Whitby at War
For the annual Pickering War Weekend, we venture out to Whitby Station to welcome visitors off the steam train, and this year was no different!
Here are a just a few of images from the wet but fun weekend!
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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