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On me bike which meant I had to negotiate Guisborough’s busy town centre!

Surprisingly quiet.

The town cross is relatively modern but the steps are worn, perhaps part of the Medieval Market cross although a 17th or 18th century engraving shows circular steps.

Perhaps the engraving also shows the town's bull-ring which was located very near the cross. Yes, bull-ba ...

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Mick Garratt · @Fhithich
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It’s good to see blue skies after the grey of the last few days

This is the sands at Redcar.

A few years after the turn of the 19th-century Redcar, with the exception of Scarborough, was described as "the most extensively patronised seaside resort on the N.E. coast."

An old Redcar woman, Mrs. Diana Carter, had begun providing the first bathing machines at Redcar in about 1802. Six years later, there ...

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#eastcleveland #redcar #bluesky #coast

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