Scarborough Maritime heritage centre - Article by John rushton on scarboroughs seafront
Gilbank's Directory of 1855 shows the businesses of the Scarborough Under cliff still more part of the port than the resort .House numbers should be treated with caution as many have changed since.
Sandside
1. William Beeson lodging house keeper
8. Charlotte Harrison shop
11.Johnathan Smith hair dresser
15.Robert Bruce china, glass and earthenware dealer
22.John Race fishmonger
23.Christopher Keld shop
25.David Nicholson hair dresser
33.William Purcell baker
34.John Skelton blacksmith
34.William Adamson hair dresser
36.Thomas Holland Imperial fire assurance, grocer and linen draper
66.James Wrigeley lodging house keeper
Benjamin March blacksmith
Robert Skelton boat builder
William Smith boat builder
William Dowthwaite butcher
Thomas Young cabinet maker
James Sellers fishmonger
Richard Simpson fishmonger
Jane Webster fishmonger
Coulson Adamson grocer's shop
Charles Hemsworth lodging house keeper,(1 New Steps)
Thomas Harrison painter
Thomas Hick sailmaker
William Gibb Bouy Inn
Sarah Morley Dolphin Inn
Matthew Taylor Hope inn
John Bee Letters inn
Daniel Morris Ship Inn
Martk Tissiman Spread Eagle
William March whitesmith
John Appleby shipowner
Marflitt Boyes master mariner
Henry Fowler collector of custom sR.
Tindall shipbuilder
William Wear Lloyds agentEast
Sandgate
2.John Holmes, baker
8.John Clarke shop
11.Alexander McKenzie shop
John Warwick marine store dealer
George Arrand whitesmith
James Parnell whitesmith
West Sandgate
5 Richard Simpson basket maker
8 John Ward shop.tailor William Tindall marine store dlr Thomas Shaw sailmaker
William Tindall sailmaker
Quay Street
1. Phillip Glaves shop
3 Joseph Salmon cooper
12 Christopher Simpson baker
26 John Sollitt shop
31Joseph Salmon Kingfisher Inn
50.James Dalton Three Mariners inn
63.George Hood Kidd grocer's shop
John Skelton & son shipping agent
Francis Cappleman shop
George Adamson Golden Ball inn
Benjamin Buckley Hope and Anchor
Mary Mosey Victoria Inn
South sands
John Morrison bathing machine proprietor
Wm Richardson bathing machine proprietor
OTHER ARTICLES
• Scarboroughs Old Town and its connection to the sea
• The Harwood and Bullamore fishing family history in Scarborough
• Scarboroughs Heyday of Inns,smuggling and illicit stills
• Sailors graves on the Scarborough coastline.
• The German bombardment of scarborough in the First World War in 1914
• Loss of the Scarborough Lifeboat November 2nd, 1861
• The history of the Scarborough fishing industry
• The port of Scarborough in the late 15th Century
• When the Colliers came to Scarborough
• The Merrie Islington - sunk by a U-boat off Whitby
• Luggers and yawls in the filey fishing industry
• Theakston's guide to the Scarborough fisheries 1866
• Shipbuilding at Scarborough - the wooden barques and schooners
• The Allen and Truman Scarborough fishing families
• Scarboroughs first Lifeboat and its first rescue in 1801
• Scarboroughs Sir Edward Harland - The renowned Belfast Shipbuilder
• The Allen family history - Scarborough fishing family
• Scarborough fishermen and the U-Boats by Godfrey Arthur
• Thomas Hinderwell - history of Scarboroughs fisheries