Show on map This sign for Vansittart Terrace sits on what is now Coatham Road
Coatham Road came into existance around 1935 when Portland, Victoria, Cleveland, Bentinck, Vansittart and Theresa Terraces were combined.
Henry Vansittart (10 July 1784 – 22 April 1848) married Teresa Newcomen the widow of Sir Charles Turner and gained Turner’s Kirkleatham estate.
Show on map These two cottages on Lilac Grove carry plaques for “NER Cottage Homes” 
The ‘North Eastern Railway Cottage Homes and Benefit Fund was formed in 1919 and funded by a deduction for railway workers wages, presumable houses at that time were only for railwaymen.
Despite being neighbours one was built in 1925 and the other in 1926 so are relatively early in the organisations existence.
The charity still exists today and is known as the Railway Housing Association which provides affordable rented homes for anyone.
Show on map Oxgang Bridge was on what is now Plantation Road and is marked on every Ordnance Survey map since the first edition, it is where Roger Dyke / West Dyke passes under the road between Marske and Kirkleatham.
I took these photos on an evening in 2007 in poor light and always intended to get better photo and find out something more about the bridge, at this point just the sides of the bridge were visible.
Since that time the side have also been removed leaving no trace of the bridge, although presumably the rest of the structure is still buried under the road.
Also of interest is the Fever Hospital and mortuary just upstream which is now the site of the Grewgrass Lodges
Show on map The plan below dates from 1917 and shows the proposed layout of the new garden city of Dormanton (known to us now as Dormanstown)
Although the basic layout of crescents around the green and shops around Ennis Square is correct, there are a lot of differences to how it actually turned out. A major one being at road to a proposed new railway station which was never built and direct footpaths across the marsh to Warrenby and the Redcar Ironworks. Also locations marked such as a hospital, chapel, library and technical school that I don’t think ever existed.
The first wave of building actually took place between 1917 and 1920, a light railway existed direct from the works to bring in materials, which can still be seen on earlier OS maps.
Show on map There are two sets of navigation lights in Redcar that are used to guide boats through the rocks.
The first set are on the Esplanade opposite the new Hub building and above Marks and Spencer. Knows as the Lade Lights, when aligned these mark the safe path between ‘High Stones’ and ‘The Flashes’
The second set are at either end of King Street, one on the Esplanade and one in the High Street. When aligned these mark the ‘Luffway’ a gap between the ‘West Scar’ and ‘Salt Scar’ rocks.
Many thanks to Ray at Redcar Coastwatch for the information.
Show on map The Police Station in Redcar dates from 1910 and stopped being used in November 2006 when a new HQ opened at Kirkleatham, with a small office on Lord Street, it has since been converted into houses.
The railing over the entrance spell out NRCC, possibly North Riding County Council or Constabulary ?
The old court house to the rear of the police station has also been converted.
Show on map The school is one of the few remaining buildings of the village of Warrenby which was demolished in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
It is currently in use by a seafood company.
Show on map This sign is a little odd as I can’t imagine how you could see it apart from on a double-decker bus as its not easily visible from ground level.
It certainly says “Grays” but i’m unsure of the rest, the word below seems to be “Cash”, so perhaps “Cash & Carry” but the next building seems to have gone as well.
Could it be related to the Grays tobacconists that was once in Redcar ?
Any suggestions are always welcome.
Show on map St Marys was built in 1953 and was only open until 1978 as most of Warrenby was depopulated and demolished by 1983.
Surprisingly even in the 1970s many houses here were without electricity, a bathroom or inside toilets.
The building is currently in use as a car repair workshop.
Show on map The old Saltscar School was demolished in March / April 2012.
The buildings only dated from 1960-63 but needed £1.7m to bring them back into use.
The site started life as Sir William Turners Grammar School, became Saltscar in 1975 which lasted until 1987 when it merged with Westfield to become West Redcar, although the two top years finished off here until 1989, finally in later years it was the Redcar Education Development Centre. The Architect was Julian Leatheart and Sons of London who specialised in cinemas.
Mike Drewery kindly provided me with this great set of photos of the demolition and some internal shots.
The floor of the gym was apparently of excellent quality.
