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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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On Thursday 18th November children at Whitcliffe Primary School will re-enact a famous event from their Schools history. Actually [...]

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 [...]

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

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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 [...]

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 [...]