IT has been so frustrating lately! Blue skies, those rarest of days, with beautiful temperatures.
Exactly the sort of days when you want to paddle your toes in the sea, inhale the fresh briny air, take a walk beneath the cliffs, enjoy the smell and the taste of fish and chips, and finish off a perfect outing with an ice cream.
Yet in these days of lockdown, very few people could legitimately have a day out on the beach - even though, frustratingly, it is right on our doorsteps.
In an attempt to compensate, and to remind you what it looked like, we've delved into the Saltburn picture packet in The Northern Echo archive.
This picture was taken in January 1934 when “motors”, as the sign in the foreground says, were still quite new. There’s a line of wheeled bathing huts on the roadside and, behind the Ship Inn, there’s a row of wooden chalets which were halfway up the cliff.
The railway station at the centre of Henry Pease’s tourist town in June 1961.
February 1951: This picture was taken while repair work was underway - there’s very little decking on the pier.
August 1929: Waiting for the yawning chasm caused by the runaway ship Ovenbeg to be repaired.
The Ship Inn on March 2, 1934. The wheels on the left belong to the bathing huts.
The lower promenade in July 1964 when “boat parking” and motor cars and cycles were banned.
The miniature railway reopening in August 1979 with Brian Leonard in the cab and his children Tracy and Richard coming along for the first ride.
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