Belmangate

1904 postcard. Only the farm above the bridge.
Farmyard on the left, below the bridge

Two views, including the photographer's terrier. Geo. Page photos.

The Housing Act, 1957. Guisborough (Belmangate No. 2 Clearance Area) Compulsory Purchase Order 1960.

Late 20th C.

Belmangate

(Local Bd Minute Books, Cleveand Cty Archive Office)

1869 Closing of stream in Belmangate – half cost by Loc Bd. Half by Admiral Thomas Chaloner.

Long Close Field up from Belmont Farm, a reservoir for use of town, nominal charge of 1/- per annum by Admiral Chaloner so long as town requires water. (Piped). Brickwork still there 1983.cf file Water 1805.doc

Cottages on E side

No 37	No ?
S	RW
TE	1778
1778

Mr Harry Jerrett’s house. No ?

His deeds 1748

W Sturdy, cordwainer,

adjoining Mathew Pybourne on N

Thomas Lincolne and Robert Sturdy – ground on old estate map

Belmangate, Gysburne Cottage

Dr Henderson’s house in Belmangate, at one time owned by Tom Wolstencroft’s great aunt, Mrs Edith Dickinson, who also owned the Orange Café (now 1983 – Hill’s Bakery). TW says they converted the Belmangate house from three little buildings. Quote: “I remember the excitement when an old iron kitchen range was pulled away to disclose an old inglenook fireplace, and being covered in plaster when chipping away at the ceiling disclosed old oak beams. In one of he bedrooms the beams had strange markings. I forget what they looked like, but I remember the theory being advanced that the timber had been obtained from vessels wrecked on the shore. …When my father was turning over the garden he discovered a stone bearing the date 1666 – I remember the date because of its associations with the Fire of London. This could be the date of the building, but I would have thought the inglenook to be medieval.”

Thomasii Dictionary

A Latin-English Dictionary, published 1606.

There are several concerning the Jowsey family, ranging from 1661 to 1782.

The Rev David Quinlan, Middlesbrough Diocesan Archivist, kindly supplied the original photographs from which these copies were made. The copyright belongs to Mr John Tindale of Whitby whose expert treatment revealed the illegible words written in red ink which had faded. Six members of the Jowsey family occur in the Guisborough Hearth Tax records in the year 1662.

“Title Page Names. (The Dalesman, January 1963)

Between the reigns of James I (1606) and James II, when the Reformation had been developing some 70 years, and there were severe punishments and death penalties for Roman Catholics and their priests, young men who wanted to be priests disguised themselves and left the country for France, where semin aries were set up. After their studies they returned by devious routes into England, where they took jobs to disguise their vocation.

A tattered Latin-English Dictionary, printed in 1606, came into the hands of the Rev David Quinlan, of Egton Bridge, who is Middlesbrough Diocesan Archivist, and on its title page and flyleaves were a number of almost illegible words in faded red ink. Photographed by modern methods, the words became visible as the signatures of a number of men, together with bits of Latin and Greek verse (see photograph).

Who were these people of over 300 years ago who despoiled a perfectly good dictionary? The names include John Jowsey, Andrew Jowsey, John Johns, Thomas Thwenge, and one in code R.2893c57C4ck29311. Father Quinlan has discovered quite a lot of their history. Some of them were Catholic priests who studied in Flanders, in the seminary at Douai, so the dictionary was a college textbook.

John Jowsey was a Guisborough (North Yorkshire) Currier who, with his parents, suffered fines and imprisonment for refusing to attend the Parish Church services. He went to Douai in 1646, and was so poor that he worked as a servant in the town during his years of study, and he returned via Holland in 1648, travelling in disguise because Priests were executed if caught trying to enter England. He then assisted Father Postgate, who was born in Egton Bridge, with his work from the north moorland coast as far inland as Pickering.

We do not know what happened to him after that. But the Andrew Jowsey who wrote his name in the book was arrested in mistake for John, in 1678, but was released when it was proved that he was not a priest. Father Postgate was arrested and executed at York in 1679.

Thomas Thwenge is well documented. He, too, went to Douai, and when he returned to England he worked as a butcher, also being Chaplain to the Nuns now at the Bar Convent, York. For six years he had a secret school for Catholic boys i the Dower House at Carlton, in the West Riding, and he either brought the Dictionary with him, or his old seminary at Douai helped him out with textbooks, for some of the other signatures are those of scholars at Carlton.

The name of his secret school was “Quosque”, which means “Wherever is it?” He was executed at York in 1681, being dragged to his death on a hurdle past the Convent where he had been chaplain. Not oly does the book bear is name, but he composed a Latin couplet which says, more or less, “This is my book, and if anyone puts his hands on it my name will remind him of the fact.”

The book now is in the “Postgate” Museum at Egton Bridge. Tracing the history of the owners has been slow work, but it is hoped to compile a much fuller account of this book, not omitting the boy who wrote his name in cypher, for that collection of letters and numbers on the flyleaf has been deciphered by Father Quinlan as “Richard Cockerill”.”

Work

Farms
1881 Census: Paradise Belmont near old mine. Thomas Dale, 40 yrs old, farmer of 238 acres.

1841 Census: Belmangate: Wm Potter 40, John Potter 35, Robert 30, all farmers. Mary Gr---wood 15. Mary Minikin, female seervant. Ann Bolton, female servant.

Also in Belmangate - John Wood, Wm Pollard, John Calvert, Thomas Mills.

Guisborough Corn Market: Public meeting of Farmers and Millers and other inhabitants held 11 March 1833: Unanimously resolved to establish a Corn Market. Sale and purchase of grain. Each Tuesday.

Guisborough Provident Corn Mill Society
Stockton Gazette & M'bro Times

Oct 10, 1862
Annual General Meeting: Half-yearly sales

23,209  stones   Flour
 2,124    "      Breadmeal
10,463    "      Offal
 2,498    "      Barleymeal
   384    "      Beans
   263  bushels  Oats

Profits for h/yr £5.2.7d! Sales down.

Presumably in Mill St. Yes, note the house with 2 upper storeys and large entrance into what was the Mill yard and also a back way into the 2 cottages east of the mill.
Established 1858-9? Advertised for sale: A Co-operative venture which preceded the consumer "store" of the Co-operative Movement. One supposes the Corn Mill Society would have the support of the local farmers. Check this. The same townsfolk prominent in this venture as in other local affairs: CO Ord, D Baker, TT Trevor. Was this mill established following the abandonment of the windmill in the Cleveland St area?

Occupations 1827/28 and 1830/31

Anchor smith       1
Bass maker         1
Brush maker        1
Bricklayers        4
Blockmaker         1
Boat builder       1
Bakers             3
Basket maker       1
Butcher            1
Cartwright         1
Carpenters         6
Coopers            2
Cropper            1
Cork cutter        1
Collier            1
Carpet weavers     2
Cotton stamper     1
Currier            1
Combmaker          1
Comb cutter        1
Coachmakers        2
Copper roll marker 1
Dyer               1
Fisherman          1
Flax dresser       1
Glassblowers       2
Gunsmith           1
Groom              1
Gardener           1
Glazier            1
Hatters           23
Hoop maker         1
“5 men going a-harvesting”
Joiners           15
Lath river         1
Labourers         26
Millers            2
Nailor             1
Printers           4
Papermakers        3
Painters           3
Paper stainer      1
Plasterer          1
“Paviour”          1
Pedlars            2
Ropers            20
Stonemason,masons  8
Sailmakers         2
Saddler            2
Sawyer             1
Schoolmaster       1
Seamen             2
Tanner             1
Tailor             1
Tobacconists
   (named)         2
“Tradesmen”        9
Wheelwright        1
Weavers           25

Solicitor (Watson)
chaisedriver
Weatherill – Common brewer
1832 Wool comber = “heckler”

1832 Henry Baliol, Comedian. (1813-1841 Bapt. reg.) daughter baptised
1834 Wm son of Wm Henry & Ann (1813-1841) Wilson, a travelling ventriloquist
1835 (1813-1841) a daughter to Anthony Nicholson, Travelling beggar. Born at Greenock, NB.
1839 George Andrews, travelling sailmaker. (1813-1841 Bapt Reg.)
1832 Richard Lamb, travelling apothecary (1813-1841 Bapt reg)

Parish register 1713 – occupations

Agricol
Blacksmith
Barber
Baker
Butcher
Clockmaker
Currier
Cobler
Chandler
Farmer
Gentn
Gardener
Glover
Husbandman
Joiner/Carpenter
Officer in the Customs
Potter
Labourer
Saddler
Skinner
Schoolmaster
Sailor
Shoemaker
Surgeon
Tailor
Tanner
Tinker
Yeoman

Baptism, Feb 14, 1724. Anne, daughter of Mr Xtopher Dent, Excise Officer.
(Parish reg.)

Sailcloth.
Manufactured at Guisborough. (Defoe). ? 1660-1731 His “Tour” 1724-27.
Note: gravestone at S Mary’s, Whitby. Monument to Christopher Preswick, sailcloth manufacturer: obit 9th july 1792. (Ralph Ward’s Diary re one Preswick: also Par Regs @ Guis.) Any connection?

Weardale Mine, Upper Belmangate
vide Mr Harry Jerret 25 April 1962. HJ dies 1984.
Weardale Iron Co. Overhead line across Belmangate to station. 2 wagons up and 2 down. HJ saw old wagon wheels in mine with WMCo. lettering.

The going of the railway

Cleveland Railway map 1863

The Staithes viaduct

Sparrow Lane.

On the branch into Guisborough station. Not the “high line” which went on to Boosbeck and beyond.) Sparrow Lane Bridge, and in the foreground the remains of the bridge of the old Cleveland Railway.

Guisborough station from the W.

Railway plaque.

Stockton and Darlington Railway Number Plate at Guisborough on wall of Stationmaster’s house.

Line opened for mineral traffic 1853, and for passengers 1854. Last train out 29 April 1964.

Site purchased for use by UDC as car park. Additional cost of £400 to break covenant restricting use of site to railway purposes.

Cart entrance to the station, on the right

Entrance to Passenger Station

Passenger Station and House

Goods Station during demolition.

View from the station, up Chaloner Street with Goods line in the foreground.

Temperance Hall on the left, Masonic Hall on the right.

Station Staff, February 1964

Last train 1964

Coming of the railway: 2 letters

1
Letter, dated 16.01.1852, from WW Thomas at Pinchinthorpe, to Wm Brown Esq of Cliffe House, Whitby


pages 4 and 1

pages 2 and 3

Pinchinthorpe

January 16^th 1852

Dear Sir,

I have since you were here had the engineer over and taken down every outlet likewise provided for bringing the water into each field where the same was cut off, we also have examined the spring in the little Dicky and that can also be managed as we shall be so near the fence as not to disturb the head of the spring – with respect to the Roseberry Branch (the Engineer reports) Mr. Brown’s ironstone might easily come on to the railway where there is a 11ft embankment; if Mr. Brown was to cast the earth covering the ironstone on to the south side of the railway and so make a road level with the railway; or the ironstone might come on to the railway at the west end of Mr. Brown’s field where the railway is level with the surface. Now with respect to crossing the railway in your higher land field the engineer proposes for you to cross at level as there will be little traffic over the line on to your other land and this crossing he proposes to make at the west end of your field adjoining Mr. Lee’s trustees and one crossing in that locality w^d do for each intack – another advantage will occur on this line to your property on the hill which I forgot to name and that is they will not be plagued with the moor sheep as the railway company will make a secure fence above the line –

I find from the engineer that we might have to take from your moor land ab^t 4 acres what with the severed land and one thing and another and that the price of 50£ per acre is three times more than value, and as we profess to give double the value c^d I prevail on you to take 30£ per acre – The draft of agreement is being prepared for you only waiting your reply with respect to the price per acre of the moor land – Hoping Mrs Brown, yourself and family are all well with kind regards –

Believe me dear sir

Yours truly

W.W.Thomas

2

Breaking the Sabbath. A letter in the Middlesbrough Weekly News & Advertiser 15 October 1859.

“Dear Sirs – Allow me through the medium of your newspaper to complain of an evil of such a demoralizing tendency, that if continued it may prove a curse not only to the parties engaged, but also to the neighbourhood in which they reside. I allude to the system of Sunday labour as conducted on the new Extension Line in Waterfall Valley. It is not for me to limit the labours or consciences of men, but I have the right to protest against all evil influences, especially those of a public or demoralizing character. That the work is not so expedient as to demand an infringement of the Sabbath I have the testimony of an official on the line. If the Railway Companies are allowed to break the Sabbath with impunity, soon we shall have every species of trade and occupation conducted with the same impunity. I am very sorry that men can be found so low and debased as to lower themselves to a task so degrading and sacriligeous. Yours most respectfully, A Guisborian.”

Yards

UDC 1910 - Plan for proposed new room in Kirtley's Yard for Tom Pallister - was this the old Priory Hall, sometime a cinema, and later destroyed by fire?

Bramley's Yard - not thought to be officially used.

Adcock’s Yd – next to Black Swan. Also a candle factory.

Allen’s Yd – NR Record Office – 1833 – List of persons entitled to vote at election of 2 Knights of Shire. vide Barry Harrison.

Bird’s Yd – Demolished 196?. Top storey in brick with date. Ground floor stone.

Burrow's Yard - In 1881 Census. Plus Johnson's Yd?

9 houses in Burrow’s Yd

4 in Bolton’s Yd (a Porteous residing there)

(‘Porteous’ never Bolton’s Yd!)

vide old Jack Richardson the painter.

Foster’s Yd – also called Clarke’s Yd after the licensee of the Chaloner Inn adjoining.

In Northgate. Quoit Club on this site now. The Old Theatre was in this area too.

Hardy's Yd

Hutton’s Yd – also called Lodging House Yd from common lodging house fronting the entrance to the Yd. Ex Brit. Leg. Club/cum Boyes shop now on site.

Johnson’s Yd – also called Burrows Yd – 9 houses 1881.

Kirtley’s Yd – old Priory Hall? UDC plan 1910.

Moore’s Yd – Belmangate, also called Grout’s Yd from licensee of Anchor Inn nearby.

Merryweather's Yd

Mallaby's Yd

Metcalfe’s Yd 1855

Mermaid Yd (off Bakehouse Square)

Old Chapel Yd

Porteous Yd – also known as Bolton’s Yd.

Poynter’s Yd – also called Page’s Yd. 9 houses in 1881.

Parker's Yd

Rodham's Yd

Scaife’s Yd – off Dragon Inn passage

Scarth’s Yd – now Greear Garth

Wiley's Yd

Wynn's Yd

YARDS—names which have disappeared

NR Rec. Office ‘List of Persons entitled to vote at election of 2 Knights of Shire’ Allen’s Yard 1833

Rodham's 1854

Metcalf's1855

Mallaby's

Mermaid

Foster's (off Northgate)

Clarke’s Inn Yd – p213 ‘Guis. Before 1900’

Poynter’s Yard (Now No. Westgate on E side of passage, and No. Westgate on W side. 1861 Census – 8 houses.

Porteous' Yard (Bolton’s Yd) see old photos of thatched cottages, Highcliff View.

Old Chapel Yard (now between No. and No. Westgate.

1861 Census 15 houses incl Lodging house. In Lodging house: man/wife and 17 lodgers – surely using more than one single cottage ?

Hutton’s Yard (scheduled for demolition 1960) also called

Lodging House Yard. After demolition British legion Club erected on site. After BL Club foundered financially Boyes store next door on E bought the Club. 1983/4 this site set back from adjoining properties. 1861 Census 7 houses.

Scarth’s Yard (now upstaged to Greear Garth) between No. and No. Westgate, E of Wilson St.

Johnson’s Yard – slum property scheduled for demolition 1960 (1861 Census 8 houses also called Burrows Yd. There was a Burrows, joiner and wheelwright there in 1900) 1988 – a carpet warehouse. Johnson’s Yd an example of very bad or devious planning; should have been demolished, but allowed to be turned into lock-up garages and decay.

Parker’s/Metcalf’s Yard – 1861, 3 houses

Kirtley’s Yard 1910 – Plan for a room there for Tom Pallister, a confectioner at No. Westgate. Was this the “Priory Hall”?

Bird’s Yard – 15 houses (10 in Yard, rest in Westgate frontage)

Wiley’s Yard – adjoining Martin’s Newsagency on West and cottages stood on a site now Hinton’s Supermarket: slum property. Tap outside!

Hardy’s Yard – between Black Swan and No. Westgate leading to houses now demolished.

Dragon Passage – also called Scaife’s Yd. 1854. After 1960 redeveloped. (Dragon derived from 19^th c pub George and Dragon)

Moore’s Yard – off W side of Belmangate. (Grout’s Yd ? Grouts had Anchor pub nearby.) 1861 Census 15 houses. Slum property demolished 1960s)

Merryweather’s Yard. Slum property demolished 1960s. Dr Merryweather’s plans for 8 cotts subject to demolition of old buildings (Bd of Health Vol I, 25/11/1871 – get a copy).

Adcocks ?

Throstle’s Nest, corner off Church Street:

from Kirkleatham Regs. (printed) 1789-94

Robert Frankland, Clerk of Guisbro, and Elizabeth Thrush, Licence, 24 Sep, 1791.

A Thrush was ‘Register’

Yard back of 81 and 83 Westgate

Adcock's Yard

3 views of Hutton's Yard

Unknown

3 views of Bird's Yard, S side, note ground floor stone, 1st storey brick.

Pavement leading to S side of Westgate

4 views of Johnson's Yard, N side of Westgate, bounded on the west by Registrar's Office and County Library.

Scarth's Yard Looking towards Westgate House

Wiley's Yard 1 (Nos 21 & 23 Westgate)

So called because the Wiley family lived there for many years. In the 1850s the family had a carrier's round, travelling twice each week to Whitby and Middlesbrough. Very handy premises for stabling, storage and carts of hay, but obviously unsuitable for human habitation in the 1950s. Miss Maggie Wiley was the last occupier, leaving in the late 1950s. As a young woman did her share of humping coal. Such yards were the products of 19th century tradesmen-developers who turned their yards into rentbooks. Wiley's Yard was one of the better ones - it did get some sun, and was not the work of a jerry-builder. Demolished, along with the Empire Cinema and Billiard Room at the rear of the Mechanics' Institute March 1976.

Wynn’s Yard (back of E side Redcar Rd, nr entrance to Pursglove College)

The Priory and the Privies, Photo: WD Brelstaff