Saltburn's heyday was in the Victorian age. As the Stockton & Darlington Railway developed, local rail tycoon
Henry Pease saw the potential of what was then a sleepy hamlet with a dark smugglers' history. A grand hotel,
The Zetland, was built, along with terraces of seaview villas, a pier, and a funicular lift to take day trippers from the station on top of the cliffs down to the beach.
Many of these gems still stand proud in Saltburn.
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Saltburn's 'Italian Pleasure Gardens', that mainstay of Victorian bathing resorts |
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Lady P admires the old school planting |
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The funicular cliff lift and the pier - treasures of Victorian engineering |
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The rather grand Zetland Hotel |
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A sweet Victorian station, originally built to bring day trippers out from smoggy old Middlesbrough |
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Victorian shopping arcades (this shop is now, usefully, a Boots) |
And down by the seaside some old fashioned seaside entertainment prevails, including donkey rides.
Look closely at that last picture and you'll see something else you may have thought was a relic of a bygone age: child labour. We watched this kid picking up the donkeys' poo for a good while last weekend.
I know, amazing what passes for children's entertainment up here, isn't it?
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