Talk:Wilton, Redcar and Cleveland

Anecdotal Observations
2020, April 22nd 22:30 EDT:

I'm offering this here. I moved to Wilton in 1960 when I was 4. We lived in Pinetrees. My father was John Lister (later CBE, British Shipbuilders), who worked for ICI at the time. Some thoughts that others could elaborate, but are not of encyclopedia quality. However, I'm not going to be here forever and I like to contribute and others can verify/edit/etc my words here.

Jhlister (talk)

Wilton Village was essentially a right angle of terraced homes, plus some number on the other side of Wilton Lane. (See Google Earth/Maps). When I lived there, both Wilton Lane and Wilton Drive went from a two-lane road to the village (lane) or the Castle (drive).

When I was there, I and my sisters went to primary school in Lazenby (the village next door (again Google maps)). We walked on a route that was along the village, around the the wooded corner at the end of the village, picking up other children as we walked, then past the church, through the woods lower than Wilton Castle, across the fields (left hand side) and Wilton Golf course (right hand side) to Lazenby. Then across the A174, which was a two-lane road going through Lazenby, down Pasture Lane, to Wilton County Primary School which, from Google Earth, looks much the same as it was when I lived there, except that the concrete playing yard has been replaced by some other surface.

I have a non-comprehensive list of the teachers during my time there, one of whom was my mother Catherine Lister.

Coming back to Wilton. The house we lived in, Pinetrees (no number), was so called because of at least one very tall pine tree that stood at the corner where Wilton Lane turned into Wilton Bank. In the 1960s, the tree had to be at least 30m tall. It appears to be still standing according to Google Earth as of 2019.

When I lived in the village, the road behind it between Wilton Lane/Bank and Wilton Drive was open to the public. I visited in 1999 and the status was the same. Now, according to Google Earth, the road has been closed to public traffic.

While I lived in Wilton, the field on the other side of the road from our house, ("The Woodfield") was acquired by the Missions to Seamen and two buildings were built. This was associated with the village church, St Cuthbert's. One of the buildings was a combination of dorms for visiting seamen and the priest's lodgings and the other was a club house for them. The field was regraded so that there was level space for a soccer pitch.

When I was there, there were the remains of various carriage drives that I assume the previous owners (before ICI) had enjoyed in the past. In particular there were the abutments of a bridge across Wilton Bank that remained as a single-lane corner on Wilton Bank, and two girders across a ravine that we were informed were all that was left of the "Lion Bridge". We could see paths from either side to other trails we had explored but, thankfully, we didn't try to clamber across.

Uphill were various paths across the old ironstone mines. We would go up there and play in the summer afternoons when we were turned out of the house with instructions not to come home for dinner. Of particular interest was the "SS Castle" (Guibal fan house), because of its size and possible means for us to injure ourselves.

I can remember more, and I would be willing to dictate an oral history to someone interested. Please contact me if that person is you.

John Lister New Brunswick NJ USA 2308 Wednesday April 22nd, 2020 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jhlister (talk • contribs) 03:09, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

ICI Wilton should be separate - why not merge this page with Wilton Castle?
The paragraph refering to the former ICI Wilton, now mostly owned by Sembcorp UK and renamed Wilton International, does not have anything to do with a small village in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland. That paragraph should, therefore, be part of a separate page. In fact, I see no reason why the page about Wilton Castle (Yorkshire) and the page about Wilton, Redcar and Cleveland shouldn't be merged.

Any thoughts? Francis Hannaway 15:47, 16 August 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Francish7 (talk • contribs)

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