at work and at home and employed a policeman to enforce these rules. Every payday he spent the evening trying to catch miners sneaking back from the pubs in Marske”
Pease & Partners were Quakers hence the no-drinking rules in their village.
Show on map On the wall of its 1966 replacement can be found some original stonework from the New Marske Institute.
The institute was built for the local ironstone miners by the Pease family, they were Quakers with a temperance policy, so no alcohol was available until 1925 after the mine closed.
It opened on August 5th 1876 and offered a reading room, library, billiard, smoking room and a Quoits pitch. Subscription was one shilling per quarter.
Some interesting photos of the original can be found on the Communigate site
Show on map An ironstone tramway between the Chalenor mines near Guisborough and the Eston mines was built in 1914 when the underground link was severed.
Several traces of this remain, including this culvert for Moordale Beck with the 1914 date carved into the arch.
The arching has been strengthened a long time ago as the two lower tubes both resemble riveted boiler pipes.
Show on map This decorative tower was designed by Walter Brierley 
The inscription records the fact that Sir Hugh Bell built the tower in 1915 to supply water to Arncliffe and Rounton. The Bell family being heavily involved in iron and steel making in Teesside.
Dr Tony Power tells me George Walker Milburn carved the Coat of Arms over the entrance door to the Tower in 1915, for Sir Hugh Bell, at a cost of £17 0. 0.
In front the doorway are some colored stones which spell out “H&FB 1915” which are the initials of Sir Hugh Bell and his wife Florence
Show on map Bolckow and Vaughan operated a shallow mine between 1914 and 1920 in a small pocket of isolated ironstone.
The standing building is an electrical substation, while a totally collapsed and flooded drift entrance can be found next to it.
Show on map A planter for flowers and a bench are placed close to the location of the mine in Dunsdale (which was actually known at the Kirkleatham mine)
The mine was actually a drift mine so wouldn’t have had the head-frame suggested for a shaft mine, but its good the history is remembered.
The bench depicts a miners lamp.
The actual entrance to the mine is only about 100m SE in the woods, but its collapsed just a few meters inside.
Show on map Originally an alum shale quarry between 1776 and 1805.
In 1929 an aerial ropeway was installed to dump waste from the Spa Woods ironstone mine into the quarry, it was dismantled 1933-34 and moved to Upton Colliery.
The area is now heavily wooded so its difficult to interpret which spoil belongs to which phase.
Show on map This mosaic of a miner and horse was unveiled at the Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum on Wednesday June 22nd 2011.
The mosaic is the work of Derek Mosey & Helen Gaunt with volunteers from the museum, the people of Skinningrove and children from Whitecliffe Primary School. Derek and Helen also made the Skinningrove Story Wall