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25/03/2010 A visitor to our site wants to know?
On what date(s) were the wooden groynes on the beach along The Stray installed?

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26/03/2010 Admin would like to know?
At the time of the King George V Celebrations 1935 the Mayor of Redcar visited six locations (6 wards), and planted a tree in each of them.
Does anyone know their location?

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26/03/2010

Admin would like to know?
Looks like the days of New York during the years of Prohibition.
Very good close photograph is shown at location below of a Charles Rickman Carrier and Delivery Lorry, with 3 men.
Middlesbrough and Redcar, advertised on the side of the lorry cover. 
Redcar, Yorkshire. (Cleveland ). (In the 1930 Ward Directory.
Rickman address was No 6 Sycamore Rd. Redcar ).

GOTO Time Line - People and Places - look under Rickman

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27/03/2010

Is this your house? Do you know anyone? We have had this photograph on the site before, but never got any response. Can you help us with it?
Possibly taken from a rear garden in Sandringham Road, Redcar, with the Railway Station in the background. Any help please

0817tablestallgardenbtn19271935

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30/03/2010 We know that it was formed in a barn in 1919.
It later opened new premises in Dormanstown at a cost of £3,000, with seven rooms, including a room with 2 billiard tables, a beautifully decorated lounge, and a modern reading room.
Of course it was Dormans Athletic Club.
Do YOU know any more deatails please. If so we would like to know.
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30/03/2010

We would like to know more about Welfords Bakery that was on the opposite side of Corporation Road, opposite, The Winning Post Public House. Enquiries please press the envelope on the side

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21/04/2010 Information wanted on Beverley Buildings, off Green Lane, Redcar. We have information that it was a bakery before being converted into flats. Any info would be appreciated contactbutton1
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