Tuesday Talks
Tuesday Talks began as a series of monthly talks at Kirkleatham museum. When Covid caused the museum to close, the talks continued via Zoom meetings and the frequency was increased to fortnightly.
The Talks are now presented in the Kirkleatham Walled Garden.
Entry is £6 and includes access to the Walled Garden, the illustrated talk and a cup of tea or coffee. Talks begin at 10.30am, the Bothy Gallery is open from 10.00am. Each talk lasts a bout 45 minutes with time for Q&A at the end.
Photo: Dennis Weller
Tuesday 26th March, 10.30 am
The Writing is on the Wall – The stories behind some the the street and place names in Redcar.
How did a 19th century landowner come to have a series of streets named after him? Where is Dundas Place? What do Majuba and Poona have to do with Redcar? What was the Royal Navy doing on Roseberry Road? These and other local mysteries are explained along with the snippets of local history that illustrate the answers.
Tuesday 28th May, 10.30 am
Postcard from Saltburn – A pictorial walk through the town's history from Roman times to its Victorian and Edwardian splendour.
A Roman signal station and camp on Huntcliffe, a tale of smuggling, then a Director of the North Eastern Railway Company happened to visit the sleepy fishing village in the mid-nineteenth century and saw its potential as a holiday resort. The visitors to the new town would benefit his railway company and so began the Victorian town of Saltburn.
TUESDAY 30th July, 10.30 am
Peter Sotheran – A Tale of Two Piers
The neighbouring 19th century communities of Coatham and Redcar were constant rivals. When one planned to build a pier, the other followed hard on its heels. Each vied to out-do its neighbour; each was ultimately doomed to disaster as a steady flow of disasters and shipwrecks sank their dreams
Tuesday Talks
The talks began in 2015 as a monthly series at Kirkleatham Museum and moved to online Zoom talks during the Covid lock-downs.
I am delighted to be able to present my talks on the history and heritage of Redcar and the surrounding area at the Walled Garden and I look forward to renewing old acquaintanceships and making many new ones.
Peter Sotheran MBE JP
Tuesday Talks Organiser