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Redcar
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webpage about the Redcar has the
following section headings:
- The
Farndales of Redcar
- Redcar,
overview
- Timeline of
Redcar history
- Links, texts and books
The Farndales of Redcar
The Farndales of Recar were Matthew
Farndale (FAR00297);
George Farndale (FAR00451);
John Thomas Farndale (FAR00473),
estate land drainer of Redcar; Robert W Farndale (FAR00490);
George Farndale (FAR00540).
Farmer of Kilton Hall Farm. The last Farndale to live at Kilton Hall farm. He
never married and lived there with his sister Grace Farndale who also never
married. They lived much of their lives at Kilton Lodge. They retired from
Kilton in 1940 and went to live at Redlands; Grace Farndale (FAR00566); George
William Farndale (FAR00643);
John Richard Farndale (FAR00681),
killed in action in World War 1; Terrance S Farndale (FAR01008).
Redcar
Redcar is
a seaside resort and town located in the borough and unitary
authority of Redcar and Cleveland in the North
East of England and ceremonial county of North
Yorkshire. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire,
it lies 12.1 km east-north-east
of Middlesbrough on the North Sea coast. The combined
population of the wards of Coatham, Dormanstown, Kirkleatham,
Newcomen, West Dyke and Zetland was 36,610 in the 2001
census decreasing to 35,692 in the 2011 census. It is part of
the Teesside conurbation.
Redcar timeline
1170
The Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of the
County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Marske, 1923: Redcar
occurs by name in a charter of William de Argentein
granting land there to Albert de Craster (Craucestria) as the marriage portion of his sister
Cristiana. Albert's sons William and Ivo
were grown up before 1192, so that William's grant cannot be much later than
1170. Little is known of the place in early times.
1231
The
Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of
the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Marske, 1923: At the beginning of the 13th century
three religious houses at least had land there, Fountains, Rievaulx and
Guisborough, the last being given 43 acres more in 1231 by Ivo de Redcar.
Rievaulx Abbey received permission from the third Peter de Brus to buy fish at
Redcar apparently free of the toll which was one of the profits of both Brus
and Fauconberg.
Fifteenth century
The Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of the
County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Marske, 1923: The
dues from the boats of Redcar, known in the 15th century as 'Colybferne' or 'Colysferme,' were
another source of income to the lords of Marske in the Middle Ages, and the
market which in 1366 existed at Redcar had arisen, no doubt, mainly through the
fishing.
Sixteenth century
The Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of the
County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Marske, 1923: In the
16th century the fishermen are described as venturing out to sea through the
openings in the dangerous reef of rocks in 'cobbles' and selling a boatload of
fish for 4s. or 5s. It was their custom then to change their fellows every year
for luck, and to give a feast on St. Peter's Day, and in Ord's time the
fishermen still held a fair or festival every year, but on the two days
following Trinity Sunday.
1810
The Victoria
County History – Yorkshire, A History of the County of York North Riding:
Volume 2 Parishes: Marske, 1923: The place was beginning to be known
in 1810 as a health resort; it had then, indeed, twelve bathing machines, but
it was still mainly a fishing village of about 160 houses built down both sides
of one street which was always covered with heaps of drift sand.
1828
The Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of the
County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Marske, 1923: Redcar,
since 1828 a chapelry of Marske, and created in 1867 an ecclesiastical parish
out of Marske and Upleatham, covers 881 acres, of which 176 acres are foreshore.
1841
Redcar had 794 inhabitants.
1846
After the opening of
the Middlesbrough to Redcar Railway in 1846 Redcar became a
regular destination for Victorian tourists. The Victoria
County History – Yorkshire, A History of the County of York North Riding:
Volume 2 Parishes: Marske, 1923: Owing to the extension here in 1846
of the Stockton and Darlington branch of the North Eastern
railway it developed rapidly as a fashionable watering-place of a quiet kind.
1850
Redcar's population
expansion corresponded with Middlesbrough's, with the discovery in 1850 of iron
ore in the Eston area of Cleveland Hills.
Redcar prospered as a
seaside town drawing tourists attracted by eight miles of sands stretching from
South Gare to Saltburn-by-the-Sea.
1857
1859
The
Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of
the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Marske, 1923:
Nathaniel Hawthorne lived at Redcar from July to October
1859 after his return to England from Italy, and here re-wrote and elaborated
The Marble Faun.
1866
Plans for a pier were
drawn up in 1866, but lay dormant until prompted by
the announcement of plans to build a pier at Coatham
in 1871.Coatham Pier was wrecked before it was completed when two sailing ships
were driven through it in a storm. It had to be shortened because of the cost
of repairs and was re-opened with an entrance with two kiosks and a
roller-skating rink on the Redcar side, and a bandstand halfway along its
length.
1875
Redcar Racecourse was
created in 1875. Redcar Pier, another pier as well as Coatham Pier, was built
in the late 1870s. In October 1880 the brig Luna caused £1,000 worth of damage
to this pier. In New Year's Eve 1885 SS Cochrane demolished the landing
stage and in 1897 the schooner Amarant went through the pier. A year
later, its head and bandstand burned down.
1898
In October 1898 the
Coatham Pier was almost wrecked when the barque Birger struck it and the
pier was thereafter allowed to disintegrate. An anchor from the Birger can be
seen on the sea front pavement close to the Zetland Lifeboat Museum.
1907
In 1907 a pavilion
ballroom was built on Redcar Pier behind the entrance kiosk
1917
The town's main
employers in the post-war era were the nearby Teesside
Steelworks at Warrenby, founded by Dorman Long in 1917, and
the ICI Wilton chemical works. The steel produced at Dorman
Long was used to build the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Tyne
Bridge, Auckland Harbour Bridge and many
others.
1923
The Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of the
County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Marske, 1923: The
main streets of the town, like those of East Coatham,
of which they form the eastern half, run east and west: the esplanade along the
sea-front is thus the continuation of Newcomen Terrace in Coatham and High
Street of Queen Street West, while Coatham Road has the same name in both
places. From this last Redcar Lane leads south to the road running from Marske
to Kirkleatham. St. Peter's Church, the vicarage and
the British schools, which were built in 1857 principally at the expense of the
Earl of Zetland, are all situated at the northern end of Redcar Lane, the
cemetery made in 1872 being further to the south. The Roman Catholic chapel of
the Sacred Heart, erected in 1877, lies a little north-west of the cemetery.
Still further to the west and close to the parish boundary is the race-course. The pier, constructed in 1871–3, is at the east
end of the town near the Redcar Rocks, which here extend from the sands
eastward into the sea. The Presbyterians have a chapel in High Street which
formerly belonged to the Wesleyans and dates from 1872, while the
Congregationalists in 1855 and the Primitive Methodists in 1860 built chapels
in Lord Street.
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