The Black Path

It's been a reference point in my life for as long as I can recall and I've written about it myself, but I've never actually walked it. Maybe we should have a FMTTM outing to walk it when things have cleared?
 
It's been a reference point in my life for as long as I can recall and I've written about it myself, but I've never actually walked it. Maybe we should have a FMTTM outing to walk it when things have cleared?
Good idea Harry . Hey we can have Rob at the front leading and the rest of us in bibs holding hands in a link behind him . I’ll be the little contrary lad at the back complaining that I want to stop and have my jammy dodgers 😄
 
Harry we discussed the black path earlier in the week re same article ,with a good few photos on it . Well worth searching for on here
 
Here’s another canny article from on here

 
I know how to get to it behind the Navvy and used it as a kid but even though I live in Redcar not sure how you get on to it this end.

Is the artwork still there.
 
The Black path or part of it certainly went to Marske station. As kids we used to walk along it to Longbeck railway crossing then up the road to New Marske. My Dad told us about when he had to walk home from the Colliery arch plant steelworks at Grangetown when the trains were stopped. He used the Black path all the way.
 
I used to walk a short section of the black path to the 'Cleveland Works' as a young trainee from Cargo Fleet or South Bank Stations. I was told the openings in the fence were provided not for my convenience but some of the lads on nights who got extras from the ladies of the night.
 
My grandad walked it every day to work, 7 days a week, an extremely gentle man but a hard man all the same, above all a family man.......the black path is part of our heritage.
The same man enlisted underage for the Somme, and was one of the lucky few who made it back, turning up at his home at the Branch End with the mud from the Somme still on his boots......I wish I could be even a quarter the man he was, a genuine hero in my eyes.
 
I know the black path, and it's interesting as I've never come across something my grandfather used to say on someone's passing in the South Bank / Teesville / Grangetown / Eston area, " We'll drink to them and see them on the black path when our turn comes"

My uncle said a variation of it on the death of his wife a few years back, but I've never heard that said anywhere else - maybe a family thing?
 
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