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Saltburn-by-the-Sea attractions
Saltburn-by-the-Sea attractions
From Marine Parade you can look out over the pier which points just east of north. The coastline at Saltburn lies practically east west. To the north east of the town is the imposing Hunt Cliff, topped by Warsett Hill at 166m. Skelton Beck runs through the wooded Valley Gardens in Saltburn, then alongside Saltburn Miniature Railway before being joined by Saltburn Gill and entering the North Sea.
Teddy's Nook is a house built in 1862 by Henry Pease (MP) a director of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, for his own occupation. Peas was responsible for the foundation of the seaside resort and the sturdy sandstone house was first named "The Cottage". The following stories, whether fact or fiction is debatable, all relate to this house.
When Saltburn Bank was only a track, two eccentric ladies who lived in the house allegedly kept a lion for a pet. They are sid to have exercised it on the beach daily and it is said to be buried somewhere in the garden.
Mrs Lillie Langtry (the Jersey Lily) stayed at the house at sometime between 1877 and 1880. She was often visited by Edward Prince of Wales (late Edward VII of the United Kingdom) who had a suite of rooms at the Zetland Hotel. The cottage, consequently, became known as Teddy's Nook.
In wartime German spies are thought to have contacted ships out at sea by means of flashing lights from Teddy's Nook.
The Kelly family, who leased the house in later years, were cousins of Jimmy Savile who visited regularly.
"The Cottage" was the only one built of what were intended to be one of four similar houses to be called "Clifton Villas". It was the family home of Audrey Collins MBE, who served as Mayor of Saltburn and chair of the South Tees Health Authority. Middlesbrough’s James Cook University Hospital has named a teaching unit in her honour.
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