TributeLegacy
Create a tribute page
Back to map All in England

blue plaque · England

John Anderson

Photograph at the John Anderson blue plaque

Saltburn Cliff Hoist Built 1870 Dismantled 1883 John Anderson, Resident Engineer to the Saltburn Improvement Company designed and built a timber counterbalanced Cliff hoist to allow easy access from the cliff top town to the newly constructed pier. 20 persons were carried in the cage to travel the 120 feet. It was replaced in 1884 with the present water balanced cliff railway.

Inscription drawn from imported open data, awaiting original TributeLegacy editorial.

Source: Open Plaques. Geographic data via OpenStreetMap.

Nearby locations in England

Browse all memorials in England

Data sources

Location records are drawn from open, licence-clean datasets, kept here with attribution and gratitude to the people who maintain them.

  • Open Plaques, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). See openplaques.org.
  • Wikidata, available under the CC0 1.0 Universal dedication.
  • © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
  • Historic England, National Heritage List for England, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. War memorial records are drawn from open community datasets (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NHLE) — never from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is excluded.

Editorial descriptions, photography and tribute links are original TributeLegacy work, layered on top of the open data.

Directions to here