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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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., Hight 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
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Boosbeck High Street
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This photograph was taken in Boosbeck High Street
Year unknown
Kindly contributed by Anne Breeze (nee Knight).
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Boosbeck School
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Taken about mid 1920's
Roland Robinson who lived at 9 Queen Street Boosbeck is the boy second from the
left in the back row. Unfortunately we don't know anyone else in this photo.
Not sure of the date - he was born in 1913 and may be about 12 or so which would make the photo around 1925/26.
Photograph and information kindly contributed by Margaret O'Shea.
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Miners soup kitchen
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Miners soup kitchen at Boosbeck in 1920s.
The man in the centre of the back row was Jimmy Peel and the young lad with the flat cap two away from him on the right of the photo was his son Harry who was killed in an accident in the mines.
I was told that Jimmy's wife Alice (nee Cubbit) is the lady second from the right in the front row.
My grandmother Sarah Robinson (nee Armstrong) is third from the left in the front row in the dark dress with the white collar.
I should imagine her husband George Robinson who was a mines deputy could be also in the photo but unfortunately I don't know which he is.
If the photo WAS taken in 1922 then he would have been 57/58 years old which would narrow the field. For some reason the men are wearing button holes? I wonder if this photo was perhaps taken for a newspaper or some other publication. There were obviously several photos taken on this day as other photos (although not this one) were published in the Boosbeck Diary 2000.
Photograph and information kindly contributed by Margaret O'Shea.
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Roland & Sarah Robinson (nee Armstrong)
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Roland with his beloved "Mam" Sarah Robinson (nee Armstrong), outside her home at 9 Queen Street Boosbeck - probably around 1940. Sarah's father was Isaac Armstrong who was born in Moorsholm but later moved to Guisborough where he had a tailoring business in Westgate.
From the 1901 census Roland had an uncle James Wilson Robinson and two cousins (Robert and James) who were living at 45 Railway Terrace, Brotton. Also another cousin Annie was married to John Wood (with a daughter Mary Elizabeth Wood) and living at 23 Carney Street Boosbeck. There was also another uncle Robert and a cousin Mary living in Moorsholm.
Photograph and information kindly contributed by Margaret O'Shea.
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Roland Armstrong Robinson
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Photograph and information kindly contributed by Margaret O'Shea.
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Boosbeck
Lingdale is closely neighboured by the village of Boosbeck.
As at Lingdale there is a wide variety of shops in the High Street, an Institute, several clubs and Anglican and Non Conformist Churches.
Information available from Skelton Library
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Memorial to Miners of Boosbeck (2008)
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Boosbeck landmark
A LASTING memorial to the mining history of an East Cleveland village has been unveiled.
Former Boro star Craig Hignett, who is now a coach at the club’s youth academy, attended the Boosbeck ceremony with his coaching colleague Paul Jenkins to pull the curtain off the two ton sandstone monolith.
The landmark in Boosbeck is adorned with 21 individual clay tiles which were designed and handcrafted by pupils from Lockwood Primary School. The pupils were asked to create something that illustrated the village’s mining history. The youngsters celebrated the creation by dressing up as miners and marching from their school to the site of the sculpture on The Green.
Among those attending the unveiling were the village’s oldest former miner Laurence Barker.
The 88-year-old said: “It looks very nice. I think everyone involved has done a magnificent job.”
The sculpture, which measures 1.2m high and 1.4m wide, was crafted by Teesdale stonemason Phil Townsend and cost just under £4,500. The majority of the cash was raised by Boosbeck ward parish councillors Clive and Jean Maidens and Kath Jackson. Builders George Wimpey also donated £500.
Cllr Jackson said: “When we gave the children the job of creating the tiles in the mining theme we did not expect them to be so creative. Their efforts have really paid off and given Boosbeck a special landmark.”
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Boosbeck Tulips Sword dancing team
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article reads:
Adam Green, 74 of Boosbeck, had many memories of the grim depression days between the two wars.
The East Cleveland district still had its famous sword dance teams, but Mr. Green recalled several villages had their own team and the men walked to various places, often miles in a day to dance, in the hope that they would be given a copper or two.
To revive memories he loaned the photograph, taken he believes in the 1930's, of the Boosbeck Tulips, after winning the trophy at Newcastle St. James Hall with their display of the Yorkshire Long sword dance.
In addition to the team members and the accompanist, each team was accompanied by "an old man and an old woman" in the shape of two men who dressed up in odd pieces of clothing.
Left to right on the photograph:
Bobby Rice, Tommy Green, Jack Armstrong, Frank Marsay, Will Marsay, Walter Hodgson, Adam Green, Arthur Johnson.
The man holding the cup is Tommy Davison and the accompanist is Arthur Marshall a melodian player, who played for many successful sword dance groups.
Does anyone have a better copy of this photograph or any other photographs of the Boosbeck Tulips Sword Dance team?
Newspaper cutting and information kindly contributed by Julie Riddiough.
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