Marske by the Civil War Video

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Got a cracking little short video filmed on the sea front at Marske by the Sea recounting the day that the Civil War came to the beach in 1643 - and I think you will love the photography as well as the content.
As Local History Month comes towards its close this is an added extra from Phil and Janet Philo about the Civil War and the Rainbow repulsed in Marske.
It all looks so scenic and peaceful - which makes the idea of a battle with guns and pikes etc seem even more out of place, especially when it was countryman against countryman. VIDEO
 
Has everyone viewed this yet? Special little film and may make you drive to Marske in the future rather than past it - once we are fully out of all lockdown.
 
We sometimes have a wander round Marske, some old seahouses down the back streets off the Main Road, quiet beach, decent chip shop and interesting chemist shop, free car park.

I know my dad's side of the family lived in Carlton in Cleveland in 1770, so may have been in the Cleveland area in the 1640s. From what I know the area was heavily Royalist certainly in the early days of the War. Whitby was the major town in the area and it was controlled by the Cholmleys who were Royalist but changed sides.

James Pennyman - was he the evil Pennyman who gambled away most of the family's wealth?

When I was a nippy I remember Marske Hall being a Leonard Cheshire home (for injured RAF airman?)
 
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