the_holgate_roof
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I have heard it pronounced both ways but I always thought it was Staithes????
East Yarm if you don't mind.Ingleby Bar-Wick
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Thornaby Annex?
'ringers': people from Staithes or Whitby? Must get this right next time I meet one.In Whitby its called Steers and people from there are ringers. (Last place in Britain to get flush toilets)
Was the farm an Alum House - 200 years ago?Mrs Gnome's grandma was from Boulby Barns Farm right on the top of Boulby Cliff, relatives from Staithes in the day they all call it Steers. As does Mrs Gnome.
I think they went back even further than that. I went down to the remains of the one at Ravenscar 20 odd years ago and from memory that was Tudor.Was the farm an Alum House - 200 years ago?
i.e building for producing Alum as shown on villages by the sea TV programme. The local rock was mixed with urine to produce alum (a colour fixant for textiles). A shaft was built from the the Alum House down through the cliff to a cave at the base of the cliff for ships to collect Alum. Alum was the start of Teesside's chemical industry.
There are old alum works down the cliffs directly below Boulby Barns, Mrs Gnome's dad used to play football there when he was a kid visiting the grandparents apparently, seems a bit precarious to me but as they say the length of the drop doesn't matter as long as you don't fall off. Also they used to supply milk to Staithes and maybe outliers - horse and cart in those days.Was the farm an Alum House - 200 years ago?
i.e building for producing Alum as shown on villages by the sea TV programme. The local rock was mixed with urine to produce alum (a colour fixant for textiles). A shaft was built from the the Alum House down through the cliff to a cave at the base of the cliff for ships to collect Alum. Alum was the start of Teesside's chemical industry.
Like 'Southwell' or 'Bicester'?It's spelt Staithes and prnounced Staithes, surely.
I bet it was Derek ThompsonNever heard it called steers until a horse called Staithes was running. The commentator was saying steers.