Re-instating of the Folk Museum Tractor!
In early March the tractor which stands proudly outside the entrance of the museum was re-instated after a brief absence. It has been tweeked, painted and polished and now looks better than ever!
Demonstration Day. John Lawson
On the 18th July thousands of steel workers on Teesside marched, with banners and a brass band, to try to save their last blast furnace from closing. For over a hundred years much of the ironstone that went into the furnaces came from the Cleveland ironstone mines, including Rosedale. On the 24th July, 40 young people from North Ormesby, near Middlesbrough, came to the museum and using banners and brass band instruments, recreated the Cleveland ironstone miners first ever Demonstration day. The original gala, held in 1872 in Skelton, included men from the Rosedale mines.
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