This website features a selection of stories all of which help to bring to life the 1920's in Scarborough. If you have got any articles on the social History of Scarborough then please email hairybobby@hotmail.com

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• Christmas party for chilren who lost their fathers in the First World War

• The Strathford disaster

• A child dies playing with hoop

• Arrested for swearing at football

• Socialists claim about 1914 Scarborough bombardment

• A bawdy house in Scarborough

• 1920 New Years Eve

• Diary account from 1741

• Some sensational stories from 1920

• Child welfare Centre - Scarborough

• The golden age of Miss Scarborough

• Police fight fire in Pajamas

• Soldiers at Scarborough in 1811

• First hand account fo Tunney fishing

• V-Day celebrations 1946

• A post boy robbed in 1778

• Post war Germany

• Scarborough's oldest woman

• Fancy dress in Filey

• A Robin Hood's Bay vagrant

• Account of Scarborough College

• Bull attacks near Helmsley

• Young girl assaulted by Rabbit skin man

• Story of a deserter

• Car crash near Peasholm

World War One : Some extracts from Paul Allens book on World War One. These are quotes, letters and any personal account of life in the trenches.

• Bombardments in the Great War

• Acts of bravery in World War One

• Cavalry in World War One

• Day to day life in the trenches

• Destruction and futility in World War One

• Gallipoli

• German defeat in World War One

• Huge mines in World War One

• Machine guns

• Conditions in the trenches in World War One

• Under attack in World War One

• Xmas and new year in Trenches

• U-Boats in World War One

• Mobilisation in World War One

• New tactics

• Offensive actions in World War One

• Outbreak of war

• Going over the top

• Some people of World War One

• Post war - World War One

• Training and preparation World War One

• Scarborough in 1917

• First World War - sea

• A man shot at dawn in World War One

• Side shows in World War One

• Tanks in World War One