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Welcome, I have decided to create this site in remembrance of my Great Great Grandfather Mr. John Snowdon, he was a well-known figure in the community of Lingdale, owning and running the Lingdale Hotel or Tavern which ever you wish to call it, (many people refer to it as SNOWDONS CORNER) along with many other properties. 

I am hoping to gather as much information as possible about the people and history of Lingdale, past & present and allow others to have an insight to how they used to live here in Lingdale North Yorkshire. 
The success of this site will depend upon the amount of material I can get to put into it, I am planning to have pages for all types of events and hoping to include some of the census to allow people to research their family history from Lingdale, as it was a mining village and people came from all over the country to reside here. 
I would appreciate any information from any source, and also any photographs they are willing to allow me appear on this site. 

I can be contacted via email at 

eastclevelandhistory@gmail.com

 

Many Thanks 

Alison Small

 

 

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PLACE NAMES AND THEIR MEANINGS

Lingdale 
Ling is an alternative word for heather. Heather-dale. 

Boosbeck 
This Viking place name means the stream near the Cow shed. Beck was the Viking word for a stream.  1856 Boosbeck was only on the small bridge over the Boos Beck, Boosbeck as we know it was called Kilton. 

Stanghow 
Thought to derive from the Viking Stong-how meaning pole hill. 

Skelton (See Marske by the Sea) 

Skinningrove 
This Viking influenced name is thought to mean Skinners grove or pit. 

Brotton 
This is thought to derive from Brook Ton, the farm near the brook or stream

 

Marske-by-the Sea
Marske-by-the Sea near Redcar and Marske near Richmond are Scandinavian pronunciations of the English word marsh, and were thus settlements near marshy land. Viking influence is demonstrated in these names by the substitution of the English SH sound with the Viking SK. The hardened SK, or SC sounds are found in Viking-influenced place names like Scarborough, Skelton and Skeeby and are quite common in Yorkshire. Such names are rare in County Durham, where SH sounds predominate, but one notable exception is the name of the River Skerne
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Lingdale

 

Extract taken from 'Skelton and its History' by Tom Curnow. 

The population in 1881 was 3,000 and in 1931 was 2,290. 
A school was built in 1876 and Mr Thomas Rixhams was the master, Miss A D Nicholl was the mistress. 
An infants school was built in 1910 and Miss A. Brown was mistress. 

A Congregational Chapel was opened in 1884 at Lingdale cross roads. 
The Primitive Methodist Jubilee Chapel was built in 1897 in Springfield. 
The Brunswick Methodist Chapel was opened in 1874 in Scarth Street. 
The Institute was built in 1911. 

At the time the mine was working, there was a bridge over Claphow Lane, from the mine to the tip, this was erected in 1896. 

The memorial to those who gave their lives in the wars was erected in 1928. Church missions rooms were built 1908. 
There used to be a Salvation Army hut in Scarth Street and is now a garage in Springfield, part of it. 

A Police house was built in 1913. 

In 1889 the Post office was at the bottom of Tyreman Street, and Thomas William Cook was postmaster, F Barrow was the licensee of the Victoria Hotel and Elizabeth Snowdon was licensee at Lingdale Hotel. 

In 1925 Mr Jack Cornforth opened up a petrol station in Lingdale High Street. 

In the year 1900 John Bulmer was the Tinsmith, Rebecca Codling was a dressmaker and lived at 44 High Street, Mrs Croft was a milliner and lived at 103 High Street, John Featherstone was a Bootmaker and lived at 109 High Street, George Lamb, builder lived at 107 High Street and George Langstaff was the Blacksmith. 

William Nicholson was a watchmaker, Bill Potter the local joiner.
The Rev Surtees was curate. Thomas Vivers was an engineer. 
Robert Watson and William Winsor were Butchers. 

Meggy Marshall used to put on a smashing tea at Lockwood Beck Farm in the early part of the century, and I am informed by Mr Peter Dorman that this building was once a pub called 'The Cock'. 

A very well know character, Mr Job Bonas had Claphow farm and in 1888 he was apprenticed to William Readman of Lealholme Bridge as a Blacksmith. He received £2 a year wage, with 2 weeks holiday a year so that he could help his father on the farm. He was formerly a blacksmith at 'Fairy Cross Plain', Fryup, and was also a horse breeder. He would drive a pony and trap to Helmsley to shoe oxen on the Feversham estate. For shodding two oxen he was paid two shillings. He charged two pence each shoe to shoe an ass, three shillings for a new plough and two shillings three pence for 2 sickles. He was a farmer, blacksmith and horse breeder when at Claphow Farm and rode with the Cleveland Hunt when in his 80's. He died at the age of 93 and is buried at Boosbeck Church Cemetery. 

Mr Tom Coatsworth built a salesroom and two shops in the High Street, the salesroom is demolished, but the two shops are still in use by Mr. Thomas Wright. 

Lingdale had a good class jewellers shop in the High Street opposite the Institute. 

Mr George Wedgewood had livery stables at the top of Dixon Street and provided coaches and horses for weddings and funerals. The horses used to have lovely shining coats and wore brasses, ear pieces , polished leathers. The Hearse was a lovely piece of furniture, nearly all glass with polished brass and wood, it was really more like going to out in style those days. Of course progress of motor vehicles changed all this and Mr. Wedgewood eventually changed to taxis and cars. 

Dancing was very popular, there was a dance hall above the Lingdale Hotel, the Institute and Mr Colbeck had a hall at the bottom of Wilkinson Street. Some quite good shows came to the Institute. The 'Spa' at Whitby was a very popular place for dancing and all top dance bands came here at one time. You could catch the train from Boosbeck on a Saturday night special to Whitby for 10 pence return. 

Farmers would bring their produce to the village by horse and cart selling cheese, cream, curd, butter, rabbits, eggs etc. 

The milkman carried a pail and two measures, one for a pint and one for half pint, and ladled the milk into a jug or bowl, he would call twice a day. 

Lingdale 1913

 

Taken from Kelly's North & East Riding of Yorkshire Directory 1913 

Lingdale is a mining village in this parish, 2 miles south-south-east from Skelton and 4 1/2 miles east from Guisborough. A church Mission Room was built in 1908, at a cost of £260, and will seat 150 persons. Here is a Congregational chapel, erected in 1880, a Primitive Methodist Chapel, a Wesleyan Chapel and a Christian Mission. An Institute was erected here in 1912 at a cost of £1,800, the greater part of which was given by Messers. Pease and Partners Limited; it contains reading, games and billiard rooms, baths and a large concert hall. The business of a branch of the Yorkshire Penny Bank here is transacted on Monday evenings. 
Post, M.O.& T. Office - William Ernest Kingston, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Boosbeck, Yorks at 7.25 a.m. & 5.10 p.m.& 7 p.m.; dispatched at 9.50 a.m. & 4.45 & 8 p.m.; no delivery or dispatch on Sundays. Wall Letter box, High Street, cleared at 4.40 & 8.15 p.m.. 
Public Elementary Schools (Boys, Girls and infants), erected in 1876 for 525 children; an infants school was added in 1911, for 200 children; average attendance 190 boys, 186 girls & 143 infants; James North, master. Miss Hilda Wilson Mistress; Miss S. White, infants mistress. 

[Information available from Skelton Library)

 

 

Bulmers Directory 1890

Stanghow Township

Letter box at Charltons - cleared at 5.45 and at Margrove Park 5.35. 

Armstrong, William Henry - Under Manager at South Skelton Mine. 

Bainbridge, John, Farmer, Ayesdale Gate Farm. 

Barr, Miss Annie, Provision Dealer, Charltons Cottages. 

Baraclough, Miss Martha, School Mistress, Margrove Park. 

Brown, Ed Charlton, Clerk, Charlton Cottages. 

Dale, William, Farmer, Margrove Park. 

Farndale, Martin, Farmer, Tidkinhowe Farm. 

Farrow, Mrs Elizabeth, Dressmaker, Charltons Cottages. 

House, John, Manager South Skelton Mine. 

Langstaff, John, Farmer, Stanghow. 

Lynas, Ralph, Farmer, Cumbank. 

Marley, Thomas, Butcher, Charltons Cottages. 

Powell, William, Manager, Carrs Tillery, Slapewath. 

Scarth, Mrs Elizabeth, Cowhouse, Stanghow. 

Scarth, Mr Isaac, The Hall. 

Storey, Henry, vict. Fox and Hounds - Slapewath. 

Tarbit, George, Mechanical Engineer, South Skelton Mine. 
83 High Street. 

Tate, John, Mining Engineer , Spa Mine, Fancy Cottage. 

Thompson, James, Overman, Margrove Park. 

John, Farmer, Hollin Hill. 

(Information available from Skelton Library)

 

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