A little information about Boosbeck

 

Taken from Skelton and its history. 
Written by Tom Curnow 

St Aidan's Church was built in 1900 of stone, of the 12th Century style, with chancel, nave, trancept, west porch with turret-2 bells. The site was given by W.H.A.Wharton Esq. Living a vicarage. The cemetery was completed in 1931. Boosbeck has a primitive Methodist Chapel built 1877. The School was built in 1881 and enlarged 1894, and a school house added in 1901. A new school has since been built. 

There are two licensed premises, the 'Boosbeck Hotel' and the 'Station Hotel'. The Institute was built in 1901 and the vicarage in 1904. Plans to build the 'Electric Empire Picture Hall' were passed in 1911. An old wooden hut near the railway station was built as a 'Fish House' in 1909. In 1912-13 12 houses were erected in Queen Street. A petrol station was built for Mr. James Ranson 1925. 10 old peoples bungalows were built in 1926-7 for miners - Wharton Place. 
 

 

Place names & their meanings

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. 

 

 

Diary of a Cleveland Miner

 

The diary of an old Cleveland miner, Mr William ROWBOTTOM of Boosbeck, who died in 1927, has come to light and we publish it below in the hope that it will be of interest to readers, particularly the older generations familiar with life in Cleveland in the days of long before the War. 
The Late Mr. Rowbottom's diary is a neatly kept document with the dates in Red and the various items all neatly ruled off. It must have been a labour of love to this old Cleveland Miner whose economy of words in recording incidents is noteworthy. A great deal of the diary, records the deaths of friends, there are no exciting things, but then the life of a miner in a tiny community before the days of buses and pictures etc. was not likely to contain such things. Nevertheless it records the real stuff of life, births, marriages and deaths, which after all are the most important things! 
 

Link to page, please have a look

 

 

 

Boosbeck with Moorsholm 1913

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

BOOSBECK WITH MOORSHOLM form an ecclesiastical parish and mining district, with a station on the Guisborough and Saltburn branch of the North Eastern Railway, 250 miles from London, 18 3/4 from Whitby and 4 from Saltburn, in the Cleveland division of the riding, eastern division of Langbaurgh liberty, petty sessional division of Langbaurgh East, Guisborough union, county court district of Stokesley, rural deanery of Middlesbrough, archdeaconry of Cleveland and diocese of York. 
It is governed by the Skelton and Brotton Urban district Council. The ecclesiastical parish was formed Dec 13, 1901 from Skelton. The church of St. Aidan, consecrated 29 Oct. 1901 is a cruciform building of stone in the Norman style, erected in 1900, from designs by Messers. Hicks and Charlwood, architects, at a cost of £4,000 and consists of a chancel, nave, transepts, west porch and a turret containing one bell: there are 410 sittings. The site for the church and church yard was given by W.H.A. Wharton esq. of Skelton Castle, and the site for the vicarage by the late R.P Petch esq.: a vicarage house was erected in 1904, at a cost of £1,900; the register dates from the year 1901. The living is a vicarage net yearly value £270, with residence in the gift of the Archbishop of York, and held since 1902 by the Rev. Arthur Fredrick Chappell, of St Aidan's. Here is an institute for mutual improvement, is also let for concerts & c. The rateable value and population is included in Skelton parish. The population of the ecclesiastical parish in 1911 was 5,928. 
Post & M.O. office, Boosbeck (letters should have Yorks added). Jas. Milligan, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive at 7.25 a.m. & 5.10 p.m. (callers only) & 7 p.m.; dispatched 10 a.m. & 5 & *.40 p.m.; no dispatch or delivery on Sundays. Lingdale is the nearest telegraph office, 1 mile distant, for delivery & the railway station for collection of telegrams, which is open for 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on week days only. 

Schools 
Public Elementary School, Boosbeck (mixed and infants) erected in 1881 for 221 children & enlarged in 1894 for 350 children; average attendance 316; Thomas Gill, master. 

Boosbeck Railway Station, John Andrew Thompson, station master, Boosbeck. 

(transcribed by Administrator, available at Skelton Library)

 

 

Commercial Businesses in 1913

Chappell Rev. Arth. Fredk. Vicarage 

Early closing day, Wednesday. 
Annear David, Royal Liver Insurance agent, 37 Carney Street. 

Atkin Henry, newsagent, High Street. 

Bell William, shopkeeper, 2 High Street. 

Bendelow Robert, farmer, Rokeley house. 

Bolckow, Vaughan & Co Limited (South Skelton Ironstone Mines. 
Abraham Gray, Manager 

Boosbeck Theatres Limited, (William, Moore sec,) 7 High Street. 

Boyes Charles, butcher, 2 Gerrie Street. 

Colley Sarah Jane, (Miss) shop-keeper, 53 High Street. 

Davison Thos. fried fish dir. High Street. 

Duckering James H., Greengrocer, 22 High Street. 

Elliot Dorothy (Mrs.) Station Hotel, High Street. 

Heward William, commission agent, 24 Carney Street. 

Hurn Herbert, hairdresser, High Street. 

Hutton Thos. Drpr. 28 & 30 High Street. 

London Joint Stock Bank Ltd. (sub-branch) 
Joseph Hutchinson, manager. 
open Mon 3.30 to 4.30 p.m., High Street; 
draw on head office, 5 Princes Street, London EC. 

McMillan Thos. Butcher, 16 Carney Street. 

Marlborough Joseph, Farmer, Hollywell Farm. 

Milligan James, draper, Post Office. 

National Provincial Bank of England Limited (sub branch). 
Alfred Elliff, manager. 
open Wed 10.30 a.m. to 1 p.m., 46 High Street; draw on head office, 15 Bishopgate, London. 

Nixon Wm. grocer, 9 Fenton Street. 

Peirson John, shopkeeper, 35 Gerrie Street. 

Perrow John, High Street. 

Rushby A. & Son, grocers, High Street. 

Russell Jacob (Mrs.) news-agent, 29 High Street. 

Skelton Co-operative Society Limited 
William Gardiner, manager. 

Snowdon George Ernest, Commercial Hotel. 

Tuck Simon, grocer, 37 High Street. 

Wilks William, joiner, 36 High Street. 

Wright William, shoe maker 24 High Street. 

Yorkshire Penny Bank Ltd. 
Thomas Gill, actuary; open Monday evenings from 6 to 7 at the School