Yorkshires Maritime history - Saltburn by the sea
Old Saltburn was a tiny hamlet, when Henry Pease
brought his children to pick up fossils and sea
shells. They would gaze out from Huntcliff for seals
and go for tea and "fat rascals" at the Ship Inn.
He loved the picturesque character of the place,
calling it "the Teneriffe of the Yorkshire coast". He
persuaded the railway company to extend their line
from Redcar to Saltburn in 1861. Four horse stage
coaches with red liveried coachmen still ran on to
Whitby.
The Company built the Zetland Hotel, at the cliff top.
Here was New Saltburn, a resort planned around a
railway station, with streets and terraces of white
houses.The promenade pier was built seawards, 1250
feet long, 42 feet above the water, the large pier
head provided with ornamental wind screens. A
hydraulic tramway linked the pier and the enviable
sands to the resort above .The glen was laid out with
ornamental gardens, walks and croquet lawns, An
assembly rooms was at the bottom and a 790 feet iron
girder bridge was above .A medicinal spring was
claimed "equal to Harrogate".
It was all a great marvel. Electricity illuminated the
pier and gardens but Saltburn was very respectable
indeed. The railway brought the "middle class" from
Middlesbrough, the fastest growing town of Victorian
England. Pease and Company opened a Convalescent Home
for their workpeople.. There was a new Anglican church
and a Wesleyan chapel, and both were soon enlarged.
Within a short space, there were three temperance
hotels, three family hotels, and sixty new lodging
houses.The library had 5000 volumes, Here were
Pitchforth's Bazaar, a Berlin wool repository, a jet
manufactory, livery stables and the drains were "on
the most approved system". What more could you wish
for.
John Rushton
OTHER ARTICLES
• The 200 year history of scarboroughs RNLI
• Shipping Ironstone down the coast by John Rushton
• Havens on the North Yorkshire coast. An article on scarboroughs maritime history by John Rushton
• The national RNLI and the Scarborough lifeboat of 1861.
• The port of Scarborough in the late 15th Century
• Scarborough ships in the baltic - an article by John Rushton
• Tommy Rowley - stories about loss of life at sea
• The Yorkshire smuggler - the smuggling of contraband
• Robin Hood's Bay - The Storm family website
• Filey and the gales of 1860,1867,1869 AND 1880
• The history of the Scarborough Spa pump rooms
• Carrying Coal to the Yorkshire Coast - John Rushton
• The early years of the Scarborough Lifeboat
• The history of the herring fishing in the North Sea
• Tindalls the shipbuilders by John Rushton.
• The Red Lion in fashionable Redcar - 1700's
• Scarboroughs Lifeboat - the huge storms of October 28th 1880
• Sea shanties and the filey Fishermen's choir
• Coastal erosion in the 19th Century around the North Bay and Scarborough Castle area
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