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Roseberry Road, MIDDLESBROUGH, TS9 6EJ

The Cleveland Search and Rescue Team come to the rescue of an ambulance stuck in the snow.

Formerly The Tilesheds because on the nearby brick and tile works. It has stood empty for about four years now (at 2014) and one of only three pubs in the village. Rumour has it that the plan is to convert into residential accommodation.

Off John Street.

Great Ayton only has three pubs. Possibly a result of quaker influences. This used to be The Tilesheds reflecting the local Tile and Brick Works which are shown nearby on Victorian maps. But the pub has recently had a makeover and changed its name to the Newton Rose. Why?

Taken from Cliff Ridge and viewed south west. The northernmost half of the village (to the right) is the part in the subject square. The houses just above the trees were built in the seventies. To the left of them can be seen the local primary school.

Morning exercise over and I was mellowing out in the garden after lunch when I noticed this halo around the sun. It’s a sundog I thought remembering something I read somewhere. Why is it I don’t know what I was doing two days ago yet an insignificant fact from twenty years ago pops into mind? Anyway my memory proved wrong as it turned out not to be a sundog but a similar solar phenomena called a “22º Halo”, a rather boring name. 22º Halos are formed by the refraction of sunlight in ice crystals in clouds in the upper atmosphere. The ice crystals are found in cirrus or cirrostratus clouds and are hexagonal in shape. Cirrus and cirrostratus clouds may foretell the approach of a warm front and a deterioration of the weather. Sundogs are formed by the same mechanism but are concentrated areas of light either side of the sun (at 3 and 9 o’clock positions). They are rarer than 22º Halos which are actually quite common but rarely noticed. From my blog https://fhithich.wordpress.com/2015/05/30/22o-halo/

The mini island is a recent innovation but there are discussions as to whether it should be removed and the T junction restored.

Built by Thomas Richardson, a London financier and one of the founders of the North of England Agricultural School for Girls and Boys, later to become the Friends School. Once the residence of the Fry family, famous for their chocolet.