Waterloo Mills (behind ship) on the quayside at Stockton pre 1850 was a lead mill but then became a warehouse, demolished in 1971. photo taken c 1890s.
The Baltic Tavern (originally the Blue Anchor Tavern),No.18, The Quayside included in a view of a sailing ship off loading sacks into a barge (Tavern on right) at Corporation Quay, Stockton. The Baltic Tavern was demolished c 1929. c 1890
Thanks for feedback on Carlins. I knew that if anyone on Teesside did know of the origin of this tale it would be Frank Mee.
Tony Benson mentions the Land Lord of the Wellington with his salty carlins. Downmarket café owners in Portugal do something similar with a white kidney bean.
True Fred, then I am as old as time. If you do try the cooking recipe never put salt in whilst cooking as it stops the softening process, condiment is added later.
Most land lords put salted nuts on the counter until they were analysed, all those fingers no one knew where they had been, oh well we live and learn and I am still here.
In the 1940s and 1950s Sam Pinkney, landlord of The Wellington Inn at Wolviston gave his customers free portions of carlins on Carlin Sunday. They made his customers thirsty with salt and vinegar added.
Chris Bailey mentions the disastrous harvests in the 1870s. My mother used to mention a sort of local anniversary called Carlin Sunday, This was to remember a day of salvation, when after a period of famine, a ship arrived carrying carlin peas. These were normally used as cattle feed, but were appropriated to make a nutrious broth for the local populace.
She did cook these peas a couple of times, so they were on sale, in the market, I would guess. The peas were quite small, less than a quarter of an inch in diameter, and had a yellowish brown appearance. Does it ring any bells with anyone?
Fred, Carling Sunday the 5th Sunday in Lent and usually a Mass said. We had carlings every year or Maple beans as Mother called them.
Soak them over night then cook them until nearly tender, have a frying pan with melted butter and tip them in after draining, fry lightly until fully tender. We usually had bacon with them but they could be served as a side vegetable to a main meal.
This was a local tradition well into the 70’s when it seemed to die out probably because to us lads they had another name usually combined with an explosion of bodily gas.
The story your Mother told has many variations my Mother said it was the Scots surrounding Newcastle and a French ship with Carlings making its way up river and relieving the famine.
The Romans knew of it and it is in some old Roman recipes usually mixed with fish. They are as old as time and I have to admit I loved them when cooked properly.
Definitely two ships and if they had been taking the sacks off the barge to the ship would have fixed a jury rig to the mast and hauled them up in nets. To me and anyone who has seen loading, the sacks are being slid down the chute and stacked on the barge. They could have gone anywhere on the river from there as there were many mills in the area.
Whilst it’s strange to understand why the ‘barge-boat’ would be on the river side of the ship, if it was ‘unloading’, i.e. instead of the sacks being transported across both ships to the quay, I do think that’s what’s happening. The sacks at the bottom of the ‘chute’ have been placed at the top, and shunted down, by the man on board the ship. The man with his arms folded, (looking across the river, at the photographer) will no doubt be responsible for correctly stacking them. This could be grain intended to be floated across to the Cleveland Flour Mill on the Thornaby side, although the mill did have it’s own elaborate dock. After a series of disastrous summers in the 1870’s, grain production in the UK dramatically reduced, and imports from the USA and Russia became commonplace to feed the country’s burgeoning population.
Can someone please give me more information on the history of Waterloo Mills please? Any information would be very much appreciated.
Ship unloading. ?? Question :- Looking at the masts angles are there 2 (two) sailing ships anchored alongside the Quay, on every photo I”ve seen it states “A sailing ship in Stockton” and could it be loading, not off loading corn ,with the barge carrying sacks of corn from Yarm to the out-side vessel, Note man coming down gang-plank , with no sack to put into barge