Scarboroughs Maritime heritage centre

Please send any interesting stories or articles or photos - contact our webmaster at hairybobby2000@yahoo.co.uk - There are over 160 articles on this site written by thirteen different authors. On the right hand side we have a menu containing the main Scarborough coastlines fishing names. Each of these pages contains links to any articles featuring that name.

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• Tip Heritage - his epic 30 mile swim only to die of exposure on Speeton sands
• Graham Sea Training School
• Children selling sea urchins on the pier
• Whitby pirate - John Stephenson
• The German Bombardment of Scarborough 1914
• John Woodall - a famous Scarborian important in the fishing industry
• Tommy Rowley talks about the dangers of life at sea
• Wyrill Crawford - a famous Scarborough fishing name - an article sourced by Vanessa Milner
• The Bayes family history by the Granddaughter of Ruffan Bayes
• The Gristhorpe coastline
• Captains Stories - A man lost overboard
• Captains Stories - Pirates attack a Scarborough ship
• Captains Stories - A true to life ghost story
• The epic story of the Lord Collingwood in 1917
• The children of the old town look forward to visit of the herring fleets
• Belfast shipbuilder Sir Edward Harland and his Scarborough roots
• Smuggling in the Old Town and along the Yorkshire coast
• Scarborough boats - By George Westward
• A kissing custom in the Scarborough shipyards

• The Robinson and Cowling fishing family - Suzanne Pollard
• The Hodds fishing family in Scarborough
• A son of a fisherman has his first trip on a Keel boat
• Angry fishermen meet the towns dignitaries in 1883
• Bullamore fishing family - a detailed family history
• The loss of the Sincere in 1968 in thick fog
• Anxiously waiting for news during a storm
• The Fishermen and Firemen football match
• Families in the Old Town - Sheader and Jenkinson
• The fishermen warmly welcome Princess Mary
• Some thoughts of Tom and Lindy Rowley and Ross Tyson
• A heroic rescue in a coble in 1799
• Filey - characters in the fishing community
• Over fishing and the trawlers - the Filey view
• A first hand account of a Filey man rescued from an overturned coble
• A first hand account of a Filey Filey herring drifter
• St Marys - the fishermens church
• A list of Scarborough Steam Trawler owners compiled by Cryil Prescott

• The Raincliffe school anchor
• A quaker sentenced to death after the press gang captured him at Scarborough
• The Captains wife - good or bad?
• Charles Dickens account of the changing fortunes of George Jolliffe
• Charles Dickens account of Fileys St Oswalds churchyard
• Runswick Bay and its fishing superstitions
• A sad day in the Wray family as two trawlers run back to port
• Captains stories - crimps agents luring crews away

• Captains stories - funny stories from the era of sailing ships in Scarborough

• Shipbuilding and ownership at Scarborough, Whitby and Robin Hood's Bay - written by Douglas J Boyle and archived by Vanessa Boyle

• Scarborough cobles sunk whilst transporting building materials - an article sourced by Vanessa Milner