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Remembering Marske By The Sea

We came to Marske in August 1948 having just demobbed from the Army 9 weeks earlier, we purchased a shop at 221 High St selling groceries, rations, ice cream etc. Our daughter was just 5 weeks old and was baptized in St Germain Church, our son Peter went to school in the Old Tithe Barn, Mrs Buttery was the teacher. Mr Skippon ran the Pictures with 5 changes a week, each show had 2 features, a cartoon & news reel, he also ran the taxi business. Mrs Sanders worked hard for the British Legion [women's section]. Jack Lynch did a lot of work for us, he replaced the garden in front of the shop and made a concrete pad in front, ...read more here
A memory of Marske-By-The-Sea contributed by Trevor Williams

This is my Grandma's house

The house on the left with the four attics was my Grandma's house.  I have lots of fond memories of this house. I even had my own bedroom! Mine was the second attic from the left and it enjoyed a beautiful view of the gardens below. Grandma used to run a bed and breakfast, with also some long term boarders. I can remember helping to get the breakfast ready and putting it in the dumb waiter and running up the stairs and putting it by the door!! It was my job too to set the big dining table and call the guests for breakfast or tea.  In the late afternoon we would retire to the cosy room and sit by the ...read more here
A memory of Marske-By-The-Sea contributed by susan kemble-jones

holidays

I stayed here with my mother and sisters when I was 5 and later when I was 11. Then it was owned by the Holiday Fellowship (now HF Holidays) who ran walking holidays for families.
I have very fond memories of the house and the area. It was a magical place for a young child - very exciting to be in a big house right by the beach. It even had a games room with a ping pong table (yes it was a simpler time!)
Every day we went on guided walks and visited some lovely places including Goathland and Roseberry Topping? and in the evenings all the guests joined together and made their own entertainment.
We all had great fun!
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A memory of Marske-By-The-Sea contributed by jean berry

Upleatham

We lived in Upleatham, my gran, grandad and my mum and dad. I was really young and my grandparents had lived there for a long time. We lived in a row of houses as the centre of the village and my grandad worked in the local saw mill and had other jobs. We had no electricity and no running hot or cold water. We had an outhouse at the back of the house up a hill. It was really cold going up there in winter! No bathroom and the men used to shave in the kitchen using the sink. I remember that grandad had the kind of razor that he sharpened on a leather strap.
My mum and gran had to ...read more here
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