Saltburn By The Sea...

I live in the neighbouring county of Durham and yet keep thinking...am I in Teeside(Cleveland)or Yorkshire when I go here. The bounderies have changed a number of times over the years and it is just inside Yorkshire.



 

 

 

It is said to offer the best surfing conditions outside of Cornwall, these are things that you hear but I am unsure how true this is but even on the day I visited there were quite a few people with surfboards and the obligatory camper van. 

 

 

This is Saltburn pier, I had intended to walk along it and perhaps sit for awhile on the seats that are there but to be honest I was really tired and gave up...perhaps next time. There is a bus that runs regularly down the very steep bank and up again so next time, I'll catch that. Especially whilst it is free.

 



 

Looking this way into the distance it is too far to see the wind farm out to sea and further on there is an industrial area that can be seen towards Redcar and Seaton Carew but they do not dominate the skyline of Marske and Saltburn.

 



 

This view is looking down from the cliffs and shows the lower lift station at the pier/beach. The three buildings in front of the pier from memory are shops but I'll check next time I am there.

 

 

The lift has been going up and down the 120ft cliff since 1884 and works via a water balance mechanism, the oldest remaining working one in the UK. It costs £1 per journey.

 



 

It is said that each car can take 15 passengers but that is a tight squeeze and when I was there last weekend it was never that packed, people were going in two and threes. Occasionally a family perhaps.

 

 

The little hut that contains the lift's operator and the controls etc...but as you'll see from the next image you enter from the side and you can see the mechanism that fills the car with water.

 



 

Another view of the pier said to be the most Northerly surviving pier.

 

 

A view of the pier from ground level.

 

 

 

 

 

Above three views of The Ship Inn...said to date back to the fifteenth century and part of "Old" Saltburn and used by smugglers(perhaps I'll get in there some time)and have a drink. It seems quite popular.

 

 

Many of the properties are fortunate to have a commanding view of the sea and coast.

 

Perhaps if I was to explore the parts of Saltburn where most live there are newer houses but the area that most people visit they are old, solid and expensive, I'm guessing probably Victorian as you can see.

 

This is perhaps the biggest hotel in the town, The Spa and for me, too expensive to consider staying but then again most of the hotels/guest houses and self catering properties are and they are usually booked well in advance.

 

I'd say that there isn't much to do in the town, perhaps that is the attraction but that's unfair. Like any town it has a community theatre, some public houses of course, lots of organistaions and a community spirit lacking in perhaps some of the larger towns, mine included.