The Village Hall on Ormesby Bank looks a little worse for wear, with all its windows filled in.
The hall stoods almost alone on the 1953 map, with just a few properties of the subsequent housing estates on Ormesby Bank in place.
It does seem to still be in use as a boxing club with the photo below showing the semi-circular window seen from outside.
Show on map Orme The Viking is part of the Ormesby Beck landscaping project and was unveiled on April 30th 2012.
Orme being a viking word for serpent or dragon and the suffix “by” being common locally for a viking dwelling place.
Pupils at Berwick Hills Primary School designed the statue, outfit and weapons, and also the dragon seating.
Show on map St Cuthberts was originally a school donated to the village by Elizabeth Caroline Brown of Ormesby House in 1904, later a community centre it was demolished around 2006-2007.
The new building incorporates the original date stone of the school as well as the original steeple.
Show on map This sundial is dated 1776 and carries the motto “”Ut Hora Sic Vita” which is apparently quite common amongst sundials, translating as “As is the hour, so is the life” or “Life is as an hour”
Sundial Row was originally a terrace of Almshouses.
Show on map Although partially obscured at the moment the plaque reads.
THIS PUBLICK SCHOOLHOUSE WAS ERECTED IN THE YEAR 1744 AND REBUILT IN 1773.
The building has many scar of older windows and doors
Show on map What is now a cross outside Ormesby House was once a lamp in Ormesby High Street
The first inscription states :-
“THIS LAMP WAS ERECTED TO COMMEMORATE THE DIAMOND JUBILEE OF HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA BY ELIZABETH CAROLINE BROWN OF ORMESBY HOUSE AD 1897”
The later inscription states :-
“THE CROSS ERECTED 1967 REPLACES THE LAMP REFERRED TO WHICH WAS DAMAGED BEYOND REPAIR WHEN THIS MEMORIAL WAS REMOVED FROM ITS ORIGINAL SITE”
Elizabeth Caroline Brown was a local benefactor responsible for a number of buildings such as the church Lych Gate through which is her impressive grave.
