Articles:
Colin Scales Memories
October 2022
Here are some of my childhood memories growing up in the seaside town of Scarborough, Yorkshire, in the 1960s.
Me and my mates never seemed to be skint when we were kids. This had nothin...
Dennis Atkinson Autobiography
I was born on 26th May 1919 at 7J Munition Cottages Scotswood – on the River Tyne. My father who must have been about twenty five years old worked in the munition factory of ? Swan Hunter &n...
Extract from Meadley's Memorials of Scarborough Page 78. "The Foreshore in olden times"
Now that the Foreshore is an acknowledged improvement, it may perhaps be interesting to many readers of these "Memorials," to take...
Foreshore Road Protests from 1897
In October 1897 a deputation of 12 men stormed the Town Hall, then on Castle Road, and entered the Council Chamber. They presented the Council with a petition from shipwrights, sail makers, mast and block makers, ...
Ganseys are fishermens' jumpers, known elsewhere as Guernseys or Jerseys.
Each port has its own pattern, folklore says that is because if a fisherman's body was ever washed up ashore it would be taken to the port of the pattern for identif...
This article is entitled "Sewing a Safety Net:Scarborough's Maritime Community, 1747-1765" and was written by Charles R. Foy [note 1]. It appeared in the International Journal of Maritime History, XXIV, No. 1 (June 2012), 1-28.
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Article written by Jeremy Clark.
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Leeds Arms - Fishermen's pub
The Leeds Arms is a pub regularly used by the local fishermen of Scarborough. It is full of character and old pictures of the fishing industry. It is a Grade ll listed building and stands on a street first listed i...
Medieval Scarborough - map
Beating the Bounds was an annual ceremony held in Scarborough to mark the boundaries and protect them against invasion. It helped people memorise the town's limits before maps were commonly available. This c...
This page features articles on this website that mention Scarborough's Old Town in some way..
1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster
1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster One of the duties of the lifeboat is to escort fishing boats...
Olive Bielby “where I lived” and a few stories of the pier
I was born in 1932 in a very tiny house up Dog and Duck steps, My mother Clara Pickering, one of six children, lived in Wykeham Stret at the time of Scarborough Bombar...
Pentecostal Church Eastborough
This church which is commonly known as the former Pentecostal Church (though the Pentecostals used it for only a short period of its life) has a very complex history of which this is a much shortened version. The fir...
Plague in the 1600s
The plague that reached England in 1348 wiped out nearly half the country’s population within a year and it remained endemic until 1665. Seaports facing the Continent were particularly vulnerable. No ship was a...
Scarborough Post Offices
What follows is my ‘Potted’ history of the Scarborough ‘Main or Crown’ Post Office and the Falsgrave Post Office.
I have an interest in this subject because for just over twenty years out of her ...
Ray Edmonds lives in Princess Terrace and spent many years at sea. He has recorded some of his old stories on a DVD which has been placed on Youtube.
If he had a pound for every time he passed the bridge onto Scarborough's Lighthouse pier ...
A brief history written at the time of the transfer to the British Electricity Authority in April 1948.
By the Scarborough Corporation Electric Lighting Order of 1891, the Corporation obtained powers to supply electricity within the Borough.&n...
Scarboroughs rich maritime heritage revolves around the Old Town. This comprises the area around the harbour and on the castle hill. The Old Town extends as far as Friargate and Scarboroughs Market Hall. It traditionally ends at the top of the hi...
Skipping Day - Pancake Day - Shrove Tuesday
Shrove Tuesday is traditionally a feast day preceding Lent as part of the build up to Easter. In Anglo-Saxon times people were called to confession and were “shriven” (forgiven of their sins)...
The Bolts
The Bolts seems to be first mentioned in roadways called Vowtegate or Helgate. They survive as three lines of passages behind the shoreline houses, narrow and low. They said that it was one person at a ...
The Town Crier - “Oyez, oyez, oyez!”
This is the call or cry of the town crier, now usually only heard at ceremonials, fetes and local events. It would however have been a common cry on the streets of medieval England. ‘Oyez...
What the Sea Saw
What the Sea Saw celebrates the heritage of fishing along the East Yorkshire coast, particularly in communities in Scarborough and Staithes, and captures the memories of the fishing community from the 1950s to the present day. The...
