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Boosbeck
A Guide to the History of Boosbeck
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Introduction
Dates are in red.
Hyperlinks to other pages are in dark blue.
Headlines of the history of Boosbeck are in brown.
References and citations are in turquoise.
Contextual history is in purple.
This webpage about Boosbeck
has the following section headings:
·
The
Farndales of Boosbeck
·
Boosbeck, an
overview
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Boosbeck Timeline
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Links,
texts and books
The Farndales of Boosbeck
Martin Farndale (FAR00364) is
buried at Boosbeck.
Many of the family from the Tidkinhow Line attended school
at Charltons and later at Boosbeck.
From a discussion with Alfred Farndale (FAR00683): "I remember going to school
at Charltons near Tidkinhow. We then went to Standard 1 at Boosbeck. We stayed there until we were 14. It was a
two mile walk each day. The headmaster was Mr Ranson. I remember Jim, my elder
brother catching me fishing and playing truant. He just said
"Get in" (he was in a pony and trap) and he took me to a days marketing at Stokesley. I remember the second master’s
name was Ackroyd. I got a fork through my leg and he
sucked it out. We were always inspected as we arrived at school. We had to walk
passed the Bainbridge place and people used to say
that he had more sheep on the moor than he was
allowed. I remember William looking after me at mother's funeral. I was crying
and very upset.”
The gravestone of Martin and Catherine
Farndale (FAR00264) at Boosbeck Church.
Boosbeck - overview
Boosbeck is a village in the Borough
of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial
county of North Yorkshire. The name is Viking in origin and means
"the stream near a cow shed".
In 1923, the mining villages of Boosbeck and North Skelton were part of the ancient parish
of Skelton, including the townships of Great Moorsholm and Stanghow, covering
11,803 acres, of which 2,219 acres are arable land, 4,657 acres permanent grass
and 578 acres woods and plantations (Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of the
County of York North Riding: Volume 2).
Boosbeck in 1857 (see Boos Beck with the old
Kilton (distinct from Kilton) where Boosbeck now is) Boosbeck
today
Boosbeck 1861
Boosbeck 1902
Boosbeck crossroads
The High Street
Between 1878 and 1960, the village had
a station on the North Eastern Railway line
between Brotton and Guisborough.
Memorial to the miners of Boosbeck
Boosbeck Timeline
1872
Two mine shafts were sunk at Boosbeck.
1873
The Station Hotel opened on 25 October
1873.
1877
A primitive Methodist Chapel was built
in 1877.
1878
Boosbeck Station opened for passengers.
1881
A a public elementary school (mixed and
infants) was built in 1881 for 221 children and enlarged in 1894 for 350
children (Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of the
County of York North Riding: Volume 2). A school house
was built in 1901.
1883
Major subsidence caused by the mine
shafts damaged about 200 houses in Boosbeck.
1887
The mine was closed due to water filling
the works.
1901
The church of St Aidan, Boosbeck was built in 1900, of stone in 12th-century style,
and consists of chancel, nave, transepts, west porch
and turret containing two bells. The site was given by Mr. W. H. A. Wharton of
Skelton Castle. The living is a vicarage in the gift of the Archbishop of York.. Boosbeck was constituted an
ecclesiastical parish in 1901 when the church opened (Victoria
County History – Yorkshire, A History of the County of York North Riding:
Volume 2).
1911
Plans to build the 'Electric Empire
Picture Hall' were passed in 1911.
1909
An old wooden hut near the railway
station was built as a 'Fish House' in 1909.
1912
In 1912-13 twelve houses were erected in
Queen Street.
1913
The commercial businesses in 1913 were: 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. Draper. 28 & 30 High Street; London Joint Stock Bank Ltd.
(sub-branch); McMillan Thos. Butcher, 16 Carney Street; Marlborough Joseph,
Farmer, Hollywell Farm; Milligan James, draper, Post Office; National
Provincial Bank of England Limited (sub branch); 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; 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.
1920s
Boosbeck School in the 1920s
1925
A petrol station was built for Mr. James
Ranson 1925.
1933
Boosbeck Station
1961
Boosbeck's former railway station in 1961
Boosbeck today in photographs
Boosbeck Church:
Links, Texts and books
There is a page on
Boosbeck at Lingdale History.
There is a history
of the Boosbeck Mine Shaft.