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A Piece on Lingdale by Susan Griffiths
The following was originally written as a project submitted to the University of Teesside in 1993, into the nature and extent of paternalism in Lingdale from 1871 - c.1900.
All primary source material was from the Teesside Archives in Middlesbrough.
The first reference to the village was found on an approved plan of streets from 1872. The potential of the site was obviously recognised from the beginning as can be seen from the following piece, which appeared on the plan.
"The advantage of this property is that besides being close to Messer's Pease's mining works it lays at the cross roads leading to Stanghow, Moorsholm and Castleton on the South, Kilton and Lofthouse on the East to Boosbeck and Skelton on the North and this is the centre of what will shortly become on of the greatest mining districts of Cleveland.
The Streets were to be built on land owned by Mr John Dixon, situated between the two existing main roads, with streets filling in the land behind. Other than houses there does not seem to be any plans to include any other type of buildings. When the plan is compared with the two 1894 ordinance survey maps it can be seen that the centre of the village developed much as planned, the exception being the inclusion of the village school in 1876 on the site of one of the streets. One of the planned streets (Davidson Street) did not emerge until after 1894 but further houses were built along and behind the main road.
As has already been stated the original streets were built on land owned by Mr Dixon, a local businessman. It would appear from several of the planning applications that many of the houses built on Dixon's land was done by Mr Emanuel Elmer. As well as being instrumental in the building of the original houses, Elmer seems to have financed the expansion of the village with the building of at least one further street.
Three streets (Wilson, Wilkinson and Tyreman) further away from the original centre of the village were built by a local farmer / businessman on land he owned, adjacent to his farmhouse. One planning application shows two streets un-named but probably Coral Street and North Terrace, being listed as Building Society Property.
At a later date the names of owners have been added to the 1872 plan and although it does not give all or indicates which were owner occupied, it does give some diversity of ownership. Many of the planning applications, which were viewed, were owners wanting to alter houses - make them into retail premises - or asking permission to add stables.
As well as looking at the physical development of the village my project also looked at the range of occupations carried out by the population of the village. The following statistics all come from the 1881 census, the first one on which the village appears.
Of the 661 people in Lingdale, who were in paid employment, 488 of them were employed in Ironstone mining, occupations ranging from miners to shale pickers. Although the white-collar section is not large, there is a diversity within it from clerks to the village policeman to the teachers at the local school. The retail section is relatively large, 41 people being employed in one capacity or another ranging from the owners of the butchers to general servants. As well as the relatively large retail section there was also a number of crafts / tradesmen in the village. Many will already have been noted in the retail section and the majority of the blacksmiths would have worked within the mining industry, but even taking this duplication into account this still means that 30 people were employed in one trade or another. There were also those involved in the building trade - the joiners, bricklayers and stonemasons - there was a brewer and a watchmaker, even a photographer.
The diversity of occupations is continued in the 'General section': this category has been further broken down with sections for agriculture, domestic service and transport. With the domestic service section the term 'housekeeper' is very ambiguous; in some instances it meant what is generally known as a housekeeper, a paid servant, in other cases it was a relative of the head of the household, a sister or niece. In other cases a wife would put down her occupation as a housekeeper and on other occasions a widowed woman with a family would say she was a housekeeper. Of the 31 listed as housekeepers, seven were servants, fourteen were relatives and ten were heads of households. Combine this ambiguity with the small number of women putting down any occupation and it gives some indication as to the way women were viewed, although it can be seen that there were some occupations from women ranging from the school teachers down through the tailoress to the school cleaners.
There is also a relatively large number of annuitants in the village, these were usually widows - although three men were listed as annuitants - who were independently provided for, usually with some investments, a pension of some kind or property bringing in an income.
1881 Census returns for Lingdale
Total population, 1786 (100%)
Male - 883 (49%)
Female - 897 (51%)
School Children - 483 (27%)
Ironstone Mine Employees - 488 (27%)
All Employees - 634 (35%)
Borders etc. - 131 (11%)
White Collar
Calling Fireman - 1
Clerk - 1
Clerk to Insurance - 1
Infants Mistress - 1
Police Constable - 1
Pupil Teacher - 3
Railway Clerk - 1
School Master - 1
Sewing Mistress - 1
Student of Technology - 1
Teacher in Elementary School - 1
Total 14
Retail
Butcher - 6
Butcher (General servant) - 1
Cattle dealer - 1
Draper - 3
Draper (unemployed) - 1
Furniture dealer - 1
General Dealer - 1
Green Grocer - 3
Grocer - 9
Grocer and Sub Postmaster - 1
Grocer (+Ironstone miner) - 1
Grocer (unemployed) - 1
Hotel Keeper - 2
Hotel Merchant - 1
Provisions Merchant - 1
Shoemaker - 2
Shopkeeper - 2
Superior Tailor - 1
Tailor - 2
Watchmaker - 1
Total 41
Ironstone Mine
Banksman - 2
Blacksmith - 8
Brakesman - 1
Check Weighman - 1
Cordwainer - 2
Dipper - 1
Drill Charger - 1
Driver - 24
Engine Driver - 2
Engine fitter - 2
General - 1
Labourers - 13
Miner - 410
Miner (+grocer) - 1
Miner Unemployed - 8
Miner ... - 1
Offsetter - 1
Platelayer - 5
Relief Weighman - 1
Shale picker - 1
Stoller - 1
Trapper - 6
Total 488
Crafts / Tradesmen
Blacksmith -8
Bootmaker - 1
Brewer - 1
Bricklayer - 1
Builder - 1
Butcher - 6
Carpenter - 3
Draper - 3
Joiner - 5
Milliner - 3
Millwright - 1
Photographer - 1
Ribbon weaver - 1
Shoemaker - 2
Stonemason - 2
Superior Tailor - 1
Tailor - 2
Tailoress - 1
Tin Smith - 1
Watchmaker - 1
Total 46
Women (when occupation not in another category)
At home - 1
Farmers daughter - 3
Farmers Wife - 1
Formerly Dressmaker - 1
School Cleaner - 2
Total 8
General / Agriculture
Farm Labourer - 4
Farmer - 3
Farmer (+miner)- 1
Farmer's son - 3
Fisherman - 1
Total 12
General / Domestic Service
Domestic Servant (unemployed) - 1
General Domestic Servant - 45
General Housemaid - 1
Guest Servant - 1
Housekeeper - 31
Total 79
General / Transport
Carrier - 1
Carrier & cowkeeper - 1
Cartman - 1
Total 3
General
Hawker - 2
Labourer & Local Methodist Preacher - 1
Labourers - 34
Rag Bone Gatherer - 1
Total 38
Independent
Annuitant - 14
Retired Coal Miner - 1
Total 15
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Cleveland County Council Reports
Cleveland County Council reports on buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
Boosbeck
St Aiden - 1900 Neo-Norman. Stone Nave, Transepts, Chancel, W Turret and Porch.
Moorsholm
Church of St. Mary - Neo Norman, ashlar slates, nave, santury, W tower. 1892.
No 47 Village Street - Early 19C, ashlar, pantiles, stone coped side gables, 2 storeys, 4 sashes and ground floor modern window in former doorway. Stone Lintels.
Red Hall, Swindale Lane - 18C, ashlar, pantiles, 2 storeys, 3 sashes with keystones, 19C wood porch.
Stanghow
General - Plantation Cottages 1 + 2 - C18, ashlar and coursed rubble, pantiles, 2 storeys, 3 sliding casements, ground floor keystones and lintels.
Plantation Cottages 3 + 4 - C18, ashlar, pantiles, 2 storeys, 3 sashes, ground floor lintels, side elevation, attic blocked window with keystone.
Stanghow House - C18, ashlar slates, 2 storeys, quoins, cornice, front parapet, back central pediment, back elevation, 3 casements in rusticated surrounds, keystones, central 1st floor, round arch.
Kilton Castle - Stanghow - This ruined fortification is set on high ground in mixed woodland, It was classified as an ancient monument in 1963.
The elongated plan form runs east & west on the edge of an escarpment with the ground falling away steeply on three sides.
There are remains of twelfth century walls to both the inner and outer walls, and on the north there are two thirteenth century towers and a turrett. The castle was last occupied in the thirteenth century by the Thweng family, since that time most of the stone has disappeared.
Condition - The removal of dressed stones is easily seen in the walls at the west, and the rubble core is all that is left in many places. Where the coursed outer stone remains intact, it is often in good condition. The massive thickness of the defensive outerwall is plain to see, and many interesting features are recognisable. These include lancet and square headed openings splayed embrasures with archery slits, and the remains of a flight of steps still in usable condition.
Action - NONE.
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Mrs Oliver's Property valuation
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This property valuation was for property owned by Mrs Oliver early 1900's
it reads:
Mrs Oliver's Property Valuation
4 houses Charlotte St. New Skelton = £240.-.-
2 .. Prospect Terr. Lingdale = £280.-.-
7 .. Wilson St. Lingdale = £490.-.-
1 Garden beh: Wilson St. Lingdale = £15.-.-
4 houses Catherine St. Lingdale = £320.-.-
Stable & Contents Lingdale = £22.10.-
4 Houses Dixon St. Lingdale = £280.-.-
Total £1647.10.-
What the figures in pencil are for, I do not know
Kindly contributed by Gordon Oliver .
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John Coatsworth Estate
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Property valuation for John Coatsworths property after his death.
Kindly contributed by Gordon Oliver.
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John Coatsworth property valuation
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covering letter to go with the above valuation for the property of John Coatsworth.
Kindly contributed by Gordon Oliver |  |
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