Hi
The results of my research project into the history of the village of Lingdale, Cleveland is now available on the Lingdale History website:
https://alisonsmall32.wixsite.com/lingdalehistory/newspaper-articles.
As well as narrating the villages early history it contains a large number of names and some biographical info which will be of interest to many family historians.
The village of Lingdale was established in the 1870s when an Ironstone
Mine was sunk nearby and accommodation was urgently needed for its
expanding workforce. People seeking work had traveled from far and
wide in an era often recalled as the Cleveland Klondike. Transient
workers passed through but many other people set down roots within the
shadow of the mine, forming a community and Lingdale was born.
The articles have been extracted from local and national
newspapers for the period 1871 to 1881. They illustrate the many
trials and tribulations of its earliest settlers before the villages first census of 1881.
It will also be shortly available on the Cleveland Family History society website and Land of Iron (Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum) sites
https://landofiron.org.uk/Should anyone have difficult accessing it please message me.
