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Baltic Timber
Gabriel, Wade & English were a sawmill and timber store on Brook Street. They purchased some Baltic Timber being unloaded on Scarborough's Vincent Pier. The image is from July 1914, just before WW1 and would be the last shipm...
Scarborough has a harbour side inn called the Newcastle Packet and once had another known as the Sunderland Bridge. These names recall the profitable trade in shipping coals from Newcastle and Sunderland to the east coast, London and Europe, whic...
This excerpt is taken from John Wilson's stories "Entering Scarborough in a north east gale." from a series of articles by G Forrest Frank. This was printed in the Scarborough Post in 1920 and is in a file in the Scarborough History...
The Fleet visits Scarborough
July 26thto July 30th1906
Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has the Scarborough Harbour Masters Diary from March 1st 1906 to June 18th 1908. This is a fragile document which cannot go on g...
The Grand Turk
The Grand Turk was a sailing ship that spent much time at Scarborough and Whitby harbours between 2004 and 2009. It had been built in Marmaris, Turkey in 1996, to be used in the production of the TV series Hornblower, which ran from...
An old historical account of Scarborough Harbour written word for word from "The history and antiquities of Scarborough and the vicinity " By Thomas Hinderwell, 1811. This features letters written during Tudor times regarding Scarboroug...
Scarborough Harbour - List of documents we hold in our archive file (updated 2014):
1. 14th Century Harbour Tolls
2. 17th Century Coastal Trade
3. 1846 Report by the Harbour Commission
4. Additional Supplement to a Report on Scarboroug...
Harbour Byelaws 1912
Click here for a pdf copy of the Scarborough harbour byelaws from 1912​
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Harbour history & statistics 1960s to 1980s
PORT OF SCARBOROUGH
The Port of Scarborough is situated on the east coast and consists of three piers enclosing an outer and inner harbour. It is a tidal harbour, which means that at low water on ...
Harbour history by Captain Sydney Smith
Scarborough with its sheltering Castle headland and its sandy beach clear of rocks was an ideal place for a port to be built and men have sailed from here for a thousand years, long before Hull and Liverpool...
Harbour Master's Logbook 1906 - 1908
Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has the Scarborough Harbour Masters Diary from March 6th 1906 to June 18th 1908. This is a fragile document which cannot go on general display so a general des...
A well frequented Scarborough hostelry in Carr Streetor Leading Post street witnessed a squabble between Samuel Wharton, sailcoth manufacturer and ship owner Francis Clark in the early 19th century. New plans were afoot for the harbour and town, ...
Thanks to the Scarborough Harbour Master's Office we have been loaned their collection of logbooks and records going back over 100 years. These are a goldmine of information on boat and ship movements, crew and fishing records. Se...
Harwood Brierley described Scarborough harbour somewhat romantically at the opening of the 20th century.
"Then come the tiers of the red roofed fishermen's dwellings ,the steep wynds and stair like alleys ,which reach down to the quays...
Historical Audit
Scarborough Harbour
Click Here for PDF of Historical Audit of Scarborough Harbour​
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The King's rents.
Ever since the foundation of the borough of Scarborough, rents of fourpence and sixpence a year were charged on house plots according to whether the houses were endways or sideways on to the road. The rents were collected by ...
Master mariners in Scarborough -1665
Scarborough had constables for the four town quartersof Newbrough, Oldborough,St.Mary's and "endcliffe".The village of Falsgrave was separate along the road,and had its own constable. These ...
Was there a Roman port in Scarborough?
By John Rushton
The Romans had merchant shipping around Britain and maintained a war fleet known as " the Classis Britannica", perhaps based on Dover .
The inland Roman fortress and town that ...
Scarborough Harbour dates
Details provided by Harbour Master, Arthur Miller, source unknown.
1252: First wooden quay built
1290: Robert Acclam, a wealthy bailiff, tried to force a monopoly on the sale of herrings by going out to sea...
SEA-CAR
In June 1923 the Scarborough Corporation received an application from two local men to run a Sea-Car around the town and from the beach; if the application was rejected, they stated that they would run the service from Bridlington. Two Sea...
There were two families called Bedome in King Henrythe VIII's port of Scarborough. Both were headed bymariners. Richard Bedome had at least half of the ship "Bartholomew", and left quarter shares to hissons Richard and Robert. Likew...
