Skinningrove Digital Village

Children from Whitecliffe Primary School ,in Carlin How, have created signs to let people in local villages know about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). These signs can be seen in Skinningrove and Carlin How.

You can read the full story on the UNICEF site. Click Here.

This photo Gallery features pictures from photographer Christine Wilson. Some of them will be used on an exciting new project but for now we present them here for your viewing pleasure.

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If you can’t make it to the event in Saltburn today  (Thurs 3rd March) you should still me able to enjoy it online. I say “should” because this is experimental. At http://tvcm.co.uk/animex2011 there is a tweetstream with the hashtag #tvcmanim11 – a chat stream, a live stream and a “blogcast” releasing each film at the same time as the audience sees it.

Production has begun again after the Christmas break on “Tommy and Barry Go Back”. We lost a lot of production days before Christmas to weather condition and ill health so we have postponed the world premiere to March 3rd. It’s the same venue, Saltburn Community Theatre at 7.30pm. We moved our production location to Destinations in Saltburn as a more convenient location. Yesterday we got some very tricky shots in the can including Zeppelin flying and Chilean rescue pod maneuvering!

Next production day is Friday 21st (Destinations Again) when we hope to finish the 1945 Jetty scene. Below are some stills from scene 6.

Here’s a sight not seen in Skinningrove for quite some years. Inspector Charlie Bell as you’ve never seen him before. He’s one of his ancestors as he appears in the new movie “Tommy and Barry Go Back”. Eric Bloodaxe will be handing out Viking ASBO’s.

On Thursday 18th November children at Whitcliffe Primary School will re-enact a famous event from their Schools history. Actually the story relates to Skinningrove school but both schools have been amalgamated and children of Skinningrove and Carlin How all attend Whitecliffe. Whitecliffe has the logbooks of both schools going back over 140 years and one entry states; “school evacuated on the occasion of a Zeppelin sighted overhead. The children will re-enact this momentous event and Inspector Charlie Bell of Cleveland Police will play the part of the calm voice of authority leading the children to shelter in the mines (this actually took place too – many Skinningrovers took shelter in the mines during both world wars.  This will form the audio track of an animated film  “Tommy and Barry Go Back” to be premiered at Saltburn Community Theatre, Animex Fringe on February 10th 2011.                                                                                         

Straad Kirk has been cast in the role of the captain of the Zeppelin that will fly over Skinningrove School re-enacting an event that took place nearly 100 years ago. Unlike the actual Zeppelin of 1915 the one Kirk will be flying has a fully stocked bar. Clearly the cast will be frequenting this craft regularly. This is part of the filming of “Tommy and Barry Go Back” to be premmiered at Saltburn Community Theatre, Annimex Fringe on February 10th 2011.

Here are two previews of the exhibition taking place on September 11th and 13th as part of the Heritage Open Day at Loftus  Town Hall. . Although we can’t do the 8  screens and speaker of the Octorama justice here, these two clips may give you a flavour of the event

NB – the audio and video content are separate  entities. They are independent of each other although occasionaly they  seem to synch. This is unintentional.

This clips now feature  pictures from the East Cleveland Image Archive and John Lawson, readings from the  Skinningrove and Carlin How Schools log books by children from  Whitcliffe Primary School and recordings by Skinningrove History Group  all put together in a soundscape by Steve Thompson. There are also  videos from Skinnimation, TVCM and the Straad Players.

Next weekend June 26th & 27th NewtonAycliffe Bus Preservation Society will once again bringing their vintage United bus, as featured in ITV’s Heartbeat TV programme, to the Skinningrove’s Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum.

The Museum will be open on both days from 10.30 – 3.30

Why not enjoy a ride on the bus and also take half price underground tour

Myself and Barry Hunt were in Loftus Library last Thursday when we were shown some amazing plans (circa 1945) for the Skinningrove Jetty. Click on the image below and in opens out into a very large version that you can study. Note how the proposed Jetty dwarfs the existing one. Picture courtesy East Cleveland Image Archive.

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