From March to June our exhibition is about 'Women at Sea'. Despite folklore warning it was bad luck to have women onboard there are records of female sailors, captains and pirates going back over 2000 years. Come along and lear...
The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre is at: 45 Eastborough, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK, YO11 1NH (Accessibility information: Our entrance doorway has a very small step (4cm high) and our doorway is only 70cm wide so ...
Schools / community outreach As a registered charity our main aim is the education of the public. Our Centre is open Wednesday to Sunday 11am to 4pm all year round, entrance fee. Due to the size of our premises, we can only accommodat...
Britain's First Seaside Resort A general history of Scarborough Scarborough has a major fort, an important portand was the first seaside resort. Since the 12th century, the great rock carried a Norman castle,visited by the mediaeval Kings f...
Maritime Museums UK List Maritime and Naval Museums in Britain and Ireland. List compiled by Martin H. Evans and Janet West. © 2015. Updated Jan - Aug 2022 SMHC. This page lists about 290 museums and museum-ships in Britain and Ireland, i...
Gallery List Gallery - Collections Gallery - Harbour Gallery - Ships & Boats Gallery - Old Town Gallery - Recent Events Gallery - Scarborough's Heyday Gallery - War Gallery - Fi...
Aviation Aviation > List of Current Documents: 1. 100 Years of Flight (National Geographic double-sided wall chart) 2. Anti-Submarine Coastal Patrols by Aeroplanes (15/3/1918) 3. Filey as a Flying Centre 4. Filey Aviation 5. Flig...
Video & audio recordings: (Latest added at top of list) Women's Voices, 2006 women in the fishing community - 54 mins Eddie Temple audio interview - 19 mins Bill Scales interview - 30 mins Scarboro...
Superstitions Fishing and working at sea is one of the most dangerous occupations. Many good and bad luck omens and superstitions have grown over the years and even today many fishermen will not say certain words or will not go to sea if they come...
Maritime life Margaret Clark on growing up in Scarborough - 15 minutes Click Here Intergenerational maritime recording: Some young and old Scarborians talk together about their lives and produced an exhibition about life during world war t...
Harbour photographs The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of Aberde...
Old Town Photographs There are quite a few images on the Commanet Community Archive photo album on the Scarborough Archaeological & Historical Society Website. Click here: There are also written memoirs here: ##gallery5## ...
Boat, Ship & Crew Galleries: The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr Geor...
Photograph Collections Les Day Collection Tom Rowley Collection Max Payne Collection Allen Family & Boats George Coull Gallery George Scales Colle...
War Bombardment building damage Bombardment ships gallery Scarborough at war images ...
Recent Events - Gallery ##gallery9## Seafest is an annual celebration of all things maritime. Held on the West Pier in July for the last 10 years. There is always music, beer, fish cooking and of course a maritime heritage display. &n...
News You can download our quarterly newsletters by clicking on the links below or sign up to get them emailed by using the 'Request' box at the bottom of this page. Spring 2024 Newsletter Christmas 2023 Newsletter Autumn 2023 &...
Our work As a registered charity, our main aim is to educate the public. We have been working for over 10 years to help preserve the maritime legacy of Scarborough so it can be passed on to future generations. Much of this history is being lo...
Press & Media Coverage Since the SMHC group started in 2004 we have been featured in local, regional and national newspapers, TV & radio. Below are a few samples: ##gallery23## Links to TV and Radio ...
Map of Scarborough Click here for a street map of Scarborough, courtesy of Welcome to Yorkshire ...
Our Team Directors M. Vesey, R. L. Rowley MBE, D. Normandale. Trustees M. Vesey, R. L. Rowley MBE, D. Normandale, Captain P Simpson MN, Huw Roberts, Lynn Shannon. Committee Mark Vesey (Chair), Lindy Rowley MBE (Vice c...
Membership Annual membership fees are currently £6 a year per person or £5 for OAP, unemployed, students. The membership fee helps keep the Centre open to the public, keeps you informed of any new events or development...
Links Newest ones added to top of list, hotels at end. https://www.registryoffice.uk The White Rose Way, 100 mile walk from Leeds to Scarborough iphone app with historic photos of Scarborough HIstoric map with photos of places ...
Scarborough- links Discover Yorkshire Coast (Scarborough) - The Scarborough section of the official tourism website for the area. Scarborough Borough Council - Official website for the local council Scarborough Civic Society&...
Yorkshire Yorkshire is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Due to its great size in comparison to other counties and the vast stretches of unspoiled countryside in the Yorkshire Dales and North...
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Charity Policies As a registered charity we follow government and Charity Commission guidelines and have the following policy documents in place. These have been approved by our trustees and are updated annually or sooner&nbs...
Visitor comments Date Name From Comment 29/07/2016 Hallas Family Sheffield Fantastic Thank you for a great visit. 03/08/2016 Jake and Elain...
Scarborough- SH registered boats The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr Geor...
Gallery - Scarborough fleet 2017 These pictures are kindly supplied by Mick Bayes, Watchkeeper in Scarborough harbour. It shows the current fishing fleet operating in 2017. ##gallery40## ...
Fishing boats registered by port The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr Geor...
Fleetwood Boats These photographs are from the George Coull Collection. Please contact us for more information. ##gallery41## ...
Falmouth Boats Archive of photographs of boats based from Falmouth, in reverse numerical order. These photographs are from the George Coull Collection and are listed by the port where they were registered. Please contact us for more info...
Granton Boats The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of Aberdeen and...
Glasgow Boats The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of Aberdeen and...
Kirkwall Boats The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of Aberdeen an...
Kirkaldy Boats The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of Aberdeen an...
Lerwick Boats The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of Aberdeen and...
Gallery - Hull Boats The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of Aberd...
Liverpool Boats The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of Aberdeen a...
London Boats The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of Aberdeen and ...
Lowestoft Boats The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of Aberdeen a...
Miscellaneous Boats The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of Aberde...
Scarborough SH Registered Vessels 2 The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George...
List of Archive Contents Below is a list of the items we have indexed of the archive at the Scarborough Maritime Heritage Museum, in box order. For further information on any of the items listed below, please do not hesitate to contact us and ...
International There are a dozen other Scarborough's in the world named after us. See this article for more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough For international visitors to England see England's C...
Links to War Websites: WW1 Home Front Legacy - map and information of wrecks and sites. War Memorials Online search by map postode etc.. Scalby village WW1 war memorial and information HMS Scarborough Informatio...
Other websites on ships & boats SH registered boats Scottish shipbuilding archive Fairfield shipyard in Glasgow SS Great Britain passenger, crew & voyage details Grimsby Trawlers Mary Aiston II / Glen Helen coaster 1920...
Shipwrecks There have been over 50,000 mariners who lost their lives in shipwrecks around the coast of the UK, according to Arthur Godfrey's book. One of the best shipwreck websites is : http://www.wrecksite.eu/ Here is a lis...
Family History Research Rootsweb - The Internet's oldest and largest FREE genealogical community. FreeBMD - FreeBMD is an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and d...
Volunteer Do you want to meet new people and contribute to the local community? Do you want to gain new skills or learn more about local history? If your answer is yes then you can help us as a volunteer. It is also great to pu...
FAQ What boat do the wooden ribs belong to that stick out of the South Bay sands at low tide? Click here for answer! ...
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Donate or join our membership: The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre is run entirely by volunteers and public donations. The centre and its website were set up by local people to save the amazing history of our town. Thank you for ...
Featured Articles On this page we will add links to our newest articles so you don't have to keep searching the site every time you visit. If you don't find what you are looking for please use the 'Search Box' at the top of...
Our Sponsors Thanks go to all those who support us through our regular membership scheme and also to those who have recently donated money towards the purchase of our new building (2016). They include the following people, companies and organ...
Our History This is a timeline of the Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre from its formation in 2009. Formation: In 2003 thirty boxes of photographs, log books, certificates, harbour records and maritime memorabilia were donated to the g...
Britain's First Seaside Resort Scarborough Fair Shipbuilding & boats Fishing Storms, shipwrecks, RNLI Pirates & Smuggling Sca...
Plan your visit Our location is: 45 Eastborough, Scarborough, YO11 1NH Open: 11am to 4pm, Wednesday to Sunday inclusive. Entrance is Free In the interests of helping the environment please try and trave...
Scarborough Harbour Articles http://smhc.hqtdevelopment.co.uk/article.php?article=434 Click on above link for a list of articles we hold in our files. To search this website enter 'harbour' in the search box. ...
Fish This website contains many articles about fish and we hold many documents about them in our Heritage Centre. Please use the search box on this website. 1000 years of fishing Extracts & summary of the book ' The Unnatura...
Lifeboats Gallery The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of Aberdeen...
Sailing Gallery The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of Aberdeen a...
Merchant Vessels Gallery The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of A...
Vessels Gallery The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of Aberdeen a...
Cobles Gallery The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of Aberdeen an...
Trawlers Gallery The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of Aberdeen ...
Aviation in Yorkshire The hard flat sands of the Yorkshire Coast lent themselves as useful runways for the early pioneers of flight. Indeed the 'Father of flight', Sir George Cayley, wrote a triple paper on the theory of wing warping...
Scarborough and Seaside History 1500-1800 In the 17th century Scarborough developed into a spa town. At that time when people were desperate for a cure they believed they could be healed from all sorts of diseases by drinking from a sp...
Bombardment of Scarborough, 1914 On December 16th 1914, Scarborugh was brutally shelled by German Battlecruisers resulting in 18 people killed. In 2014 the Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre commemorated the event along with the Town Counc...
Herring and Fishergirls Herring and Fishergirls > List of Current Documents: 1. Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society: Family Research (Thomson Family) 2. Bait 3. Bobbins Exclusive Knit-knits: Tradition...
Titanic Connections Introduction This is about the town's connections to the legendary RMS Titanic. The following timeline below shows the completion of the building of the ship, to its maiden voyage and the sinking of the ship. Also below ...
Maritime Art Scarborough has been called 'The Naples of the North' and many artists have enjoyed painting here. The Scarborough Museums Trust house the town's wonderful collection (http://www.scarboroughmuseumstrust.com/#!scarbor...
Lifeboats History Lifeboats History > List of Current Documents: 1. Founding of Scarborough Lifeboat Station 2. Inquest Opens Into Triple Drowning (August, 2005) 3. Lifeboat Bronze Medal (Awarded to Acting Coxswain, Tom ...
Lifeboats The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the largest charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of the UK, Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man as well as on some inland waterways. There are numerous other lif...
A forgotten Talent by Johannes Erdmann John A. Ley, a Scarborough man, built splendid little yachts. Only one of them became famous when a German yachtsman sailed the 23-foot-sloop ‘Kathena’ around the world. But it was not t...
Emigration & International Links Scarborough has been an important port for hundreds of years. Scarborough built ships and men sailed across the globe. Tindall's shipyard in the South Bay built the 'Scarborough' that...
History of Scarborough: There are over 500 pages of articles on this website about the history of Scarborough and the Yorkshire Coast. There are also many photographs in our gallery. Please use the drop down menus fr...
Naval gallery The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of Aberdeen and...
Crews The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of Aberdeen and Mr Geor...
Storms & shipwrecks gallery The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Cou...
Fishing - Gallery Scarborough's fishing industry goes back hundreds of years to a time when fishermen paid tythes to the local friarage. The famous song 'Scarborough Fair' is all about the herring catch that took place in August ...
War gallery: The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of Aberdeen and ...
Women at work - Gallery The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of Ab...
Our archive During the past ten years we have been given thousands of artefacts, photographs, documents and objects. Click here for a pdf of donated items. We have collected historical information about not only the port but also the hist...
Our library The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a reference library of over 1,500 books on local history, seamanship, shipping, naval warfare, fishing, maritime arts and crafts and famous seafaring people. Many of the books are about S...
Fishing Select a subcategory: Herring Fishing Trawling Line Fishing Tuna Fishing Shell Fish Fishing Families Art...
Book Shop Here are a few books we have for sale. Please contact us. scarboroughmaritime@yahoo.com, to order. Scarborough's History - Short, lavishly illustrated book taking a tour of our town's history. P...
Shipbuilding & Boats Select a subcategory: John Ley Scarborough Shipyards Albert Strange Yacht Designer Coronia / Pleasure boats Cobles Trawlers ...
LK 1 - Brilliant LK 20 LK 25 - Osprey LK 29 LK 35 - Good Shepherd III LK 36 LK 38 - Napier LK 45 - Flourish LK 49 - Prison LK 52 - Ariane LK 57 - Aquila Ex Bck 214 LK 57 - Fertile LK 57 - Jasper LK 63 - Sirius LK 70 - Cont...
Harbour & old town life Select a subcategory: Harbour Scarborough Old Town GST (Graham Sea Training School) Articles: Sub Aqua Club Scarborough's sub aqua club is one of the oldes...
Pirates & Smuggling Articles: Books on Pirates & smugglers Links to books & useful websites on pirates & smugglers A general history of pyrates ... Inns, smuggling and illicit stills Scarborough's heyday of...
Titanic connections Articles: Edward Harland Edward Harland, owner of the Harland & Wolfe shipyard in Belfast that built the Titanic, was born in Scarborough, where the site of M&S now stands. Sir Edward Harland was buried in ...
Heritage Forum North Yorkshire Coast This forum was set up in 2015 with the aim of sharing information and supporting all groups and organisations seeking to preserve and promote the heritage of Scarborough and the North Yorkshire Coast. The fo...
People We have several reference files in alphabetical order with information about local people of interest. This website contains a lot on local fishing families and you can search it using the search box. People with notable Scarboro...
Scarborough Fair Articles: Lyrics to Scarborough Fair Scarborough Faire Are you going to Scarborough Faire? Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. Remember me to one who lived there. She once was a true lo...
Women's work Articles: Women and children in local history Women & children in local history Here is a list of some of the articles on this website which mention women and children. 32 Sandside My grandfather's house at 3...
Yorkshire Coast Select a subcategory: Redcar, Saltburn & Cleveland Maps & Charts Filey Hull Grimsby Whitby Bridlington Robin Hoods Bay Trains A...
Children's University We are members of the Scarborough Children's University network. Local schools issue 'passports' to students to encourage them into extra-curricular learning. We have a 'Maritime Trail' quiz that takes...
UK Fishing Ports The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of Aberdeen ...
Grimsby Boats The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of Ab...
Gallery - Whitby Boats The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of Abe...
Exhibitions to loan Most of our exhibitions are mounted on A1 card and consist of six panels or more. These can be loaned and displayed using art easels, that we supply, (list of topics below). We also give talks and slide shows to schools and com...
Gallery - Hartlepool boats The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of...
History Box - world's smallest heritage centre. In August 2019 we adopted the last red phone box on Scarborough's seafront. It was being de-commisioned due to lack of use. We have now turned this into The HIstory Box, the wo...
Sea Wall Heritage Trail - Portholes in Time Click here for a 1 hour 20 minute audio guide walking from the South to North Bay Click here for a 1 hour 20 minute audio guide walking from North to South Bay Click belo...
AGM 2024 Agenda here Annual report here Accounts here Please renew your Annual Membership here: ...
Gallery - John Carr Collection John Carr was in the Royal Navy in the 1950s and left these images of his voyages. Contact us for more details. ##gallery61## ...
Chairman's Duties and Jobs list SMHC Check Yahoo email every day and reply to enquiries etc Put news and events, exhibitions etc onto Facebook Check phone messages in smhc Quarterly newsletter, create and print, post to members without emai...
1914 Bombardment - vessels sunk by German mines 2024 marks the 110th anniversary of the bombardment of Scarborough by German battle cruisers on the 16th December 1914. It was one of the iconic moments of the First World War. A day wh...
Gallery - Pleasure Boats The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats, trawlers and ships of all shapes and sizes. The photographs were collected and donated to us by Mr George Coull of A...
Seaweed Farming could be the future? https://www.seagrown.co.uk​ Seaweed For Life At SeaGrown we are inspired by the sea, so we are offering you a sustainable and guilt-free way to benefit from all the good things our clean seas have t...
Vessels sunk by Kolberg mines 1 March 1915 - Sapphire The next victim of the Kolberg’s mines was the fishing vessel Sapphire, H675. She was returning to her home port of Hull from a trip to the fishing grounds off Icel...
1000 years of fishing The following is a summary of the arguments of Professor Callum Roberts by Mark Vasey. Pre 1050 many people ate freshwater fish from our clean flowing well stocked rivers and ponds. Christian religions often prohibited eat...
2014 Bombardment Centenary Event In 2014, the Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre was a major partner in events, exhibitions and commemorations held to mark the outbreak of WW1 and the December bombardment of Scarborough. Here are l...
Vessels sunk by Kolberg mines 12 February 1915 - Torquay The Dartmouth registered 870 ton collier Torquay was sailing northwards in fog off Filey Brigg when she struck a mine. A great rush of steam emitted from the stokehold. As t...
Vessels sunk by mines laid by the Kolberg The Swedish collier, Hanna, 13 March 1915 The Swedish collier Hanna has variously been reported as being torpedoed and mined. The ship’s second officer claims to have seen the wake ...
Vessels sunk by Kolberg mines 15 April 1919 - Emulator Despite the fact that the Great War ended on 11 November 1918, mines continued to take a toll on shipping around the British Isles. Although the known minefields were cleared, in the tw...
Vessels sunk by Kolberg mines 15 February 1915 - Membland The West Hartlepool registered cargo ship the Membland left Hull for the Tyne in ballast with twenty-five people on board. She was due to take on coal for export to the Bue...
15th c Scarborough fishermen John Yorke was a 15th century Scarborough fisherman. He was prosperous enough to make a will, at a time when most folk didn't. His widow Alice proved the will in 1468. The document was brief. He asked to be buried ...
Vessels sunk by Kolberg mines Elterwater, Princess Olga, Vaaren - 16th December 1914 The First Victim, SS Elterwater As the streets of Scarborough were cleared of rubble and the dead counted, out at sea a hidden danger began to reveal i...
1779 Flamborough Head battle and Scarborough Castle links 'Cole’s Antiquities of Filey' published in 1828 gives a fairly detailed account of the Battle and specifically refers to the hoisting of a red flag on Scarborough Castl...
A great storm off Filey Bridge and a famous rescue in 1799 The following is an extract from John Cole's ancient history of Filey "History and antiquities of Filey in the county of York" published way back in 1828. It records some of ...
SOME SCARBOROUGH TRADES FROM 1834 Trade - numbers of that business listed in Scarborough Auctioneers – 4 Bakers - 18 Bankers – 4 Baths – 7 Basket Makers – 3 Blacksmiths – 10 Boot & S...
1858 The Wreck of the Mary Stoddart http://www.jbhall.clahs.ie/1858_the_sinking_of_the_mary_stoddart.htm Contains: INTERVIEW WITH A SCARBOROUGH SURVIVOR Kindly communicated by Mr. J. Fowler of the Scarborough Evening News. Mr....
RNLI and the Scarborough lifeboat of 1861 On Saturday 28th September the new lifeboat at Scarborough was launched. The lifeboat was taken by public procession from the Railway Station down to the lifeboat house. It was christened and immediately t...
A great storm in 1874 along the coasts of England A great storm on December 8th 1874 and stories around the country at Scarborough, Grimsby, Grimsby, and Whitby At Scarborough the gale sprung up most suddenly. The seamen who noticed the change ...
1880 Storm & shipwrecks In Scarborough's Art Gallery there are some huge paintings of the storm of October 1880. The scene is littered with the ten ships which went down on the South Bay. It looks like a scene from the bible. Such is the s...
TRADES IN SCARBOROUGH IN 1902 Scarborough underwent massive expansion during the reign of Queen Victoria. The arrival of the railway in 1845 changed the face and future of the town. Here are just a few selected trades and the number of them ope...
1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster One of the duties of the lifeboat is to escort fishing boats back to port during bad weather. Storms can whip up out of no where and the lifeboat would be there to help just in case. On the 8th December 1954 such...
Vessels sunk by Kolberg mines Orianda - 19 December 1914 The spate of losses led to the Admiralty instructing Hull trawlers to suspend fishing until the mines could be swept. Trawlers at Scarborough had been confined to port since the bombardme...
German bombardment - 1st Anniversary An article from Scarborough's Mercury 16th December 1915 entitled "BOMBARDMENT OF SCARBOROUGH" "A surprise attack, in order to be justified, must be made in the first place on the armed fo...
Vessels sunk by Kolberg mines 20 December 1914 - Garmo, Valiant The armed yacht Valiant, en route to Cromarty, struck a mine at 0900 hours off Filey. The explosion blew the propellors and rudder off, leaving the yacht helpless. She wa...
The 200 Year History of Scarborough's RNLI BACKGROUND Many meetings and much private discussion took place at Trinity House in Scarborough during the close of the eighteenth century, not only among seamen, but also amongst other well-dispos...
German bombardment - 20th anniversary The following article appeared in the 16th December, 1934 edition of the Scarborough evening news and daily post. It was entitled "THE BOMBARDMENT" THE BOMBARDMENT - TOMORROWS TWENTIETH ANNIVERSAR...
Vessels sunk by Kolberg mines 22 December 1914 - SS Boston At 4am in the morning the Norwegian flagged cargo ship Boston, en route from Drammen to London with a cargo of wood, struck one, or possibly two mines, three miles east of Scarboro...
Vessels sunk by Kolberg mines 24 February 1915 - Deptford The collier Deptford was carrying coal for the Royal Navy from Granton to Chatham. At 02.55 she struck a mine three miles off Scarborough. The explosion extinguished the ship&r...
Vessels sunk by Kolberg mines 25 December 1914 - Night Hawk, Eli, Gem, Therese Haymann At noon on Christmas Day the minesweeper No.57, formerly the Grimsby trawler Night Hawk, hit a mine three and a half miles off Scarborough. She san...
Vessels sunk by Kolberg mines 26 December 1914 - Gelnmorven, Linaria, Leersum The Glenmorven sailed from the Tyne for Leghorn (Livorno), Italy, with a cargo 3,620 tons of coal. She disappeared and is thought to have struck one of the&...
Vessels sunk by Kolberg mines 29 May 1915 - Condor The Scarborough trawler the Condor was fishing off Cloughton when four other trawlers heard a loud explosion. No trace of the vessel was found until the body of the skipper was wa...
Vessels sunk by Kolberg mines The Danish steamer M.C. Holm, 31 December 1914 Danish steamer M.C. Holm was carrying a cargo of raw cotton from Savannah and phosphate from Boca Grande in Florida. Her captain Marius Madsen said...
My grandfather's house at 32 Sandside The following story was surrounded with great mystery. It was handwritten by a man who lived in an old folks home in Scarborough. One of the carers at that home gave it to the Scarborough Maritime Heritage...
Vessels sunk by Kolberg mines Another Minesweeper Destroyed, The Banyers, Wednesday 6 January 1915 It is claimed that within a month of the laying of the minefield that minesweepers had cleared fifty-three of the one hundred mines lai...
Vessels sunk by Kolberg mines The Elifrida, 7 January 1915 The Newcastle registered collier Elfrida was carrying 4,150 tons of coal from the Tyne to London. At 00.40 on the morning of Thursday 7 January She was taking soundings i...
Vessels sunk by mines laid by the Kolberg The Tangistan, Tuesday 9 March 1915 The 3,738 ton Tangistan was based and crewed at the south Wales port of Swansea. She had left there with a cargo of patent fuel and coal for B&eac...
Blue Archive File on various people with Scarborough connections (non fishing). A - None B Florence Balgarnie Bronte sisters Beauclerk - Lord Capt Browne-Bushall C Ian Carmichael Sir Richard Chomley J...
German raid - Aberdeen preparations The bombardment of Scarborough was a huge shock to the whole coast. No one expected the war to affect the British mainland. The attack on Scarborough was seen as an outrage. It was a full artillery assault on an...
Accidents at sea The following article was in the Scarborough Mercury in 1910. It was entitled "SCARBOROUGH HERRING SEASON - FISHERLAD LOST FROM LUGGER - BATCH OF MINOR INCIDENTS". The main incident mentioned was of the loss of a fisherb...
Admiral Scheer's account of the German bobardment of Scarborough Article from the 19th March 1920 in the 'Scarborough Mercury' entitled "The bombardment of Scarborough - GERMAN ADMIRAL'S ACCOUNT" We quote the following...
Admiral Sir John Lawson John Lawson was an important, Scarborian, in history. Read more here: New biography 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lawson_(Royal_Navy_officer)​ http://bcw-project.org/biography/john-lawson​ ...
The mysterious sinking of the Admiral Von Tromp On Saltwick Bay near Whitby lies a wreck. Many people stand and stare at this. Many a tourist will ask the name of the stricken vessel. It is a wrecked trawler named the 'Admiral Von Tromp...
Adshead Report In our document archive we hold a copy of 'The Adshead Report', dated 1938. How would you respond if you were asked by the Town Hall to decide which buildings and amenities in Scarborough should be demolished? What would ...
German bombardment - aftermath The attack on Scarborough in 1914 resulted in extensive damage. It was a full artillery assault. The Town Council had the responsibility of managing the dangerous sights throughout the town. One of the first assessme...
The Age of the Smack This story appeared in a series of articles by Forrest Frank in 1920 in the Scarborough Daily Post - This story came from Captain John Wilson Already, even when I was a boy, there were a few smacks, whose coming in the firs...
Alan Richmond In January 2024, a small WW2 RAF Service Issue New Testament Bible was donated to us. Inside the cover was the name G Richmond and Spreight Lane Steps. We researched this Scarborough man and found the following story. Geo...
Albert Strange was a highly accomplished Designer, Sailor, Writer and Artist. See: http://www.scarboroughsmaritimeheritage.org.uk/article.php?article=435 ...
Albert Strange - Scarborough Yacht Designer Albert Strange (1855-1917) was one of the foremost designers of small cruising yachts and his craft, acknowledged to be of classic quality, were and still are sought after by small boat sailors and ...
Alfredo the accordionist Alfredo Di Placido 1920 – 2006 The President of the Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre, Martin Johnson, donated a 1930s poster of ‘Alfredo the brilliant accordionist’. Alfredo ...
John Dale Allan - 1784-1861 PREFACE About five years ago I developed an interest in the family’s history. I knew that my father Hugh Cecil Allan was born in Scarborough and that he lived there in his teens. His mother Emma Allan ...
The Allen and Truman Scarborough fishing families The writer of this history did not leave his or her name. It is a family history which concerns one child - Alice Irene Allen. I was introduced to Alice Irene in the cosy kitchen of a little ho...
The Allen family history I have compiled my family tree over many years until it now numbers 4640 persons and 1462 marriages. The ALLEN tree extends from my grandchildren back through ten generations and at the present time reaches the year 1680. ...
Where anchorsmiths got their materials - By John Rushton One of the earliest recorded anchorsmiths on the Yorkshire coast was at Scarborough as early as 1391. This was in the reign of King Richard the Second. He may well have been at the haven for...
A great storm in ancient Scarborough. by John Rushton. The ferocity of storms at sea has always left a heavy impress on men's minds. Not long after the founding of the borough of Scarborough, one of the greatest tempests ever known in Yorkshir...
A Scarborough aprentice runs away to sea A story by John Wilson from Scarborough Sea Dogs by G Forest Frank. John Wilson was made an apprentice but tried to run away to sea against his fathers will I heard that Mr Hodgson wanted some lads for h...
Archbishop's speech about the bombardment of Scarborough Article from the 23rd December, 1914, in the Scarborough Pictorial which describes describes the memorial service in 1914 to mourn those who died in the German bombardment of Scarborough...
Arras Offensive - 1917 - ‘Bloody April R.I.P. - Temporary Lieutenant Alfred Joseph Etches - Private Thomas Stanley Freeman Etches Much of the acclaim for the successful achievements of the opening phase of the Arras Offensive can withou...
Arthur Miller Arthur Miller was born in 1936 in Salford. He grew up on a farm near Bridlington and went to the Hull Navigation School. Age 16 he joined the Merchant Navy, Bank Line, and sailed the world, being at sea for up to 2 year stretches. In...
Bombardments in World War One The following are first hand quotes and diary extracts of artillery bombardments during the First World War. They are taken from Paul Allens book "Neath a foreign sky." Extract:1918 - They belched forth f...
Attacks On Trawlers in Scarborough in WW2 It was Scarborough's fishing fleet that first felt the effects of the war as far as enemy action was concerned. Fishing was only allowed between the hours of sunrise and sunset. The first incident occu...
Aviation in Yorkshire: Sir George Cayley and Robert Blackburn The hard, flat sands of the Yorkshire Coast lent themselves as useful runways for the early pioneers of flight. Indeed the 'Father of flight', Sir George Cayley, wrote a trip...
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...
Barry Watsons fishing family photos The following are photos from Barry Watson. They feature his fishing family relatives and their story. Picture above: This is a photograph of my grandfather Henry Watson. He started his career in Hull...
Bathing Machines The sea water bathing movement favoured early morning immersion before the waters could warm up. Floyer’s essay to prove cold bathing safe and useful ran to five editions in c1702. Settrington’s engraving...
Battle of Dogger Bank 1915 In January 1915 Admiral Beatty took part in a battle with the German navy and one of the German ships, the Bleucher was sunk. This was thought to be one of the ships which took part in the German raid on Scarborough so t...
Battle of the Falklands -1914 The bombardment of Scarborough was described as revenge for the battle off the Falklands on December 7th, 1914, just 9 days before the German raid on Scarborough. The following is a description of the battle of the Fa...
Battleships visit Scarborough - 19th c. When the battle ships came to Scarborough, the lords of the Admiralty called at Scarborough in their yacht early in September 1874. A week or two later, some of the great ships of the Channel Fle...
The Beam trawl and the Otter trawl From the book North Sea fishers and Fighters - by Walter Wood 1911 The beam trawl was an apparatus consisting of nine distinct parts. These were the beam, the trawl heads, the ground rope, the bosom, the cod o...
20 Sandside, Bethel Mission Chapel, once the Town Hall Historical research by John Rushton shows the following:- 1736- The 1736 election saw Lord Dupplin stand against Mr. Osbaldeston The 44 burgesses. were the electorate. ...
Bitterness against the Germans The German bombardment was seen as a truly barbaric act - even in the context of a brutal war the attack was seen as uncivilised. The following article was written a short time after the raid and shows the bitterness...
Black Mariners We have found no direct evidence, yet, of Scarborough's connections with the transatlantic slave trade and there is only one old photograph showing a black crew member. Scarborough is still a very racially unmixed town but the f...
Scarborough Blitz 18th March 1941 1378 buildings were damaged or destroyed - Scarborough's worst air raid of WW2. 98 German planes dropped high explosive parachute mines on the town around 9pm. Some were delayed action bombs that we...
Blood hound trials at Ravenscar Edwin Brough of "Wyndgate" at Scalby was a famous breeder of bloodhounds and the acknowledged authority on that subject. He kept thirty couples of hounds at Scalby until 1897, exercising them daily through...
Boats in Scarborough - 1336 Ten local boats were listed at Scarborough in 1336 , the largest belonging to Stephen the taverner. Three more belonged to Adam of Seamer, one of the richest men in the town. The local ships were La Kateryne 15 tons,...
Scarborough boats Written by George Westwood - Scarborough boats from the turn of the century Picture above : A typical mounts bay lugger unloads its catch of herring onto a cart at low water at Scarborough.One such boat is recorded to ha...
Scarborough boatswain meets Napoleon A story by John Helm Gibson from Scarborough Sea Dogs by G Forest Frank. Captain John Helm Gibson comes of a long line of seafarers - masters and owners - whose names will frequently crop up as the chronicle...
1977 Bombardment Documentary Day They Shelled Scarborough - British Film Institute (19 Minutes) This is a fine documentary on what some have claimed to have been the first example of ‘total war’, with civilian casualties, as Germany...
Bombardment index Shortly before 3am on Tuesday 15th December 1914 as German Admiral Franz Von Hipper led his squadron of fast battlecruisers and support ships from the mouth of the River Jade, his opposite number in the Royal Navy, Rear Admiral D...
German bombardment - Medals For months after the German bombardment of Scarborough in 1914 the 'Scarborough Mercury' advertised commemoration medals. The advert used the following text THE BOMBARDMENT OF SCARBOROUGH. AN ISSUE OF COMMEMO...
German bombardment on Scarborough - plaques The bombardment of Scarborough had a profound effect both on the people of Scarborough and the general population. It was felt that the event should be marked in some way. Letter from Town Hall to J.N...
German bombardment of Scarborough An article entitled "A day to remember" by Bryan Berryman about the German bombardment of Scarborough in 1914 When it happened, Lily Bain was in the back room of her home at 51 St John's Road, lac...
Here is a link to an online copy of a book published in 1794 about famous pirates & smugglers, including the legendary female pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny (Pages 157 to 173). A general history of pyrates ...
A boatswain's call, pipe or bosun's whistle is a pipe or whistle used on naval ships. It is sometimes called the "bosun's call". The pipe consists of a narrow tube (the gun) which directs air over...
Boy worries about his pet dog A boy was worried about a little terrier during the German bombardment of Scarborough in 1914 from the Scarborough Mercury 24th December The terrible explosion which blew up No. 2 Wykeham street and its occupants c...
Acts of bravery in World War One The following are first hand quotes and diary extracts about acts of bravery during the First World War. They are taken from Paul Allens on-line book 'Neath a foreign sky' All these extracts help to bring t...
A great storm in 1871 in Bridlington Bay This account of a great storm in Bridlington Bay comes from the the Yorkshire Annals 1871 10th February. A storm of very great violence occurred on the north east coast. The fury of the gale seemed to bu...
Bridlington hear Scarborough Bombardment An article entitled "SOUND OF THE GUNS AT BRIDLINGTON" from the 18th December, 1914, edition of the Scarborough Mercury. This describes how the German bombardment of Scarborough was heard in Bridl...
Brigantines on the Yorkshire Coast This page features articles on this website that mention Brigantines. 1874 - great storm along the coasts of England A great storm in 1874 along the coasts of England A great storm on December 8th 18...
Britain's First Seaside Resort As the first seaside resort in Britain, 50 years before Brighton, Scarborough pioneered "bathing machines" for women, who entered the ocean clad in vast garments, helped by servant women, from horse dra...
Britain's First Seaside Resort As the first seaside resort in Britain, 50 years before Brighton, Scarborough pioneered "bathing machines" for women, who entered the ocean clad in vast garments, helped by servant women, from horse dra...
Bullamore fishing family The following is intended to complement Ian Hollingsworth’s article about the Harwood and Bullamore fishing family history by setting details of another ‘strand’ of the family. Mr Hollingsworth’s...
Burniston & Cloughton maritime history This page features articles on this site which mention the Cloughton coastline in some way. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bottom may just mention Cloughto...
The Battle of Cambrai - World War One R.I.P. - Second Lieutenant George Russell Hutchinson - Private John Wright [Lancaster] - Private Clarence Fleming - Lance Corporal Thomas Craven Coverley - Flying Officer William Hugh Coverley - Private ...
Cammish, Jenkinson and Sheader Families A look at the electoral register in 1905-06 reveals that certain streets within the old town had lots of houses lived in by fishing and seafaring families. Quay Street for instance reveals seven houses ...
Canadians take Passchendaele In Remembrance; -Private Herbert Portufield Fenby - Private Frank Manson - Private Charles Lancaster - Lieutenant Kenneth Glaisby And so ‘Third Wipers’ had continued. Before the onset of full-blown w...
The need for canals in the Scarborough area - discussions in the late 1700's Scarborough always had a restricted hinterland.There were people to the west but only fishes to the east. The growing industrial areas of the 18th century were far di...
The Captain and his wife The Captain's wife has always been an important personage. A few years ago there was a lengthened discussion in the newspapers about her. She was the subject of many letters; the object of praise on one hand, of blame ...
Captain dies at Aden The following story is based upon a real life account written by Forrest Frank based upon a story by Captain Henry Nicholson. These appeared in the Scarborough Daily Post in 1920 as part of the 'Sea Dogs' stories by Fo...
Captain Henry Nicholson grounded The following story is based upon a real life account written by Forrest Frank based upon a story by Captain Henry Nicholson.These appeared in the Scarborough Daily Post in 1920 as part of the 'Sea Dogs' st...
Captain Sidney Smith was an important figure in Scarborough's maritime history. He kept detailed lists of ships entering the harbour, built or registered here. He donated much of this information to the Maritime Centre. Read some more about...
Captain Sydney Smith Captain Sydney Smith was an important resident of Scarborough. He worked at Trinity House and built up detailed records of thousands of ships that were made or sailed in an out of Scarborough over the centuries. He was also a ...
Scarborough captains and shipbuilding Scarborough has long been a nursery of seamen. The coming of the railways and the broadening of share ownership made the 19th century town, for some decades, a modest centre for ship owning, for vessels which ...
Scarborough cargo 17th century William Lawson the master brought this cargo from Rotterdam for Francis Sollitt in the "Isabel" of Scarborough, on the 15th November 1643 3 hogshead of sack 4 cwt of prownes one hundred of raysines ...
Carrying Coal along the Yorkshire Coast The Northumberland and Durham coal fields have a long history. They made a huge difference to the Yorkshire coastal ports, not least by using them as havens of refuge in storm and war. Early coal deliveries ...
The case for a navy Dr John Dee, one of the cleverest men of his day and a confidante of Queen Elizabeth I, put the case for a Royal Navy, of three score tall ships or more, in 1577. They would stop France, Denmark, Scotland and Spain annoying &qu...
Scarborough seafaring casualties in World War One R.I.P. - Skipper Robert Heritage - Second Hand John Chamberlain Barker - Third Hand Arthur Houghton Wright - Chief Engineer Frederick Nathan Mills - Second Engineer James Robert Hunter - Deck...
A cavalry charge in World War One The following are first hand quotes and diary extracts of the cavalry in 1914. They are taken from Paul Allens book 'Neath a foreign sky.' Extract: Cavalry dismounted The Royal Horse Guards h...
Cayton Bay This page features articles on this website that mention Cayton Bay in some way. 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster One of the duties of the lifeboat is to escort fishi...
Chance meeting with sailor nephew From the Scarborough Mercury, 10th September, 1915. A chance meeting hundreds of miles away BAYONETTED BY ACCIDENT - SCARBRO' SOLDIERS STIRRING EXPERIENCE - SURPRISE MEETING WITH SAILOR NEPHEW Writing to...
Characters of the Filey fishing industry From the book "Filey - a Yorkshire fishing town" by Irene E Allen and Andrew A Todd THE "BUGGINS" - BONZO PARTNERSHIP Throughout the winter months, irrespective of weather conditio...
Charles Dickens account of a shipwreck at Filey Charles Dickens wrote many factual books. This article was published in "Household words"in 1851 It was precisely on the 5th of November, 1851, that a terrible gale from the north-west s...
Charles Dickens account of Filey and Scarborough graveyards Charles Dickens wrote many factual books. This article was published in "Household words" in 1851 The sea-side churchyard is a strange witness of the perilous life of the mar...
Children evacuated after the German raid A story from the "Scarborough Mercury" entitled "SCHOOLGIRLS' EXPERIENCE AT SCARBOROUGH - BELGIAN GIRL WHO KNEW" Mr. John Place, M.I. Mech.E., of Beckenham, Kent, sends a morning ...
Children of the fishing families in Scarborough Photo above: Children by the harbour The children of the fishing families never had an easy life. Life in the nineteenth century and early tweentieth century was characterized by poverty. Chil...
Cholera Coverup in Scarborough In Sept. 1866 a French lugger from Fecamp, “St. Joseph of Fecamp” put into Scarborough at the height of the holiday season, having on board one man dead from cholera and several others suffering from ...
A cholera outbreak The following story is based upon real life accounts which appeared in the Scarborough Daily Post in 1920 as part of the 'Sea Dogs' stories by Forrest Frank. This story was told by Captain John Helm Gibson. The Wydal...
Christmas and New Years Eve The following are first hand quotes from Paul Allens book 'Neath a foreign sky.' These all refer to Christmas and New Years Eve during World War One. They provide a social history of this period. A quit...
Scarborough Churches List of Archive File Contents. Three Orders of Friar at Scarborough The New Front for St Mary's Church The Stones of St Mary's Booklet Grave of Anne Bronte, St Mary...
Church Tithes in Early Scarborough The local representatives of the abbot and convent of Citeaux collected the Scarborough church fish tithes from their fishermen parishioners. After disputes, in 1251, Roger Ughtred negotiated a new tithe agreemen...
Letter from Churchill to Scarborough - 1914 Winston Churchill's letter to Scarborough after the German bombardment of Scarborough in 1914. The first official explanation came from the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr Winston Churchill) in a ...
Clayburn family The Clayburn family were a big fishing family in the 1800's and with that were stalwarts of the lifeboat. Here are two excerpts which feature the Clayburn family "The north-eastern coast of England suffered during Satur...
Cliff lift and Tramway Scarborough had the very first cliff lift in Britain, click here for details There were at least three other cliff lifts, one in the North Bay and two near the Grand Hotel. One of these has now been closed do...
Article on the coal trade by John Rushton The traffic in coal was increasing dramatically. Queen Elizabeth had incorporated the Newcastle hostmen, who had the monopoly right to move coal from shore to ship. Scarborough apparently had no shipsi...
Coals from Newcastle - Scarborough's trade in coal 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...
Coastal erosion in 19th Century Scarborough The problem of coastal erosion has always been important. In 1880 there was a landslip on the North Bay at Scarborough. It was recognized that a great deal of land had gone in 50 years and that this was ...
Coastguard - William Milner Thanks go to Alan Sutton who sent us this research on his 4th great-grandfather, William Milner, who was stationed at Scarborough from 1821 to 1826. The attached outlines of his career (which ended in Ireland in 1846) e...
German bombardment - coastguard An article from the Scarborough Pictorial 23rd December 1914 entitled "EYE WITNESS STORIES - COASTGUARD TESTIFIES TO 500 SHELLS." It describes the coroners inquest into the deaths during the German bombard...
Coatham - a forgotten Yorkshire haven near Redcar Coatham was a Yorkshire salt and fishing port from the 12th to the 16th centuries. The salt was prepared by the evaporation of sea water at the saltings in Coatham marsh. Ughtred the Fleming was an...
The coble boats of Filey, Flamborough and Runswicks Bay Filey bay is famed for its coble boats with the slipway known as 'Coble Landing'. Its a beautiful site in the summer with the fishing pots stacked up on the little boats and tractors....
Cobles on the Yorkshire Coast This page features articles on this website that mention cobles. 1799 - a great storm off Filey Bridge and a famous rescue A great storm off Filey Bridge and a famous rescue in 1799 The following is a...
Cobles landing in a huge storm This account is from Friday 10th December, 1954 at the time of the 1954 Scarborough lifeboat disaster. The huge seas which were reported here were the same that capsized the Scarborough lifeboat just 7 miles away. ...
Scarborough Cobles sunk gravelling in Carnelian bay Fishing cobles often used to do other work to help make ends meet. They would transport building materials of various kinds. Boats would go as far as Flamborough. The following article was taken ...
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...
Collier taken by privateer Exchequer Depositions in Hedley & Fairlasse v Jarratt (1702) Many ships faced problems at sea. However, ships masters might be tempted to make stories up and gain financially. This legal case involves the ships ow...
When the Colliers came to Scarborough The greatest stimulus to the north east Yorkshire ports over several centuries was the expansion in the despatch of coal from the Northumberland and Durham coal fields . The port of Sunderland was improved and...
Commercial Vessels Here are two Excel spreadsheets of Scarborough Commercial Vessels from 1380 to 1952 1380 to 1830 1831 to 1952 ...
Community spirit in the Old Town in Filey From the book "Filey - a Yorkshire fishing town" by Irene E Allen and Andrew A Todd NOBODY EVER KNOCKED It isn't surprising that Filey Old Town developed a strong community identity. Th...
German raid and compensation Letter from Town Clerk, 19th December, 1914 Bombardment of Scarborough. Damage to Olympia. As I told you this morning, Mr Catlin complains that the Olympia Buildings have been considerably damaged, and that he is...
Controversial Account of Bombardment From 'The Old Students' Association Domestic Training School, Leeds'. May, 1915 The Bombardment of Scarborough I have been asked to write an account of the bombardment of Scarborough, ...
A cook sacked The following story is based upon a real life account written by Forrest Frank based upon a story by Captain Henry Nicholson. These appeared in the Scarborough Daily Post in 1920 as part of the 'Sea Dogs' stories by Forrest F...
Coroners inquest - German bombardment INQUEST IN THE VICTIMS - CORONER AND UNWARRANTED ATTACK - NOT SUCH A THING FOR 1000 YEARS...CORONER AND THE TRAGIC AFFAIR ...There had been a good deal of talk in the town about the fleet, but they must bea...
Countess of Scarborough Ships hired by the Admiralty: COUNTESS OF SCARBOROUGH - 20 guns, hired November 1777 - Captain Thomas Piercy. 17 June 1779 Countess of Scarborough and Medea took the French privateers D...
The Cowling fishing family This page features articles on this site that may mention Cowling in some way. 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster One of the duties of the lifeboat is to escort fishin...
The Crimlisk fishing family There are many Crimlisk's in Filey,Flamborough, Hull and Scarborough. Yet they all are descended from just one man who came here from Ireland in 1842 - Thomas Crimlisk. He was born in Ardara in County Donegal in 180...
Crimps agents in the era of sailing ships The stories below appeared in a series of articles by Forrest Frank in 1920 in the Scarborough Daily Post - These all feature 'crimps' who acted as agents for crew members. Crmpis would often lure ...
The Dalton fishing family of Scarborough This page features articles on this site which mention the Dalton fishing family of Scarborough,Flamborough,Filey and Flamborough in some way. 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster 1954 Scarb...
Dennis Allen - stories from the sea This is a short extract from a book Dennis Allen wrote about his first trip to sea in 1954. The wind screaming through the rigging reached its peak as the storm hit us. Waves crashed over the decks ripping th...
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...
Deserters on a Scarborough boat This is a short extract from Captain John Wilson's memories When we had loaded and were getting ready for sea, Captain Brodie thought it was about time he was getting his crew together, and as he knew some of...
Destruction in World War One The following are first hand quotes and diary extracts about the massive destruction during the First World War. They are taken from Paul Allens book 'Neath a foreign sky.' Extract: It was impossible to bury...
Developements in trawling in early 1900's FISHERMEN'S HAVEN - SHELTER TO BE ERECTED ON COAST OF ICELAND A fund of about £1000 is being raised at Hull for the erection of a fishermen's shelter on the South Coats of Iceland. Eve...
THOSE WHO DIED AT SEA, HEADSTONES IN DEAN ROAD CEMETERY ADAMSON JOHN WILSON DROWNED AT SEA MAY 31st 1865 AGED 19YRS (SECTC No25) ALLAN EDMUND DROWNED FROM THE SS “DELO” IN THE RIVER ELBE APRIL 27th 1877 AGED 24YRS (SECT WEST CIRCLE ...
Discovery of the Silver pit in 1835 The first trawlers off the North East coast around Scarborough were not local fishermen. Instead they came from Southern ports such as Brixham or Lowestoft. Both Barking and Brixham claim the first use of the Be...
Dogger Bank 1904 - The Russian fleet attacks Hull trawlers The most unusual incident in British Trawling history perhaps took place on 21st October 1904. The Gamecock fishing fleet, which sailed out of Hull, was attacked by warships completely une...
Dora Walker first woman skipper in Yorkshire & other women sailors Dora Walker was the first female boat skipper on the Yorkshire Coast. She was born in 1890 and died in 1980. During WW1 she was a 'VAD' nurse and after the war bec...
German bombardment on Scarborough - Dunollie The attack on Scarborough by the German cruisers in 1914 was long remembered. ETW Dennis the printers brought out commemorative booklets on the raid full of photos of the houses and buildings damaged. L...
Earliest residents of Scarborough The borough of Scarborough was formed in two stages byNorman lords during the 12th century.A Norman baron,William of Aumale .lord of Holderness, built a castleon Crown land within the Manor of Falsgrave, of whichh...
The earliest known plan of Scarborough is from 1538. Thanks to the Scarborough Archaeological & Historical Society for use of this picture. ...
Early industries Anchor Smiths William Cobb William & Benjamin March (Quay End). Corn Factory Jeremiah Hudson Fishmongers Thomas Busfield, Sarah Lancaster & Co Timber and Raff Merchant Anthony Beswick. 1823 Terry and Hill 1...
Scarborough's early industries - By John Rushton Scarborough shipbuiding in the 19th century Scarborough shipbuilding was a contracting industry after the ending of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815. The 1824 reciprocity treaties were blamed for the...
East Coast raids - compensation An article from the 'Scarborough Mercury' 4th June, 1915 entitled "EAST COAST BOMBARDMENT - CLAIMS FOR DAMAGE TO PROPERTY - 6,473 CASES DISPOED OF." After the German bombardment of the east coast p...
East Coast War Channels in the First and Second World War Antony Firth March 2014 A report for English Heritage The East Coast War Channels (ECWCs) are the carefully defined routes that were sw...
Edward Harland, owner of the Harland & Wolfe shipyard in Belfast that built the Titanic, was born in Scarborough, where the site of M&S now stands. Sir Edward Harland was buried in 1895 in Belfast. He set up the world famous Harland a...
A Scarborough man emigrates to Australia Many Scarborough people left the town to live in the Empire. One such man was Mr F.A. Legge who sailed with his wife and 9 children for Australia in 1884. In 1934 he wrote about his voyage and life. He stil...
Entering Scarborough harbour 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 fil...
Ernest Dade Ernest Dade landed at Filey in October 1883. He wanted to get to Scarborough so went aboard another yawl which was ready to go. The skipper was a tall good looking man of sixty with no teeth. Also with him as crew members were his thre...
Escaping the shells HAIRSBREADTH ESCAPES UNSCATHED IN A RAIN OF BULLETS wednesday December 23rd 1914. A story from the German bombardment of Scarborough in 1914 Lily Bain, 14 year old daughter of Mr and Mr Bain, 51 St. Johns Road, had a mi...
Scarborough fishing families - the Eves family This page features articles on this site which mention the Eves fishing family in some way. 200 year history of Scarborough's RNLI The 200 Year History of Scarborough's RNLI ...
German raid eyewitness An article from the Scarborough Pictorial 23rd December, 1914, entitled "OTHERS WHO SAW THE SHELLS." When Scarborough was bombarded by the Germans in 1914 some saw the ships at first hand. At the time the firing...
Scarborough raid - damage in Falsgrave "MAINLY ABOUT THE DISTRICT OF FALSGRAVE" in the Scarborough Mercury 24th December. A description of the German bombardment of Scarborough in 1914 To say that much commotion was created in the Fal...
The German bombardment of Scarborough Article about the German raid on Scarborough - "MAINLY ABOUT THE DISTRICT OF FALSGRAVE" in the Scarborough Mercury 24th December. Streams of people moved out of the town along Scalby-road, Stepne...
Fighting the Scots in Scarborough waters in the early 16th century. We were often at war with the Scots and the French in the early 16th century. The King ordered the release of a ship of the Prince of Castile and some Scots merchants driven into ...
Filey and the gales of 1860,1867,1869, 1880 From the book "Filey - a Yorkshire fishing town" by Irene E Allen and Andrew A Todd THE GALES OF 1860,1867,1869 AND 1880 It was bad weather, however, which was the commonest risk to ...
Filey and the Great War - minesweeping and influenza From the book "Filey - a Yorkshire fishing town" by Irene E Allen and Andrew A Todd Naturally it was at sea that Filey men were most involved in the First World War. All Filey fishe...
Filey and the sea This page features articles on this website that mention Filey in some way. 1799 - a great storm off Filey Bridge and a famous rescue A great storm off Filey Bridge and a famous rescue in 1799 The following ...
Climbing the cliffs in filey in 1779 A gentleman visiting Scarborough made a fishingexpedition along the coast in 1779. He kept a journalwhich descibed his landing. At some point he caught amackerel and some fine salmon trout. Filey was not yeta s...
Filey fishermen in 1862 - yawls and cobles Every place has its characteristic, and that of Filey is its hardy race of fishermen, stout, broad-chested, wide-shouldered; blunt and honest in speech, but kindly-hearted and open to every advance of tru...
Filey Fishermen lost at sea Here are some plaques to Filey Fishermen lost at sea. They are in St Oswold's Church, Filey. ...
The Filey fishery Published in History and antiquities of Filey in the county of York by John Cole 1832 Fishing at Filey is carried on at four distinct periods of the year; the first is when the large boats are fitted out, in the middle or end ...
The Filey Flither girls A few years ago Yorkshire TV released a program made by a husband and wife Glen Crawford and Ann Morell-Crawford. This documentary presented an evocative and haunting insight into the lives of the Filey flither girls. These...
The Filey Lifeboat - its origins Published in History and antiquities of Filey in the county of York by John Cole 1832 The frequent shipwrecks which happen in Filey- bay and the vicinity, in the winter season, is appalling to humanity, and must...
The history of Filey Lifeboats From the book "Filey - a Yorkshire fishing town" by Irene E Allen and Andrew A Todd THE FILEY LIFEBOAT It was inevitable that Filey men should have been regularly involved with the Filey Lifeboat, eit...
Scarborough Fire Brigade In 1847 Scarborough Corporation created an organised fire brigade using equipment provided by various insurance companies and appointing a Fire Brigade Superintendent. The photograph display depicts the development of the ...
First battle of Ypres 1914 - by Paul Allen R.I.P. - Second Lieutenant Dudley Luis Tavores Fernandes - Private Charles Allison - Lance Sergeant George Edward Newsome - Private Lewis Newsome - Private Walter Thompson - Private William Edward C...
1914 - ‘Private Jack’s Medals’ - "First Wipers" - By Paul Allen R.I.P. Private John Megginson By the end of ‘First Wipers’ during November 1914, the 2nd Battalion of the Yorkshire had been a mer...
Scarborough Fish in Mediaeval Monasteries Yorkshire saw the foundation of many Norman monasteries, mostly in the 12th century. The prayer-full lives of the monks and nuns were intended to be governed by rules of poverty, chastity, and obedience. S...
Scarborough Harbour fish landings logbook: Harbour Fish Statistics September 1962- March 1997 inc. Stone, Value and Dues. Scarborough Herring Landings. Download pdf here Year ...
Fish sold for manure This story appeared in a series of articles by Forrest Frank in 1920 in the Scarborough Daily Post - This story came from Captain Wilson When I was a lad, the fishing boats consisted chiefly of cobles that lined and trawled...
A fisherman's pub in Scarborough Irene Carver and her husband John owned a Scarborough pub, the Lord Nelson, on Victoria Road. Owing to John Carver's connections with the fishing industry it was a fisherman's pub. Irene and John Car...
Scarborough fishermen and the U-Boats by Godfrey Arthur An Article by Arthur Godfrey This year has seen the seventieth anniversary of the darkest days that Yorkshire fishermen have ever known, for in the three years of World War 1 beginning w...
Fishermen tell the politicians what they think in 1883 In late September and October,1883 Scarboroughs fishing community was talking about a new Act of Parliament concerning the fishing industry. Yet more regulations had been put down and the fish...
Scarborough's Fishermen versus Firemen Football match on Boxing Day Every year people congregate on the South Bay beach in Scarborough. They watch the Fishermen versus the Firemen football match and then usually move on to the Harbour quayside...
Fishing Boots The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre was given, by Mrs Wardman, a lovely pair of locally made old leather sea-boots. For retired local fisherman, Allan Roberts, they brought back memories of working for the business that made the...
Fishing cobble founders off Scarborough The following news story was provided by Marie Williams from Grimsby. It refers to William Jennison who was her Great Great Grandfather. The following news story appeared in the Glasgow Herald Newspaper 1...
Fishing farming and tourism in the early Filey - 1805 Filey fishermen are mentioned in ancient documents long before any are known at Scarborough. Even today, some old Scarborough fishing families have Filey roots. And yet Filey was as much a farm...
The fishing fleets of the 1920's - Hulls Gamecock fleet Today, the great fishing fleets have disappeared. A modern trawler can catch as much as whole fleets did in the past. The Gamecock fleet, which sailed out of Hull, comprised of 49 steam t...
Notes from an unknown fisherman/coble builder in the Staithes /Whitby area collected in 1973/74 by the late Tony Stephenson and donated by his wife Susan to SMHC in 2019 . I started going to the fishing cobles when I was 12 years old (1922) ...
Flamborough coble disasters An article from the Scarborough Mercury of February 5th 1911. entitled "DISASTROUS STORM - SCARBORO' RESCUES - LOSS OF LIFE AT FLAMBOROUGH - OTHER COBLE CALAMITIES" A sudden and very violent storm of wi...
Flamborough Head This page features articles on this website that mention Flamborough in some way. 200 year history of Scarborough's RNLI The 200 Year History of Scarborough's RNLI BACKGROUND Many meetings and much private...
The fishing community in Flamborough head - superstition and bad luck Fishing communities were famed for their belief in the strangest superstitions. The local superstitions were well known. Anyone with any sense did not attempt to break them. Eve...
1915 - Flanders & France - [July-December 1915] R.I.P. - Corporal George Robert Bolton - Sergeant Henry Allison - Private Joseph Samuel Young - Private John Edgar Young - Temporary Captain Humphrey Worthington Wilson - Private John Rober...
Flanders - World War One battle 1915 R.I.P. - Gunner James William Clarke - Gunner Joseph Rowbottom - Gunner George Robinson - Bombardier Tom Adamthwaite Carr - Lance Corporal Ernest Jackson - Private Thomas Harry - Private George Albert La...
The battle of Flanders June and July 1916 R.I.P. - Private William Earl Jarvis - Second Lieutenant William Andrew Turnbull - Private Robert Harland In the summer of 1916 the Territorial 5th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment who were in pos...
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 battle of Flers Courcelette 1916 - the Somme R.I.P. Private Thomas Johnson Mainprize Private Thomas Peacock Lance Sergeant George William Hogg Second Lieutenant Matthew Henry Fell Sergeant Herbert Gill Private Albert Costello Second L...
Flither lasses hunting for bait This story appeared in a series of articles by Forrest Frank in 1920 in the Scarborough Daily Post - This story came from Captain John Wilson There had always been a little trawling, and I believe some of the...
Food and conditions on sailing ships The following story is based upon a real life account written by Forrest Frank based upon a story by Captain John Wilson. These appeared in the Scarborough Daily Post in 1920 as part of the 'Sea Dogs' s...
The Foreshore in olden times 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 &q...
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, ...
THE DEATH OF YOUNG FRANK BAYES, age 24, by granddaughter of James Ruffen Bayes On December 8th,1954 three scarborough Lifeboatmen lost their lives. Amongst them was young Frank Bayes. Local Ann Moncrief remembers this day well. Her uncl...
Scarborough Fisherman Fred Normandale Fred has now written five books about his life as a fisherman and bottom ender in Scarborough's old town. They give a good insight into a way of life that has now vanished. They are availa...
German bombardment - the funerals An article from the Scarborough Mercury 24th December 1914 entitled "FUNERALS OF VICTIMS - SCENE AT CEMETERY" The Dean Road district presented a funeral aspect on Saturday, when several of t...
Each family & company had their own steam boiler funnel design. Here are a few from Scarborough: ApplebyBrogden Cammish Connie Cooperative Cra...
Funny stories from the age of sailing ships in Scarborough The stories below appeared in a series of articles by Forrest Frank in 1920 in the Scarborough Daily Post - This page features some amusing stories from that time How Joe Salmon trapped...
Great Gales of the 1800s From the book 'North Sea fishers and Fighters' by Walter Wood (1911) I do not know - I doubt if anyone can tell - how many lives the North Sea gales have claimed amongst the fishermen, nor how often it has...
Gallipoli - "The Imperials" 1915 R.I.P. - Private Ernest Scott Petch - Private Edward Found - Lance Corporal Robert Green - Private Douglas Constable - Private Percy Lawty - Lance Corporal Horace Harding - Private Samuel Dixon - ...
The Colonials - Gallipoli 1915 R.I.P. Private Herbert Gladstone Howlett Sergeant Edmond Sleightholm Signaller Charles Sidney Simpson Private John Collier Trooper Allan Stephenson A little while before Britain had declared war on Germany in...
Sideshows of World War One The following are first hand quotes and diary extracts taken from Paul Allen's book 'Neath a foreign sky' Extract:Gallipoli A veteran of three years hard fighting with the Naval Division, Clarkson had ini...
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...
The Royal Marines at Gavrelle R.I.P. - Private Harold Swalwell - Lance Corporal Wilfred Swalwell Virtually forgotten in the never ending saga of the First World War, Gavrelle, a small North Eastern French village positioned at the eastern end...
George Armstrong & Scarborough Marine boatyards Alan Parker was the former owner of Scarborough Marine Engineers (SME) successor to Gordon Armstrong Marine on Sandside, next to the boat chandler shop. SME was the last yard to build ...
The George Coull collection of photographs The George Coull collection of maritime photos was generously donated to Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre by Mr. Coull during his lifetime but was so large it had to be transported from Aberdeen to Sc...
George Moray Stephenson, second owner of Zane Grey rod & reel. Born 26th August 1906 at 6 Windsor Road, Saltburn by the Sea. Yorkshire Parents George (a Merchant) and Esther Mary, In 1911 they were still living at 6....
A Short Biography of George Scales George Scales (1917 – 2005) George spent his entire life in Scarborough (although, I believe his first few months were lived in Filey). His parents, Thomas Scales and Edith (ne...
German account of the raid on Scarborough An article from the Scarborough Pictorial Friday January 15th, 1914, entitled "SCARBOROUGH AS GREAT ENGLISH PORT - GERMAN DESCRIBES RAID - 'FULL BROADSIDE EVERY TIME'". It is a first hand...
German bombardment of Scarborough Some short extracts from the Scarborough Pictorial after the German bombardment of Scarborough in 1914. SOUTH STREET A large hole was made, the side and front part of the shop - in South Street - were blown ...
German colonies in China During World War One British Naval superiority helped them capture German colonies throughout the world. This story tells of one Scarborough sailors experience in China. This appeared in the Scarborough Pictorial on 30th D...
Bombardment - German newspaper reports An article from the 30th December, 1914 entitled "SCAROROUGH HARBOUR AN IMPORTANT HARBOUR - WHEAT AS AN EXPORT - WHAT THE GERMANS SAY." While most the German papers profess to regard the raid on...
German raid - shell passed between two people A story from the Scarborough Pictorial 23rd December 1914 describing a close shave with a German shell during the German bombardment of 1914 At the back of 54, Ramsey Street, a shell went through th...
German raid - stories from Scarborough Some snippets of news taken from the Scarborough papers after the German bombardment in 1914 DAMAGE AT THE CRESCENT Houses in Belvoir-terrace and The Crescent suffered greatly. Mrs Keble of No. 6 Belvoi...
German U-boat sinks 11 Scarborough trawlers in one night - World War One. On 25th September, 1916 practically all of the Scarborough Trawling fleet was wiped out in a single night by a U-Boat attack. Eleven trawlers were sunk from Scarborough amon...
German raid on Scarborough - a German view Article from the 20th April 1917 in the 'Scarborough Mercury' entitled "An echo of the German bombardment" A British officer during a recent push on the Western front entered an aband...
German raid on Scarborough - Gladstone road IN GLADSTONE ROAD Wednesday December 23rd 1914. - THE BOMBARDMENT OF SCARBOROUGH As the second bombardment commenced shells burst in rapid succession in the Gladstone road district. The roof of a hous...
Gladstone road school records The Gladstone Road School log book states that on the 16th December, 1914 "German raid on Scarborough. Fortunately it occurred before school. It commenced at eight and lasted about 40 minutes. The school hall ...
The Globemakers The curious story of an ancient craft. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/globemakers-9781526650870/ Peter Bellerby is the founder of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, the world's only truly bespoke makers of globes. His team of...
Godfrey Sheader - stories of the herring fleet and Lifeboats Reproduced from an old article Thursday, 22nd August 1929 in the Scarborough Post - an interview with an old Scarborough fisherman and lifeboatman - Godfrey Sheader Old Godfrey Sheade...
Government report of bombardment Article from the 23rd December, 1914, in the Scarborough Pictorial which describes the describes the Government's version of what happened when Scarborough was bombarded by the Germans. AN OLD LADY'S ORD...
Grade 1 & Grade 2 listed buildings in Scarborough Natural History Museum (Woodend) Villa 1835-40 St Martin's Vicarage Vicarage probably later than 1862 ...
The history of the Graham Sea Training School The School building was provided by the Mayor Mr C C Graham in 1918. He bought the building and donated it to Scarborough Corporation. Paradise House is situated just beneath the castle - a large house...
Letter from 'Daddy' in Mess 1 HMS Revenge, 10am on Thursday November 21st 1918. My dear Billy, I want you to save this letter till the end of your life for the history it will contain will give you and Edward the liberty for which mo...
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...
Grimsby Docks: http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/the-decline-of-grimsby-docks-an-illustrated-history Fishing history: http://www.lincolnshirelife.co.uk/posts/view/grimsbys-fishing-heritage Sail trawler Esther: htt...
A brilliant article on Grimsby fishermen at work and war by John Clifford This is the extensively illustrated story of James Clifford, who left Derby aged 15 in 1894 and became a ‘fisherlad’ apprentice in Grimsby. Read about life at se...
Gristhorpe Bay - privateers, rights to wrecks and periwinkles The following excepts are taken from the history of Gristhorpe by Lady Diana Beswick. They feature many extracts from the diaries of William and George Beswick. The Beswicks have lived ...
Gristhorpe man - the reaction of Victorians Every one in 21st century Scarborough is well aware that the refurbished Rotunda Museum displays the Gristhorpe Man, who apparently walked this locality far more than 2100 years ago. He looks his a...
In 2014 we put on a major exhibition about the Graham Sea Training School. Many old pupils visited and donated photographs and information about the school, which was held in high esteem. We now have several huge files available to v...
German raid - Guisborough recruitment meeting Article from the Scarborouh Mercury describing a recuitment meeting for the army in Guisborough. The bombardment of Scarborough provided a great boost to recruitment. The article was entitled "KAI...
Hangings and Shipwrecks - Life onshore and off shore in scarborough George Tinker described harbour events at Scarborough. There was the singular instance of no ship in the harbour except new ships on the 28th June 1814. Shipbuilder Joseph Heward ...
Scarborough's harbour and the coal trade. Thomas Hinderwell 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 f...
Scarborough Harbour 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 R...
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 Harbour quarrel 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...
Scarborough Harbour Commission Minute Book for WW2 period, 1939 to 1945. 01/02/39: Issue of congestion of people on the pier in evenings at weekends should be resolved by the ticket kiosk for the Coronia and Royal Lady closing whilst the boats...
Harbourmaster's logbooks 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 a...
The German bombardment of Hartlepool in the First World War in 1914 Article about the German raid on Hartlepool MANY CASUALTIES AT HARTLEPOOL - TERRITORIALS AMONGST THE KILLED - SALVATION ARMY ADJUTANT FATALLY INJURED The firing upon the Har...
The Harwood and Bullamore fishing familys This family history features the Harwood and Bullamore fishing families and was typed up by Ian Hollingsworth who had a keen interest in family history. He worked at the Scarborough Evening News and died i...
Harwood Brierleys description of Scarborough harbour at the opening of the 20th century Harwood Brierley described Scarborough harbour somewhat romantically at the opening of the 20th century. "Then come the tiers of the red roofed fisherme...
Scarborough fishing families - The Harwood family This page features articles which mention the Harwood families in some way. 1799 - a great storm off Filey Bridge and a famous rescue A great storm off Filey Bridge and a famous rescue ...
The history of the Hatherleigh, side winder trawler. An article by Matthew Newsome about the history of the Hatherleigh. She had a strong connection with Scarborough up until the end of 2013 as she was owned by a member of the Scarborough Sub-Aqua...
Havens on the North Yorkshire coast. An old historian called Holinshed listed "such ports and creeks as our seafaring men do note for their benefit" upon the coast of Yorkshire in 1596. This was in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, t...
German bombardment on Scarborough - Hayburn wyke An article entitled "THE DASH ON SCARBORO: As witnessed from Cloughton and Hayburn Wyke. New facts disclosed." from 24th December, edition of the Scarborough Mercury A remarkable fact w...
Henry Freeman - a famous Whitby lifeboat man Henry Freeman is a famous name in Whitby Lifeboat history. He was the sole survivor of the 1861 Lifeboat disaster. It all began on the morning of February 9th 1861. The people of Whitby woke up to a fie...
The Visit of Princess Mary To Scarborough 1927 Today a Royal visit can go almost unnoticed. There are so many distractions in terms of media. Yet in the 1920's Princess Mary visited the town and the whole town seemed to turn out. She had come ...
The loss of the Scarborough trawler Heritage in 1993 Fishermen and their families are aware of the dangers in the industry. Yet when tragedy strikes it always seems so unexpected. They somehow think accidents will happen to others - it won't h...
An account from the "Yarmouth Independent" of 8 October 1910: FISHER LASSIES’ GRIEF. An impressive scene was witnessed at Scarborough at the funeral of a young Scotch fisher girl, Margaret Jane Thompson, of Fraserburgh, who died in...
Herring Fisher Lasses Scarborough was the 5th largest herring port in the country at one time. The herring shoals swam past Scarborough in August and attracted fishermen from Scotland, the South Coast and Holland. The harbour was so full of boats ...
Herring fishing in Scarborough This page features articles on this website that mention herring in some way. 1000 years of fishing 1000 years of fishing The following is a summary of the arguments of Professor Callu...
The history of the herring fishing in the North Sea This article is based on an old history published in the local newspaper. This writer knew little of the migrations of herring. The science in those days was really quite basic. Fishing of her...
Scarborough's Hick family: a shipping family This article is written by John Hick. It describes his family and their shipping interests in Scarborough. Usually it is only noble or notable families that have a family tree going back bef...
High Wood on the Somme 1916 R.I.P. - Captain Sidney Wheater Midway between Martinpuich and the neighbouring village of Flers stood High Wood. Known by the locals as the Bois Foucaux, the wood stood on a ridge scarcely a hundred feet high, it n...
Pozieres - Hill 160 - The battle of the somme Standing on a high ridge overlooking the British positions the heavily fortified village of Pozieres had been a thorn in the side of Fourth Army since the fourteenth of July. Nearly two weeks and mu...
Hispaniola The Hispaniola Aquarium In 1950 Walt Disney released their first completely live action film, Treasure Island, based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 novel. The ship they used for the Hispaniola was brought to Scarborough and t...
Historical Audit Scarborough Harbour Click Here for PDF of Historical Audit of Scarborough Harbour​ ...
John Rushton MBE (1927-2013) was a local historian and founding member of the SMHC. He carried out extensive research into the town and port. The eleven 'position papers' that follow show that work. John was in his 80s when he wrote...
Here is the tenth "position paper" for the 2012 Harbour Research project. Corrections and additions are welcomed. The purpose of the document is to seek people who will undertake serious research on aspects of the history of the h...
Here is the eleventh "position paper" for the Harbour Research project. Corrections and additions are welcomed. The purpose of the document is to seek people who will undertake serious research on aspects of the history of the ha...
Position Paper.- Harbour Research No 12. J.Rushton.2012 Scarborough and the Royal Navy etc. Additions and corrections are welcomed to this introductory note on connections between Scarborough and the royal Navy. The ...
Here is the second "position paper" for the 2012 Harbour Research project. Corrections and additions are welcomed. The purpose of the document, with others to come, is to seek people who will undertake serious research on aspects of th...
Here is the third "position paper" for the 2012 Harbour Research project. Corrections and additions are welcomed. The purpose of the document, with others to come, is to seek people who will undertake serious research on aspects of the...
Here is the fourth "position paper" for the Harbour Research project. Corrections and additions are welcomed. The purpose of the document, with others to come, is to seek people who will undertake serious research on aspects of the history ...
Here is the fifth "position paper" for the 2012 Harbour Research project. Corrections and additions are welcomed. The purpose of the document is to seek people who will undertake serious research on aspects of the history of the harbou...
Here is the sixth "position paper" for the 2012 Harbour Research project. Corrections and additions are welcomed. The purpose of the document is to seek people who will undertake serious research on aspects of the history of the ...
Here is the seventh "position paper" for the Harbour Research project. Corrections and additions are welcomed. The purpose of the document is to seek people who will undertake serious research on aspects of the history of the harb...
Here is the eighth "position paper" for the 2012 Harbour Research project. Corrections and additions are welcomed. The purpose of the document is to seek people who will undertake serious research on aspects of the history of the harbo...
Here is the ninth "position paper" for the Harbour Research project. Corrections and additions are welcomed. The purpose of the document is to seek people who will undertake serious research on aspects of the history of the ...
The History of the Scarborough Fishing Industry For hundreds of years the Scarborough fishing industry chugged along at the same pace. The fishermen paid tithes to the monastries for the right to fish the seas. The industry never really took off b...
History of the Whitby whaling industry A Picture of Whitby and Its Environs By George Young 1824 It was in the year 1753, that the port of Whitby began to be concerned in the whale-fishery, Two ships sailed hence for Greenland in that year; and...
HM Submarine G3 After WW1 many wartime ships were being sold off for scrap by the government. In November 1921 a Sunderland scrap company acquired H.M. Submarine G3 and in December towed it, with a crew of three on board, up the North Sea. As ...
The Scarborough Maritime Heritage centre was given two photograph albums by a lady whose neighbour had passed away. She knew nothing about the man or his family but wanted these amazing maritime history photographs to be saved. They show ...
The trawler Doris Burton and battleship HMS Formidable R.I.P. - Skipper John William Truefitt - Deckhand Robert Jowsey - First Mate Absolem Cave - Deckhand Robert Jowsey - Trimmer William Reynolds - Cook Thomas Leslie Harwood - Deckhand Joh...
HMS HASTY The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre was donated some World War II mementos of a Royal Navy destroyer that Scalby District and the Borough of Scarborough “adopted” at the beginning of 1942. The shield, along with a pho...
HMS Hood & Repulse visit Scarborough This programme was sent in by Andy Wood who was in the Royal Navy. His relatives used to visit Scarborough regularly from Doncaster and the programme came via his grandmother or great aunt. ...
HMS Scarborough There were many ships named after the town of Scarborough including several HMS Scarboroughs. We have the crest plaque badge of one of the last HMS Scarboroughs that was decommsioned and scrapped by the Royal Navy in 1977. ...
HMS Scarborough Tankard A tankard belonging to Commander Frank H Feest BSc RN was donated to us by his widow, Barbara. Frank joined the Royal Navy in 1956 and was appointed to HMS Scarborough in 1961. He was the Instructor officer to the Squadron....
Scarborough fishing families - the Hodds family This page features articles on this site which mention the Hodds fishing family in some way Cowling fishing family of Filey Scarborough and Flamborough The Cowling fishing family This page feat...
Hodds Family history - the U-Boats The following article is based upon the history of the Hodds family - a local Scarborough fishing and seafaring family. The oldest member of which was Joshia Hodds. He had two sons - Horace and Walter Hodds. Both...
Scarborough hospital for mariners 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, XX...
Hotchkiss Deck Gun - anti-submarine trawlers In 1986 a WW1 anti-submarine trawler deck gun was caught in the nets of the 'Pioneer' about 7 miles off Scarborough, towards Bempton. Skipper, Jimmy Whitlow, called in the help of two other f...
Hotels & boarding / lodging houses As Britain's first seaside resort, Scarborough led the way in supplying lodgings for visitors. During the 18th century the rich and famous visited Scarborough and their names were published in the l...
Hotels And Places Of Entertainment in World War Two With the commencement of hostilities all places of entertainment closed down. The Floral Hall closed on 2 September, 1939 and the cinemas followed on the 4th although at the Odeon Cinema the Caf&...
Huge mines in World War One The following are first hand quotes and diary extracts relating to the use of mines in the Great War. They are taken from Paul Allens book 'Neath a foreign sky.' Extract: Huge mines The Somme July 1916 ...At ...
Hull History In 1299 Kings Town was granted borough status by King Edward I. The old town faced the river Hull, not the Humber. In the 1330s King Edward II licensed the ditch and wall using 5 million bricks with 30 towers and 4 gates. The wa...
From Hull to Nova Scotia Before the railways reached the coast in 1845, the Yorkshire emigrant seeking fresh opportunities in Canada or the new United States of America, sailed from Whitby, Scarborough or Hull. Emigration agents advertised in the ...
Humber Keel The last Humber Keel and Sloop are still sailing out of Hull's marina. You can find out more about these nearly 100 year old boats from their website http://keelsandsloops.org.uk. Here is a 30 second video of it...
Hunger at sea An extract from Memorials of Scarborough entitled 'An authentic narrative'. In the year 1808, the ship "Bon Accord," of Aberdeen, 131 tons, Alexander Morrison, master, sailed from Aberdeen to Paoicton, in Nova Sc...
The worst day in Fileys history - a hurricane The Scarborough Mercury, of 2nd June,1860 reported a hurricane that hit Filey the previous Monday. It was truly "the worst ever" calamity to have hit the Filey. It came "so suddenly upon...
Iceland trawler This is a story from Scarborough College Magazine 1959-62 by D.N. Brown Va By fishing I don't mean a weekend escapade with rod and line, or mooning by a river or lake trying to catch Monday's dinner, but deep sea fishing...
Scarborough's heyday of Inns, Smuggling and Illicit stills Since Roger the Vintner has sold ale and wine in 1175 to the burgesses of the new borough of Scarborough this town has imported wine, and, until recent years, brewed ale. The early ...
Instructions to sailors - Flamborough Head Dutch fishermen came every year, for centuries, to follow the herring down the east coast. Their larger vessels were called busses and they developed very effective fishing techniques. Their merchantmen s...
Jack Flint The following article was printed on March 9 1867 in "All the year round" Counterfeits and counterfeit antiques have been known to the world in every age. Mr. John Evans, F.R.S., has exposed the manufacture of all kinds of ...
James Moody was the sixth officer on the bridge of the Titanic and was born in Granville Road, Scarborough. There is a blue plaque on the house. Here is a picture of his birth certificate: ...
Scarborough fishing families - the Jenkinson family This page features articles on this site which mention the Jenkinson fishing family in some way. 32 Sandside My grandfather's house at 32 Sandside The following story was su...
Tragedies in the Jenkinson fishing family in Filey From the book "Filey - a Yorkshire fishing town" by Irene E Allen and Andrew A Todd FILEY TRAGEDY - LOST AT SEA The risks involved in seafaring are horrendous. Yet with some justif...
The Filey Jenkinsons - a common ancestry From the book "Filey - a Yorkshire fishing town" by Irene E Allen and Andrew A Todd It would be expected in a community as closely related as the Filey fishing families there would be folk memo...
Jim Sheader - fishing superstitions Fisherman, Jim Sheader, talks about fishing superstitions. The following text is a transcript of this video My particular superstition is bob tails - I won't say that, but I don't know why....
John Clarkson and coble Margaret R II Fred Walkington MBE, of Bridlington, has gathered some amazing photographs of John Clarkson building the coble Margaret R II in 1978. If you wish to know more please contact us. Here are a few o...
John Dean, Only Survivor of the Ship Sussex The story of John Dean was the talk of all the coffee houses in London in the mid eighteenth century. This book rekindles that long forgotten tale of a merchant seaman of humble origins from Scarboro...
John Ley A Forgotten Talent by Johannes Erdmann John A. Ley, a Scarborough man, built splendid little yachts. Only one of them became famous when a German yachtsman sailed the 23-foot-sloop ‘Kathena’ around the world. But it w...
John Ley A Forgotten Talent by Johannes Erdmann John A. Ley, a Scarborough man, built splendid little yachts. Only one of them became famous when a German yachtsman sailed the 23-foot-sloop ‘Kathena’ around the world. But it w...
John Parkin - Scarborough sailmaker turned bailiff. Wyvill Todd in 1782 and Thomas Parkin in 1796 were Scarborough sailmakers. Little is known of them or of others in the craft. Their sail lofts were near the harbour. Both Scarborough and Whitby a...
John Paul Jones and the battle off Flamborough Head, September 1779. Some extracts from the Family magazine, Volume 3, about John Paul Jones John Paul was born at Arbigland, in Scotland, on the sixth of July, 1747, and the scenery and asso...
John Rushton MBE (1929-2013) Founding member of the Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre John was born in Luton on 21 June 1929 to Robin Rushton, then clerk, later accountant and champion chess player, and Annie Howlett, then forewoman. Joh...
A Whitby Pirate - John Stephenson In the year 1721 the fine frigate ship Onslow, Captain Gee, Commander, bound for Cape Coast Castle, was riding off Caetos, on the African Coast, having called there for water and other necessities. Suddenly a pira...
John Swift's first ever pleasure trip on a keel boat THE CALLING OF THE SEA When I say "pleasure trip". This is not one the cruises on the passenger boats from the middle pier. This is the real thing! To get woken up at some unear...
John Wetherell The Adventures of John Wetherell by John Wetherell, edited by C. S. Forester John Wetherell was a native of Whitby, one of the thirteen children of Nathan Wetherell, a whaling captain. He was born in 1780, and his father died ...
Scarboroughs Sea Fisheries Exhibition - John Woodall Famous Scarborians: John Woodall Woodall - Victorian Benefactor of North Sea Fishing by Anne and Paul Bayliss. Reproduced from the Scarborough and District Civic Society, December 2008 by permis...
Scarborough fishing families - the Johnson family This page features articles on this site which mention the Johnson fishing family in some way. A to Z listing of Famous Scarborough people SMHC Archive File information held o...
Joseph Sawdon In our collection is a battered little navy blue booklet, about the size of an old-style British passport, is the Continuous Certificate of Discharge issued to Joseph Sawdon. It is special because we also have lots of supportive...
Joshua Rowntree's account of wreck at Scarborough A few years later a young solicitor (Joshua Rowntree) told of the wreck of the Mary on 26 October 1869, in a letter written that night. He had left his office at the end of the day's work a...
Battle of Jutland 1916 ‘Something appears to be wrong with our bloody ships today’R.I.P. - Able Seaman Edward Ruston Reed - Private Thomas William Reed - Stoker Thompson Allen Duncan - Stoker Robert Raine - Stoker Henry Charles Ta...
Ketch is swamped off Scarborough The following article was printed in the Scarborough Mercury on the 15th November 1901 and was entitled "The terrific tempest - in Scarborough Bay - exciting scenes and gallant lifeboat rescues. Terrible tales...
King Richard III house on Sandside Article written by Jeremy Clark. Download by clicking here: ...
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 ...
German raid on Scarborough - Kings sympathy An article from the Scarborough Pictorial 23rd December 1914, entitled "ROYAL SYMPATHY KINGS THOUGHTS FOR STRICKEN TOWNMESSAGE TO BEREAVED AND WOUNDED" following the German bombardment of Scarb...
Kolberg lays a minefield off Scarborough Most people in Scarborough know about the German bombardment on the town in 1914. Less is known about the deaths caused by sea mines which beset the coast for years afterwards. There were three Ge...
A lack of Water at sea - condensing The following story is based upon real life accounts of life at sea. They appeared in the Scarborough Daily Post in 1920 as part of the 'Sea Dogs' stories by Forrest Frank. Condensing water at sea - i...
Wreck of the SS Lady Anne - 16th February 1917 At 2.40 p.m. the LADY ANN was proceeding on a S by E course, with Scarborough bearing W by N at about 3 miles, when there was a terrific explosion. A survivor T. Collinson A. B. said that “The b...
The Lady Dock - a small slipway on the North Bay's Marine Drive At the beginning of the 21st Century the Marine Drive sea defences were reinforced. During these changes the 'Lady Dock' - a small slipway on the North Bay was built over....
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...
Life at sea - Scarborough man The following is from 'Scarborough' - a National Union of Teachers Conference Souvenir. 1935. Edited by F Drake THE GRAHAM SCHOOL SEA TRAINING SCHOOL BY F FEATHER. The school was established in 1917 as a...
Life in the Old Town - the fishing families "When I was about 10 year old I was playing wave dodging on the lifeboat slip way and a wave hit me and pulled me down the slip way and old man gabber pulled me out got me be scruff of neck pul...
Life of John Dean - Scarborough sailor The History and Antiquities of Scarborough by Thomas Hinderwell. 1832 John Dean Of the early life of this brave seaman, nothing is known, more than that he was born at Scarborough, of poor parents,...
Experiments into new lifebelts on the Humber in 1861 In the 19th century the loss of life at sea was quite high.The seas were just as treacherous but the ships were just not as able to handle the high seas. The sailors were not in posession of sat...
The early years of the Scarborough Lifeboat This chapter first appeared in Godfrey Arthurs book the Scarborough Lifeboats Since medieval times, the town of Scarborough had been important to mariners for its "harbour of refuge", where ...
Lighthouse damaged in German bombardment Article from the 23rd December, 1914, in the Scarborough Pictorial detailing the damage to the Lighthouse caused by the German bombardment of Scarborough. LIGHTHOUSE BEING PULLED DOWN - UNSAFE AFTER DAMA...
Trinity House maintains over 60 lighthouses around England, Wales, the Channel Islands and Gibraltar. These highly visual aids to navigation range from isolated offshore towers exposed to the open sea — such as Eddystone, Bishop Rock&...
Lighting the Holderness beacons for the Spanish Armada When the Spanish Armada came to England in 1588, orders were given for the beacons to be watched along the long Holderness coast and in other parts of the East Riding. These were sited so that...
1914 - The death of the ‘live bait squadron’ R.I.P. - Leading Seaman Harry Wilson - Petty Officer Alfred Eaman - Leading Seaman Nicholas Odgers Whilst the Army had conducted its operations on land, the Royal Navy had been as equa...
The Life of Scarborough Fishermen "6 of us here where our lives depended on getting the right conditions, and there was many a time when you got caught out at sea and the weather sometimes got that so bad that you could not get back into Scar...
The old Long Room in Sandside A block of buildings on Scarborough's Sandside has had a remarkable history. Many others along the front would make the transition from mariner's houses, fishermen's cottages and ship builder's worksho...
Lord Beauclerk was involved in the famous shipwreck disaster, read more here: Lord Beauclerk ...
Lord Beauclerk a hero This article was provided by Carol and Malcolm Appleby who found a reference to the lifeboat disaster of 1861. It was in the Scarborough Mercury of Friday, August 11th, 1911. This year, on the 2nd of November, will occur t...
The loss of the Blucher 1915 The German bombardment of Scarborough in December 1914 was followed by another attempted raid in January 1915. This time the Royal navy was ready and the raiding party got caught. One of the ships involved in the raid ...
Loss of the Scarborough Lifeboat November 2nd, 1861 The lifeboat tragedy of November 2nd,1861 was perhaps the most memorable in Scarborough's RNLI history. It took place just yards off the Spa Walls. It was witnessed by many who watched the dr...
The loss of the Sincere in 1968 The Sincere, registered in Aberdeen as A555 but fishing out of Scarborough, was lost on 28th May 1968. At 3 a.m. in the thick fog she ran aground onto rocks just south of Cayton Bay in an area called Black Horse Roc...
Losses amongst Filey fishing cobles From the book "Filey - a Yorkshire fishing town" by Irene E Allen and Andrew A Todd The coble is for its size, one of the safest boats afloat. But if hit unexpectedly by very heavy sea, it is as vul...
Lost with all hands The following story is based upon a real life account written by Forrest Frank based upon a story by Captain Wyrill. These appeared in the Scarborough Daily Post in 1920 as part of the 'Sea Dogs' stories by Forrest Fran...
Luggers and yawls in the filey fishing industry From the book "Filey - a Yorkshire fishing town" by Irene E Allen and Andrew A Todd LUGGERS AND YAWLS When the Scarborough Register of Sailing and Fishing vessels began in 1786, offsh...
Luxury imports in King Henry VIII's Scarborough Shopping has never been as exotic as in the presentage, when imported essentials and fancy goods come from all over the globe. Scarborough matrons looking for imported luxuries, five hundred and ...
Scarborough Faire Are you going to Scarborough Faire? Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. Remember me to one who lived there. She once was a true love of mine. Have her make me a cambric shirt Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. Without no s...
Great war - machine gun fire The following are first hand quotes and diary extracts which mention machine guns in the First World War. They are taken from Paul Allens book 'Neath a foreign sky.' They help to bring to life the reality of li...
Maggie M Maggie M was the only Scarborough trawler built by the Campbeltown shipyard in Scotland. Skippered by Bob Mainprize. For drawings and information click here ...
Victorian / Edwardian Magic Lantern Slides Before television and cinema, a magic lantern projector was used with hand-painted glass slides. Because the lens inverts the image the slides had to be inserted upside down and back to front. It was for ...
Scarborough fishing families - the Mainprize family This page features articles on this site which mention the Mainprize fishing family in some way. 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster ...
Malaya - battle of Jutland The battle of Jutland, 1916 - a personal account. from the June 16th edition of the Scarborough Mercury, 1916 MORE SCARBOROUGH SAILORS IN JUTLAND BATTLE - HEROIC DEEDS ON THE MALAYA Another Scarborough sailor at pr...
Scarborough bombardment heard at Malton An article entitled "Bombardment heard at Malton" in the "Scarborough Mercury." The big guns from the German bombardment of Scarborough were heard 22 miles away in Malton Although Scar...
Scarborough sailing ship - a man overboard The following story is based upon real life accounts of men washed overboard. They appeared in the Scarborough Daily Post in 1920 as part of the 'Sea Dogs' stories by Forrest Frank. Man lost on...
The Maritime Centre has a varied collection of maps and charts donated to the charity over the years, relating to both Scarborough and elsewhere. CHARTS An Admiralty chart from 1915 showing Scarborough Bay There are three main ty...
The Marine Drive The Marine Drive was the first ever marine carriage drive in the country and was arguably the final and most ambitious project in transforming the town into a modern seaside resort. The Drive, which was constructed primaril...
Maritime Art Scarborough has been called 'The Naples of the North' and many artists have enjoyed painting here. The Scarborough Museums Trust house the town's wonderful collection (http://www.scarboroughmuseumstrust.com/#!scarbor...
Prospect of Scarborough - Maritime Art Archive File List of Contents. Contact us for more information (updated 2015) Artist Allbon, Charles Fredrick 1856-1926 (i) Artist Bailey, Peter Article by Adam Steel (ii) Battl...
Maritime Careers Week 2020 12th to 18th October 2020 For events listings, careers fair, virtual tours etc click here Careers information click here First hand account of working in offshore wind farming by Scarborough's Matt News...
Maritime heritage timeline 6500 BC Britain became an island when the channel plains flooded with rising sea levels. 1600 BC The first craft used by Britons would have been rafts, dugout canoes and coracles. 600 BC Phoenician trade routes to ...
There is a very extensive site maintained by Lars Bruzelius at Upsala, Sweden. His Maritime History Virtual Archives at: http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Nautica.html has many pages of information about maritime history, museums,...
A map of maritime museums in the UK & Ireland compiled by Martin H. Evans and Janet West. © 2010. ...
Mark Riley - superstitions in Scarborough The following was written by Mark Riley, author of "Haunted Scarborough". Whilst researching ghost stories for the book he conducted several interviews with some of the old local fisherman of the...
Martin Frobisher and Scarborough Frobisher, Drake, and Hawkins, some of the great names of England's maritime history lived during the reign of the first Queen Elizabeth. Martin Frobisher came to Scarborough long before he gained great fame as...
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 ...
Scarborough fishing families - The Matson family This page features articles which mention the Matson faily in some way. Cammish, Jenkinson and Sheader Cammish, Jenkinson and Sheader Familys A look at the electoral register i...
Mayors of Scarborough 1836 SAMUEL STANDIDGE BYRON 1836/37 W. HARLAND 1837/38 JOHN HESP 1838/39 THOMAS WEDDELL 1839/40 ...
Mayors statement - Scarborough raid "STATEMENT BY THE MAYOR" in the Scarborough Mercury 24th December following the German bombardment on Scarborough The Mayor, presiding at the police court this morning said that the facts of the war...
Ship’s Medecine Chest This medecine chest is nearly 100 years old and was initially placed on board a steam trawler in the ownership of Scarborough’s most prolific trawler owner, James (Jim) Johnson. His t...
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...
German bombardment - mementoes The Scarborough Mercury also featured the following report on 24th December, 1914 entitled "VISITORS TO SCARBOROUGH - SALE OF PIECES OF SHELL" On Sunday a large number of people visited Scarborough, many...
Ypres - Menin Road Ridge - World War One In Remembrance of; - Private Arhthur Hougson Perryman - Private Harold Cappleman - Private John William Gowan - Corporal George Thompson - Private William White - Rifleman John Ellis - Gunner Walter ...
A Scarborough Merchant - John Rushton Robert Schylbotyll was the ancestor of a Scarborough family who were once well known. He probably came from Northumberland to take up grants of land at two places in Scarborough in 1399 and 1403. His descen...
Scarborough sailing ships - Mercia and A.I. This article appeared first in the Scarborough Evening News in 1934. It was written by Douglas J Boyle. It is not at all easy to build up accounts of our sailing ships from odd conversations we ...
The Mercury reports on the bombardment On the 15th December,1914 Mr A Bell was going about his normal daily work as road foreman in Burniston when an erect gentleman with a white hair and moustache stopped beside him. He said looking towards ...
The Merrie Islington - sunk by a U-boat off Whitby Many of the articles involved on this site involve a personal journey. They link to someones family history which has been meticulously researched. This is one such article. I was contacted by a H...
Casualties of the war in Mesopotamia In Remembrance of; - Private Walter Mawman - Private Richard Humfrays - Private Joseph Hurd - Private James Edwin Darling - Private Harold Mawman - Pioneer Albert Buckton Whittaker - Lieutenant John Lacy...
A migrant from Scarborough In 1774 Thomas Rispin, a farmer from Fangfoss, East Yorkshire together with his friend John Robinson, sailed for Nova Scotia. They spent some months exploring Nova Scotia and New Brunswick noting farming methods, soi...
Migrations of fishing families - Filey - Yarmouth and Ramsgate From the book "Filey - a Yorkshire fishing town" by Irene E Allen and Andrew A Todd MIGRATION OF FISHER FAMILIES The willingness of Filey fishermen to cover large dista...
Minesweeper lost on Christmas day off Scarborough An article from Scarborough Pictorial 30th December 1914 entitled "MORE LIVES LOST: CHRISTMAS DAY TRAGEDY." It describes the sinking of a mine sweeper caused by a mine left by the Kolberg...
Minor operations in World War One R.I.P. - Second Lieutenant Harry Cliff Brown - Private Robert William Normandale - Second Lieutenant Harold Sinclair - Private Henry Ferguson - Private Ernest David Robinson - Private James Fidler - Driver ...
Miss Velocity 1929 – 2005 The article in the Scarborough Evening News for Thursday 23rdJuly 1964, states Miss Velocity was brought to Scarborough in 1929 by Mr Norman Martin. The picture shows her in the South Bay. Norman was an RFC/R...
Missing motor boat returns - Scarborough During the era of sail boats there was considerable danger. The coasts were littered with wrecks as wind and waves drove helpless crews ashore. With the invention of the steam engine boats were a lot safer....
1917 ‘At all costs’ Monchy Le Preux R.I.P. - Private George Arthur Hill - Private George Ernest Colley - Lance Corporal John Stanley Morrison The British 37TH Division had, after vicious fighting, captured the important village o...
Morning Star The following was provided by Richard and Sally Hunt. Its a picture of the steam trawler SH61 the 'Morning Star'. Sally was researching her family tree and the picture. Her great uncle worked on the Morning Star and also three...
Muster Rolls listed the men who crewed the vessels. Scarborough's muster rolls are in the British Library but here is a sample (forname beginning with 'A') from 1747-1765. Name Age Ports Sailed to ...
Narrow escape - Scarborough raid "LADY'S NARROW ESCAPE" in the Scarborough Mercury 24th December. A story from the German bombardment of Scarborough An employee of the Tramway Company relates the narrow escape of a lady, Mrs Colem...
Nautical Language Many words and expressions originate from our relationship with the sea. Some familiar words and phrases come from their use on the sea; from commonly used words like overwhelm (from the English word meaning "to capsize"...
Naval battle off Flamborough Head - Captain Paul Jones The following short extract appeared in 'The life of Paul Jones' By John Henry Sherburne 1825 On the morning of the 23d a fleet of forty-one sail appeared off Flamborough Head, bear...
British Naval Policy 1914 Article from the 23rd December, 1914, in the Scarborough Pictorial which describes the describes the Governments version of what happened when Scarborough was bombarded by the Germans. THE OFFICIAL VERSION - HOW THE EN...
The Navena was lying on its side in Scarborough's South Bay For details see: https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?66007 ...
Navigating the equator and international date line The passenger steamer SS Warrimoo was in the middle of the Pacific on the Equator and 180 degrees away from Grenwich on the International Date Line on New Year's Eve 1899. The conseque...
The use of new tactics and weapons in World War One The following are first hand quotes and diary extracts of the use of new tactics and weapons in the First World War. They are taken from Paul Allens book 'Neath a foreign sky.' Extract...
New York on Scarborough raid 1914 Scarborough Pictorial 23rd December 1914 - what the New York papers had to say about the German raid on Scarborough The "New York Tribune" heads an article, "Crime Against Civilisation," and...
Scarborough newspapers - a rich source of history Local newspapers have been recording events for morethan 150 years. Scarborough and other Yorkshire libraries have good collections of the old papers, often on microfilm. Readers can be booked and ...
No favours for the owners son This story appeared in a series of articles by Forrest Frank in 1920 in the Scarborough Daily Post - This story came from Captain Dresser We sailed in February from Glasgow to Rosario, Robson making the voyage as s...
Wreck of the SS Norhilda - 21st August 1917 The NORHILDA was proceeding north to the Tyne making 7 knots following the line of War Channel Buoys, the wake of a torpedo was seen just before it struck at 4.15 p.m. The explosion blew a large hole on ...
Scarborough fishing families - The Normandale family This page features articles on this site which mention the Normandale fishing family in some way. Attacks On Trawlers in Scarborough in WW2 Attacks On Trawlers in Scarborough i...
Scarborough's oldest skipper - Thomas Normandale Scarborough's oldest trawler skipper, Mr Thomas Normandale, lived to the ripe old age of 84 and lived at 3 Paradise Row. A native of the town had been a master since 18 years o...
North Bay Pier Scarborough's North Bay Pier was opened in 1869. It was part of 'Pier Mania' that was sweeping coastal resorts after the first 'leisure pier' was opened in Blackpool in 1863 and Brighton's West Pier ...
German bombardment - not downhearted Article from the 23rd December, 1914, in the Scarborough Pictorial showing the people of Scarborough were not downhearted after the German bombardment. KEEPING THE FLAG FLYING - SCARBOROUGH MENS BRAVE ACTIO...
Operation Hurricane by John Carr (Ex RN) An account of my journey to the Monte Bello Islands off the NW coast of Australia and Britain’s first atomic bomb test on 3rd October 1952. It was on a cold wet and grey day in early January 1952 t...
Offensive actions in World War One The following are first hand quotes and diary extracts of offensive actions in the First World War. They are taken from Paul Allens book 'Neath a foreign sky.' Extract:The last campaign of the Great Wa...
Officers on leave - German raid An excerpt from an article entitled "Echo of Scarborough bombardment - Did shore leave allow Germans to escape" from 4th February edition of the Scarborough Mercury, 1916 "It is true that on the da...
World War One - Scarborough St Martins R.I.P. - Gunner Fred Harris Coates - Sub Lieutenant William Herbert Clarkson - Corporal Henry Clifford Stephenson - Rifleman Edmund Daws - Second Lieutenant John Francis Newlove No stranger to the dem...
Donation SMHC 1158 - Old Postcards from Ken Adamson. See whole gallery by clicking here Sent from Scarborough to London, Gloucestershire, Huddersfield, Thornton le Dale, Buckinghamshire, Leicester, Wales, Manchester, Harrogate, Wakefield, A...
Scarborough's Old Town 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 ...
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...
Oliver Sarony 1820 - 1879 Sarony was a very early prolific photographer in Scarborough with a huge studio on the South Cliff. Read more about him here: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp06541/oliver-francois-xavier-saronyâ...
Scarborough's War Memorial - Oliver's Mount 'They were a wall unto us by night and by day'… I must have read that inscription on Scarborough's War Memorial on top of Oliver's Mount many times. In the beginning, in...
Olympia The original Olympia building on the sea front was constructed as an exhibition hall for the international fishery and marine exhibition, opening in May 1895. At the time it was the largest hall in Scarborough and could hold 6000 people. C...
Opening rounds August-September 1914 - By Paul Allen In spite of the gathering clouds of war in Europe the British August Bank Holidays of 1914 had gone ahead with most people who could afford to, swarming to the coast for their annual taste of th...
Orphans sent to sea A Mrs M Marshall sent the following email to the Scarborough Maritime centre. It features some interesting information on possible orphans who were sent to Scarborough to go to sea. "Hi. Thought you might find this inte...
Over the top - the Great War The following are first hand quotes and diary extracts of soldiers going over the top into No Mans land in the First World War. They are taken from Paul Allens book 'Neath a foreign sky.' Extract:The last ca...
John Owston - coxswain of Scarborough lifeboat The picture below was kindly donated by the great great granddaughter of John Owston who was probably the most famous coxswain of Scarborough lifeboat. He is often referred to as John Ow...
World War One - Palestine, Salonika and Macedonia R.I.P. - Lieutenant Bryce Douglas - Driver Thomas William Armstrong - Gunner Francis William Collier - Private Albert Loftus - Driver Alfred Henry Hopkins - Private Cyril Vernon Larkin - Gun...
Scarborough Fishing Families - the Pashby family This page features articles on this site which mention the Pashby fishing family in some way. A to Z Listing of Famous Scarborough People SMHC Archive File information held on the follow...
The road to Passchendaele - World War One 1917 In Remembrance of: - Lance Corporal Arthur Graham Burnett - Sergeant Alfred William Burnett - Private George William Burnett - Private Joseph Harrison Marsay - Sergeant Lawrence Mooring - Second...
Passing on our maritime heritage to the younger generation Scarborough Maritime Heritage Project has recently been involved in a pioneering project to bring members of our respected fishing community together with the Old Town's younger genera...
Paying the rent in Herrings at Whitby - John Rushton A Whitby lady called Marsanilla made a donation to the nunnery at Yedingham in the Vale of Pickering in the 12th century. Perhaps she was going to enter that religious house, of which a slight r...
Peasholm Park Naval Battle Peasholm Park Naval Warfare Display In 1927, Mr George Harrocks, Scarborough Corporation Entertainments Manager, came up with the idea of re-enacting, in minature, First World War Deadnought sea battles. The model ships ...
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...
Personal account of 1880 storm at Scarborough From a letter written by a schoolboy in the latter part of the nineteenth century printed in Rowntree's 'History of Scarborough'. I feel I must write you an account of what happened this...
A pilots account during World War One The following are first hand quotes and diary extracts from a pilots flight during the First World War. They are taken from Paul Allens book 'Neath a foreign sky.' Extract: Pilots account Much of...
Pilots or pirates This story appeared in a series of articles by Forrest Frank in 1920 in the Scarborough Daily Post - This story came from Captain Wilson: The procedure for pilotage into Scarborough Harbour was simple. On the Platform there we...
The pirate of the Morning Star Benito De Soto, The pirate of the morning star in the Pirates own book 1837 The following narrative of the career of a desperate pirate who was executed in Gibraltar in the month of January, 1830, is one of two le...
Pirates This page features articles on this website that mention pirates in some way. Books on Pirates & smugglers Links to books & useful websites on pirates & smugglers A general history of pyrates ... Br...
Pirates threaten a Scarborough ship The importance that sailors attach to their provisions and stores is great and sometimes amusing. The Scarborough Barque Migrator, belonging to W and B Fowler and commanded by Captain Hargreave Potter (uncle of ...
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...
John Player & Sons Set of Modern Naval Craft Cigarette Cards 1939 This Modern Naval Craft series came out in 1939, just at the beginning of World War II. In December 1939, HMS Exeter (card 6), engaged the Admiral Graf Spee (card 24) in the...
Scarborough's pleasure boats Scarborough's visitors have always enjoyed trips on the sea and even to Whitby or London in times past. In 2015 only the 'Regal Lady' was operating and the 'Coronia' has been ...
German bombardment of Scarborough - poems Poetry is inspired by events which have deeply stirred our emotions - either for the good or bad. Several poems appeared in the local papers after the bombardment of Scarborough. Here is one example from t...
Maritime related poetry & sea shanties archive file list. Contact us for more information (updated 2015) 1. Matthew Arnold - Dover Beach, reverse - Walt Whitman - O Captain! My Captain 2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - extract from The Rime of t...
Articles on this website that mention the harbour: 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster One of the duties of the lifeboat is to escort fishing boats back to port during bad weather. Storms can whip up ...
Scarborough Port and Harbour Research Project In 2012, John Rushton MBE drew up 11 'position papers' outlining some of the important topics relating to Scarborough's maritime history. Below is the initial list of ideas he had:...
The port of Scarborough in the late 15th Century An article on the port of Scarborough in the late 15th century by John Rushton Scarborough had been an active borough for about three hundred years. The old borough sited on a bounded plot west o...
FISHING BOAT PORT REGISTRATION LETTERS A Aberdeen AA Alloa AB Aberystwyth AD Ardrossan AH Arbroath AR Ayr B Belfast BA Ballantrae BCK Buckie BD Bideford BE Barnstaple BF Banff ...
Porthole in Time: Boxing Day Firemen & Fishermen's football match The Fishermen vs Firemen’s Football Match, held annually on the South Bay sands raises money for the Fishermen and Firemen’s Charity Fund. The tradition bega...
Porthole in Time: Anne Bronte Anne Brontë was born in 1820 near Bradford, the youngest of the Brontë sisters – Charlotte, Emily and Anne – who were well known for their literary talents. While working as a governess for t...
Porthole in Time: Bombardment Scarborough was bombarded by the German navy in World War I. At about 8 a.m. on the morning of 16th December 1914, two German battlecruisers Von Der Tann and Derfflinger approached Scarborough from the north, thro...
Porthole in Time: Cayley Sir George Cayley is believed to have been born at Paradise House, near St Mary’s Church, although St Nicholas Street has also been claimed. He had a good scientific education and inherited his family’s est...
Porthole in Time: Civil War The English Civil Wars were a series of wars in the 17th century between the supporters of Parliament (Parliamentarians or ‘Roundheads’) and supporters of the King (Royalists or ‘Cavaliers&rsq...
Porthole in Time: Cricket Scarborough Cricket Club was formed in 1849 with the first match being played against Filey on rough ground opposite the Queen Hotel on North Marine Road. As the club developed, it played important matches at Castle H...
Porthole in Time: Dinosaurs The Yorkshire Coast is known as the ‘Dinosaur Coast’. 170 million years ago the land that is now Scarborough was in a very different location – around where Morocco is today. At the beginning of th...
Porthole in Time: Fair King Henry III issued a Royal Charter in 1253 granting the borough of Scarborough the right to hold an annual fair for 45 days, from 15th August (the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary) until 29th Septemb...
Porthole in Time: First Resort Scarborough’s beginnings as a spa town date back to the discovery of its apparently medicinal spa waters by one Mrs Thomasin Farrer, who was from a wealthy and influential local background – her fathe...
Porthole in Time: Florence Balgarnie Florence Balgarnie was born in Scarborough in 1856, the daughter of the popular Reverend Robert Balgarnie. While living in Scarborough, she became the secretary of the town’s University Extension Sche...
Porthole in Time: Football Scarborough Football Club was originally formed in 1879 by members of the town’s cricket club, initially playing their matches at the North Marine Road cricket ground. Their first two matches were played as exp...
Porthole in Time: GCHQ According to GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming, Scarborough is home to ‘the oldest, continually operated, signals collection site in the world’. Its history began in 1912 on Sandybed Lane, on the western outskirts...
Porthole in Time: Grand Hotel Following the development of the York-Scarborough railway in 1845, visitors began to arrive in greatly increased numbers. Looking to profit from this increased tourism, a group of Yorkshire businessmen bought a si...
Porthole in Time: Gristhorpe Man Around 4,000 years ago, a warrior chieftain today known as ‘Gristhorpe Man’ was buried in a large oak-tree coffin in a burial mound near Scarborough. This kind of burial is rare, particularly in thi...
Porthole in Time: Holbeck Hotel The Holbeck Hall Hotel began life as a private mansion called Wheatcroft Cliff built for Mr George Alderson-Smith, a local trawler owner. It was converted into a hotel in 1932 by Tom Laughton, brother of Hollywo...
Porthole in Time: Lifeboat Scarborough’s first lifeboat was launched in 1801, one of the first in the country, just behind Sunderland and Montrose the previous year, and was located near today’s Spa Bridge. Newspapers were soon wri...
Porthole in Time: Marine Drive Marine Drive was planned as both a tourist attraction, linking both of Scarborough’s bays, and an important coastal defence, protecting the headland from further erosion. The idea appealed to the Council, a...
Porthole in Time: Open Air Theatre Scarborough’s Open Air Theatre was opened in 1932. It had 7,000 seats, a stage 52m (170 ft) long and cost £11,000 to build. The theatre was part of Borough Engineer Harry Smith’s projec...
Porthole in Time: Oliver's Mount The Oliver’s Mount motorcycle racing circuit came about because of the enthusiasm of the Scarborough and District Motor Club who, inspired by the classic road races taking place elsewhere, had been se...
Porthole in Time: Public Memories As part of the NLHF 'Porthole in Time' project we have gathered the public's memories of Scarborough. Below are a few written examples. Click here for more stories and audio recordings Sca...
Porthole in Time: Railway Scarborough Railway Station, a Grade II listed building, was built on what was then the outskirts of the town in 1845 and opened on 7th July that year. It was built for the York and North Midland Railway and designed ...
Porthole in Time: Romans Britain was a province of the Roman Empire from 43 CE (AD) until the year 410. The Romans moved northwards, reaching modern-day York by 71 CE, where they established a fort following their defeat of the Celtic tribe, t...
Porthole in Time: Shipbuilding Shipbuilding was for centuries a major industry in Scarborough. The harbour in South Bay had maintained fishing boats since the town’s earliest days, but in the seventeenth century shipbuilding commenced an...
Porthole in Time: Sir Alan Ayckbourn Sir Alan Ayckbourn is one of Britain’s most successful and prolific playwrights, as well as a world-renowned director of in-the-round staging. He has received more than 35 awards and honours, includin...
Porthole in Time: Skipping While the first mention of skipping on Shrove Tuesday is from 1903, Scarborough has long treated Shrove Tuesday as a special holiday. In the 19th century, and possibly earlier, shopkeepers closed their businesses at ...
Porthole in Time: Star Carr The archaeological site at Star Carr near Scarborough has been described as the most important Mesolithic site in Britain. The Mesolithic is the middle Stone Age, from around 10,000 to 4,000 years ago. Britain at th...
Porthole in Time: Titanic Scarborough has two important connections to the RMS Titanic – James Paul Moody, the only junior officer to die in the sinking of the Titanic, and Sir Edward Harland, founder of the shipyard which built the Tita...
Porthole in Time: Tunny Fishing For about 20 years, between 1930 and 1950, Scarborough became associated with the sport of ‘tunny’ (tuna) fishing. Local fishermen had earlier spotted large creatures in the water while fishing for h...
Porthole in Time: Vikings The origin of the name ‘Scarborough’ is uncertain, but there are a few theories relating to Anglo-Saxon or Viking origins. The evidence for a Viking origin of the name Scarborough is found in Icelandic lit...
Porthole in Time: WW2 Scarborough endured more than 20 air raids during the Second World War. Very extensive damage was done when a single enemy ‘parachute mine’ was dropped on the Old Town on 10th October 1940, completely destroyi...
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 ...
The battle for Pozieres Ridge - the Somme 1916 R.I.P. - Lance Corporal William Henry Morley - Private William George Jowsey - Captain George Brown Bird Military Cross - Private Albert Hartas Marshall The British High Command had expected Po...
A preachers trip on a Filey Herring yawl The Bridlington Circuit Methodist minister George Shaw wrote a fascinating first hand account of herring fishing on a yawl in his book "Our Filey Fishermen", published in 1867. He recounts how he ...
Preparation for invasion The German bombardment of Scarborough in 1914 left people feeling vulnerable to further attacks and the fear was of an actual landing. Because of this barbed wire and defences were prepared around the coastline. The f...
The press gang and the Royal Navy at Scarborough Press Gang - Richard Sellars says, "I was pressed between Scarbrough piers in the time of the last two engagements betweenthe Dutch and English in the year 1665, and refusing to go on board ...
Primitive Methodism in Filey Primitive Methodism in Scarborough Mr Smith next spoke of labouring with John Oxtoby, known as parying Johnny, at Filey. Early in 1823 Johnny Oxtoby was staying at Bridlington. The quarterly meeting considered the a...
The visit of Princess Mary to Scarborough in 1927 Today a Royal visit can go almost unnoticed. There are so many distractions in terms of media. Yet in the 1920's Princess Mary visited the town and the whole town seemed to turn out. She had co...
The loss of nine brothers in arms In Remembrance of - Private Harry Betts - Private Ross Ward Betts - Private George Betts - Private George William Watson - Private Thomas Edward Watson - Private Ernest Watson - Corporal John Walters - Pri...
Two prominent Scarborough people accompany a trawler in Iceland In September 1927 a couple of prominent Scarborians left the town to accompany an Icelandic trawler - the Lord Weir - in a three week round trip. They were Mr Harry Whitehead (son of ...
Scarborough Pubs and Hotels - archive file list of contents. 1823 Hotels, Inns and Taverns 1829-1890 Inns and Taverns Demolished, Redundant Up to 1954 Scarborough Public Houses Real...
Scarborough pubs archive file list. Contact us for more information (updated 2015). Pubs, Addresses and Information Scarborough Public Houses Hotels An Historical and Descriptive Guide to Scarbo...
Radio 270 - pirate radio station off Scarborough Most people associate pirate radio with Radio Caroline but in truth there were pirate radio stations all arouind the UK. Radio Scotland went on air on New Years Eve. Then Radio 270 intended to start...
Impact Of Railway On Scarborough Harbour: List Of Archive File Contents 19th Century History UFA - Mark Vesey - March 2010 - Impact Of Railway On Scarborough's Town and Fishing Industry Scarborough New Workhouse Big Game Fishing In Brit...
The Raincliffe School Anchor - caught in a trawler net Fishing with the "Linda Louise" off the east coast of Scotland one calm summer's day in 1982, getting towards the end of a 4/5 day fishing trip, we snagged our trawl on what we t...
Ranter Chapel revival in Filey From the book "Filey - a Yorkshire fishing town" by Irene E Allen and Andrew A Todd FILEY IS TAKEN! John Oxtoby was responsible for the great Christian revival which began in 1823. One of the first fa...
Steam Trawler “Ratapiko” SH39 A recent donation by Liz Murphy to the Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre is a painting of the steam trawler Ratapiko by an unknown artist. The vessel has had an interesting and varied history. ...
Ray Edmonds stories of the Old Town in Scarborough 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 Reader family - Scarborough This family history was provided by Brian Reader in Australia who has traced back his family history. The Reader family were a fishing family in Scarborough in the 1800's. Thomas Robinson Reader was Brian Reader...
Scarborough Tunny fishing – Catching the world record Tuna – By Ryan Sheader 2022 LHS - Walter Eves (Pellet), Bill Pashby. Occurred in Scarborough between the 1930s and late 1950s, and attracted mainly the rich and famous an...
The Red Lion in fashionable Redcar - 1700's John Kirton held the Red Lion at Redcar for several years before 1769. That year, he added two dining rooms, one 32 feet by 18 feet by 13 feet, the other somewhat smaller but with a sea view. His hos...
Refugees - German bombardment of Scarborough Article from the Scarborough Pictorial after the German bombardment of Scarborough in 1914 about the plight of refugees who tried to get to Leeds. SCARBOROUGH FUGITIVES IN LEEDS - SEVERAL HUNDRED LEA...
German raid on Scarborough - refugees Article entitled "REFUGEES AT SEAMER - REMARKABLE SCENES IN VILLAGE" from the 18th December, Scarborough Mercury. When Scarborough was bombarded by the German battle cruisers in 1914 the roads were f...
Reg Warrener Reg grew up in Scarborough and went to the Graham Sea Training School. In 1940 he went into the army and was in the First Airborne Division. He was a prisoner of war in Mulberg, Germany, until he was freed by the Russians in 1945. In ...
Religion to a Young Bottom-Ender St Mary's Church played a large role in the bottom of town in my younger days. Although granddad (George Jenkinson Mainprize born 1892 in Filey) "emigrated" to Scarborough from Filey " Little ...
Remember Scarborough - 1914 Some details on the German raid on Scarborough by Sydney Foord from his "Scarborough records" Remember Scarborough In the midst of the casualties, the chaos and the considerable material damage which greet...
Remember Scarborough - recruitment The German bombardment on Scarborough gave a big boost to the recruitment campaign. An article from the Scarborough papers 30th December The Recruiting Department issued from their headquarters on Friday the f...
Scarborough fishing families - Rennard family This page features articles which mention the Rennard families in some way. 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster One of the duties of the lifeboat is to es...
The Research - sunk with Filey men on board in 1925 From the book "Filey - a Yorkshire fishing town" by Irene E Allen and Andrew A Todd The most famous tragedy in Filey's history must be the "Research" disaster of 25th N...
Richard “Tich” Oakes. A tribute by George Westwood - August 2023 So nicknamed because of his extra large physique and larger than life character but he was more commonly refrred to by the fishing fraternity as Oaksie, especial...
RNLI This page features articles on this website that mention the RNLI in some way. 1861 - RNLI and the Scarborough lifeboat. RNLI and the Scarborough lifeboat of 1861 On Saturday 28th September the new lifeboat at Scarb...
Royal Naval Patrol Service Many of Scarborough's mariners would have been recruited into the RNPS during WW1 & WW2. They mainly worked on minesweepers and many lives were lost. There is a great deal of history on the RNPS website:&n...
Robin Hood's Bay This is a list of articles on this website that mention Robin Hood's Bay. Brigantines The Brigantine along the Scarborough and Whitby coast This page features articles on this site which mention Briga...
The fishermen and fisheries of Robin Hood's Bay in 1838 Views of ports and harbours By William Finden, 1838 - old text about Robin Hood's Bay fisheries The above is the name of a fine bay on the Yorkshire coast, between Whitby and Scarb...
An epic Lifeboat rescue in Robin Hoods bay and a terrible tragedy The Scarborough Mercury of 22nd January, 1881 and Gazette of 20th January were thick with news about the terrible storms and cold weather. A hurricane had ripped through London whic...
The Robinson fishing family of Scarborough and Filey This page features articles on this site which mention the Robinson fishing in some way. A to Z listing of Famous Scarborough people SMHC Archive File information held on the followi...
RNLI rescue of the Rohilla, 1914, Saltwick Bay - Whitby Saltwick Bay is just South of Whitby and is virtually overlooked by the Abbey. Its a flat rocked bay and can be prone to heavy surf. In 1914 The hospital ship "The Rohilla" was boun...
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 ...
Room 40 - did Churchill know about Scarborough DID CHURCHILL KNOW? Since the First World War the truth has come out about the Scarborough raid. It has been suggested that Churchill knew that Scarborough was to be bombarded and let this happen b...
Rope, Hemp & Canvas sails Scarborough's dozen shipyards required rope and sail cloth for the hundreds of vessels built here. Rope Walk can be seen on this old map below and is now a row of houses in part of Castle Road. Sa...
Scarboroughs rowing lifeboats THE ROWING LIFEBOATS OF THE RNLI The following history is reprinted from Arthur Godfreys book "The Scarborough Lifeboats" The RLNI began in 1824, but as we have seen Scarborough already had a well esta...
Scarborough fishing families - the Rowley family This page features articles which mention the Rowley fishing family in some way. 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster One of the duties of the lifeboat i...
Rowlocks & Thole Pins The two rowlocks shown are from a small ‘tender’ or boat used to ferry crew to and from larger ships at anchor. The dictionary definition states that: 'Rowlocks are fittings on the gunwale of a bo...
Royal Navy This page features articles from our webasite that mention the Royal Navy. Battleships visit Scarborough 19th c Battleships visit Scarborough - 19th c. When the battleships came to Scarborough the Lords of the Admiralty called at...
Royal Navy Rum Barrel In our collection is a Royal Navy rum barrel. Made of stout oak and one of our heaviest items, it took four strong people to manhandle it into the Maritime Heritage Centre when it was donated in January 2016 by Mr Peter R...
German bombardment - rumours and lies An article from the Scarborough's Mercury 24th December 1914 entitled "SPREADING FALSE REPORTS - SCARBRO MAN CHARGED UNDER DEFENCE OF THE REALM ACT" At the Borough Police Court this (Thur...
Run aground The following story is based upon a real life account written by Forrest Frank based upon a story by Captain John Helm Gibson. These appeared in the Scarborough Daily Post in 1920 as part of the 'Sea Dogs' stories by Forrest Fr...
Runswick Bay superstitions - caves and a landslip To the south-east of Staiths, is the village of Runswick, one of the most romantic spots on the coast, situated on the north-west side of a fine bay, termed Runswick wyke or bay. The houses are per...
Sailing Ship Success In 1900 a sailing ship named the Success visited Scarborough allowing visitors to tour the ship to see the horrors of the convict trade. The Success was built in Natmoo, Tenasserim, Burma, in 1840 as a merchant trading ship...
Sailing ships - a true ghost story When I came on deck at midnight at the change of watch one saturday night, the second mate reported to me that farmer - as we called the country bumpkin - was missing. The man had gone for a drink of water and ha...
Scarborough sailor spiked An extract from Meadleys "Memorials of Scarborough." entitled "Singular occurrence" Page 154 Many years ago ago a strange incident and a wonderful recovery occurred on board a Scarborough vessel, of...
Sailor's Graves on the Scarborough Coastline There is something quite moving about a sailors grave. Many of course die at sea often at places which are aptly named such as Killerby Cliffs or Sailors Grave (Jacksons Bay). But the sea often give...
German raid sailors narrow escape An article from the Scarborough Pictorial 23rd December 1914 entitled "SAILORS NARROW ESCAPE" which describes a sailors return home from a serious accident only to face the German bombardment of Scarboro...
Scarborough sailors rescued in the Baltic - Thomas Hinderwell Thomas Hinderwell was a famous Scarborough historian. He was also a shipowner and personally involved in the establishment of the first lifeboat in Scarborough. His animated account of ...
Saltburn by the sea Old Saltburn was a tiny hamlet, when Henry Pease brought his children to pick up fossils and seashells. They would gaze out from Huntcliff for seals and go for tea and "fat rascals" at the Ship Inn. He loved the pictu...
Salvage at sea The following story is based upon real life accounts which appeared in the Scarborough Daily Post in 1920 as part of the 'Sea Dogs' stories by Forrest Frank. This story was told by Captain Henry Nicholson. We had a favour...
The Saturday night soldiers - Flanders ‘R.I.P.’ - Private George Thomas Thorpe - Private Harry Betts - Private Alexander Harold George Bradley - Private John William Coulson - Private Arthur John Waller With the dawning of a ne...
History of ‘Fahyda’ and the ‘Scarborough Class’ Sloops ‘Fahyda’ was built to a commission by James Dearden, Commodore of Scarborough Yacht Club and his son Derek Dearden. James Dearden was 70 by the time ‘...
'Scarborough' ship - convict transport ship to Australia - 18th Century A Scarborough built vessel, the 430 ton, “Scarborough” completed in 1782 was one of the eleven vessels in the “firs...
Scarborough dog hero It was when I was in the Asphodel that I first took a Newfoundland retriever, 'Hero' to sea with me from Scarborough. 'Hero' went ashore daily at Lauceston, and returned regularly, but on the day we sailed he f...
SCARBOROUGH FAIR Are you going to Scarborough fair? inquired pop singers Simon and Garfunkel in a 200 year old plus song which was used as a theme song for the Anne Bancroft film ‘The Graduate’. The actual origin of the song is...
Scarborough in WW2 75th Anniversary 2020 To commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE Day we have produced a new exhibition and set of webpages focussing on WW2 and Scarborough. Please click on the links below to read more: Much of this new...
Scarborough Memories Project As part of the NLHF Sea Wall Heritage Trail project we interviewed people about their memories of Scarborough: Dave Normandale - Fisherman: Typed Transcript or Audio Recording (8 minutes) Les Shann...
Scarborough People We have several reference files in alphabetical order with information about local people of interest. This website contains a lot on local fishing families and you can search it using the search box. People with notabl...
The story of Scarborough people in World War One The following are first hand quotes and diary extracts of offensive actions in the First World War. They are taken from Paul Allens book 'Neath a foreign sky.' Extract: Robert Leppington ...
Yorkshire Film Archive, Scarborough to Whitby Railway: http://www.yorkshirefilmarchive.com/film/sentimental-journey-whitby-scarborough​ Cloughton Station: http://disused-stations.org.uk/c/cloughton/index.shtml York to Scarborough Li...
Scarborough's 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. Wi...
Scarborough SH registered boats index Here are two pdf files of the George Scales SH boat index. For more information contact us. SH index by boat name SH index by port reg number ...
Scarborough ships in the Baltic Yorkshire was hungry for Baltic goods in the 18th century. Scarborough captains came to know the Baltic well. Flax was imported for the linen industry, that extended from Pickering Vale to Cleveland and for th...
A short history of Scarborough Scarborough has a major fort, an important portand was the first seaside resort. Since the 12th century, the great rock carried a Norman castle, visited by the mediaeval Kings from Henry II to Richard III, who m...
The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Scarborough Though the origins of Parliament date back to the thirteenth century, even five centuries later MPs were elected by a very small percentage of the population – namely men who owned substanti...
Scarborough quick timeline history 10,000 BC - Earliest signs of human habitation in Britain at Staxton, Starr Carr. York University or Starr Carr Project or Archeology Article on Starr Carr 700 - 500BC: Bronze / Iron A...
Scarborough trawlers sunk and wrecked in the modern era Many people assume that shipwrecks are a thing of the past. In the 1800's wrecks were expected especially in the era of the sailing ship as vessels were driven onto the shore by huge stor...
Scarborough Trinity House Seafarers Trust Guild of the Trinity of the Fraternity of the Mariners of England The following brief history is compiled from notes left by the late Captain Sydney Smith MBE who, for over fifty years, was brethren, tr...
Scarborough’s Electricity supply 1893-1948 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 po...
Since Roger the Vintner sold ale and wine in 1175 to the burgesses of the new borough of Scarborough this town has imported wine, and until recent years, brewed ale. The early Normans brought the taste for wine, after their conquest of England, an...
Scarborough's Old Town and its connection to the sea 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...
Scarborough’s Maritime History This article gives an overview of Scarborough’s fascinating maritime history dating back as far as the Romans and Vikings. The story is so rich that several volumes would be needed to ...
There are over a dozen other Scarboroughs in the world named after us. See these articles for more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough​ ...
Schermuly Rocket Line Thrower The Schermuly Line Thrower was invented by William Schermuly and his son, Capt. Conrad D. Schermuly DCM. William Schermuly was born in 1857. He went to sea on HMS Warspite and other ships. After leaving a ma...
School children see their relatives drowned This story appeared in a series of articles by Forrest Frank in 1920 in the Scarborough Daily Post - This story came from Captain John Wilson In southerly winds what was known as the Mosquito Fleet - ...
Scrimshaw The Scarborough Maritime Heritage centre has some examples of Scrimshaw on display which were donated by Andrea Smith. Scrimshaw is the name given to scrollwork, engravings, and carvings done in bone or ivory. Typically it ref...
Sea bathing was pioneered at Scarborough in the late 17th century. Scarborough invented wild cold water swimming The healthy plunger was warned, "you could feel a considerable shock or chill. A sobbing succeeds, the skin is contracted and ...
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...
Sea mine disasters Grimsby fishermen perfomed a vital and costly role in both world wars clearing Britain's coasts and shipping lanes of enemy mines. Grimsby lost 419 trawlers in total. Admiral Lord Charles Beresford came up with the swee...
German bombardment - sea mines An article entitled "HONOURS WON OFF SCARBOROUGH - MINE SWEEPERS' COURAGE RECOGNISED - DSC FOR LIEUT. BOOTHBY - TWO VESSELS MINED UNDER HIM" in the Scarborough Pictorial 2nd February, 1915 After the ...
Sea of Azov A story by John Helm Gibson from Scarborough Sea Dogs by G Forest Frank. ...Crossing to the Tyne I gave the Euterpe up to her old Captain, and was appointed to the command of the Calliope, a new ship, of lighter draught than the Eu...
History of the Scarborough Sea Rangers of S R S Scarborough Written by Dorothy Morrison, ex Sea Ranger of SRS Scarborough & Sea Ranger Lieutentant 1950s / 60s. (2013). This is by no means a complete history but rather bits and pieces of tim...
Sea Shanty - 1880 Storm YouTube song here Me thinks I see a host of craft spreading their sails to lea As down the Humber they do glide all bound for the northern sea Me thinks I see on each small craft a crew with hearts so brave Goin...
Sea Urchin Stall on the West Pier at Scarborough In my younger years the harbour was our playground and there were many ways to earn a few bob in our play. With friends we use to get permission to climb on the boats in the harbour after the boa...
Scarborough seafaring casualties in World War One R.I.P. - Skipper Robert Heritage - Second Hand John Chamberlain Barker - Third Hand Arthur Houghton Wright - Chief Engineer Frederick Nathan Mills - Second Engineer James Robert Hunter - Deck...
Seamen's Poetry The following list is an anthology of seamen's poetry. Seamen's Poetry > List of Current Documents: 1. A Scarborough Row in Verse 2. A Tribute to One of Our Gallant Defenders by Vaughan, Herbert 3. A Wint...
Seamen's Songs and Shanties Sea Shanties A sea shanty, chantey, or chanty is a type of work song that was once commonly sung to accompany labour on board large merchant sailing vessels. The term shanty most accurately refers to a specific s...
Scarborough : A seaside resort in the 1820s A book seller called John Cole moved to Scarborough in 1821. His diary recorded some of the delights, awaiting both the resident and the genteel visitor, in those years before the railways brought the cr...
Seaside Subjects Scarborough is Britain’s first seaside resort and there are many special features that make up the traditional seaside holiday experience. Author, Kathyrn Ferry, has written a book called ‘Seaside 100&rs...
Seaweed Farming Here on the Yorkshire Coast, SeaGrown is developing an exciting new marine industry for the UK. With support from the Coastal Communities Fund we are establishing a seaweed farm in the clean, cold, open waters of the North Sea. ...
The Second Battalion of the Coldstream Guards - 1914 - By Paul Allen The Second Battalion of the Coldstream Guards had officially begun mobilising for war at midnight of the fourth and fifth of August 1914, however due to the deteriorating situati...
Self-righting lifeboat design by Sir George Cayley Drawing and design of a self-righting lifeboat by Sir George Cayley. Date: c.1836 Sir George Cayley (27 December 1773 to 15 December 1857) was an English engineer, invent...
September 1916 - Scarborough trawler fleet decimated: On 24-25th September 1916, 19 trawlers were sunk by a U-Boat in one go. Amongst them were eleven Scarborough boats, five from Grimsby, and one each from Hull, Hartlepool and Whitby. The Scar...
John Setterington's 1753 image One of the best images of old Scarborough is John Setterington's sketch from 1753. It shows all the important buildings in Scarborough, the ship yards, the first bathing machines, the harbour walls and e...
Scarborough fishing families - the Sheader families This page features articles on this site which mention the Sheader fishing families in some way. 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster One of the...
Sheader Family You may recall our visit to the Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre a few weeks ago to enquire about the whereabouts of a portrait of Spouse Godfrey Sheader which we believe used to hang in the old Lifeboat Station before it w...
Scarborough & the Yorkshire Coast have a healthy vibrant shell fishing industry. Local fishermen still go out in small boats and lay crab & lobster pots along the coast. Below are a few links to shell fishing history in the UK. ...
Technique to build a ship The stories below appeared in a series of articles by Forrest Frank in 1920 in the Scarborough Daily Post. This article concerns stories told by Captain Wyrill It used to be said of our North-East Coast shipbuilders th...
Ship design eras Below is a brief overview of the changing shapes of ship designs from the past 2000 years. ...
There were many types of boats and ships built in Scarborough and thanks to Trinity House we have a comprehensive list of them from the early 1700s up until 1880. Below is a sketch outlining the different types, brigantine, snow etc. &nb...
Scarborough ship owners The following story is based upon a real life account written by Forrest Frank based upon a story by Captain John Wilson. These appeared in the Scarborough Daily Post in 1920 as part of the 'Sea Dogs' stories by For...
An article on Ship's Biscuits from the Albert Strange Association Newsletter 2019 ...
Scarborough Shipbuilders Scarborough was a busy shipbuilding port. Nearly 42,000 tons of ships were made by Tindall's yard and 30,000 by other yards between 1742 and 1879. Pretty amazing really. Where did all that wood came from? The best year...
Shipbuilding This page features articles on this website that mention shipbuilding in some way. Allen and Truman Scarborough fishing families The Allen and Truman Scarborough fishing families The writer of this history d...
Shipbuilding in Scarborough: wooden barques & schooners The following article was written by Douglas J Boyle and was first printed in the Scarborough Evening News on January 1st 1934. It was added to the Maritime archives by Van...
A shipload of single girls The following story is based upon real life accounts which appeared in the Scarborough Daily Post in 1920 as part of the 'Sea Dogs' stories by Forrest Frank. This story was told by Captain John Helm Gibson. Wh...
UK Shipping forecast zones, courtesy of BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast_and_sea/shipping_forecast ...
Shipping Ironstone down the coast A forgotten industry along the Yorkshire coast was the graving of ironstone from cliff fall, and perhaps in places from the cliff face. The rock wasloaded on ships for delivery to the iron works of county Durham i...
Scarborough ships in the Yorkshire coastal trade of 1638-9 The port of Scarborough was born as a fishing community and remains one yet. That side of its life saw many ups and down over time. The rich story of line, trawl and drift fishing fro...
Nothing heard of ships lost at sea This is based upon the words of Mr W Sharrah who wrote a pamphlet entitled "Tales from the sea" Mr W Sharrah, compiled a book of tales from the sea. He had countless stories of sad tales. He read num...
Shipwrecked mariners saved by a dream The following story was told by Sholto Percy in The Percy anecdotes. It refers to shipwrecked mariners saved through a dream. It has no connection with Scarborough but is still extremely interesting In June...
Shipwrecks - how to survive This article is based upon some quotes from an old Yorkshire historian Canon Cooper on Shipwrecks. The most terrible wreck of our times was that of the Titanic, the fight for places in Lifeboats so desperate a ships ...
We hold files listing and describing some of the many small shops that existed in Scarborough in times past. Below is a sample list of what we hold. Contact us for more information. (updated 2012). The Market in the History of Scarborough Marke...
Shot at dawn ‘Shot at Dawn’ - The life and death of Private James Crampton My interest in the controversial issues arising from the execution of British soldiers during the Great War of 1914-18 had initially been kindled during the ...
Fred Walkington MBE, of Bridlington, has gathered some amazing photographs of the Siddall boatbuilders. If you wish to know more please contact us. Here is a short family tree. Thomas Siddall Tavern and Public house keeper, 18 King Street...
Sinking of HMS Esk The following was written by Herbert Vaughan, and provides a first hand account of the sinking of HMS Esk. NO RETURN TICKET - At war with Germany, September, 1939. A diary written by Herbert Vaughn (Telman (Communications ...
Sinking the Tirpitz This article was written by Ian Baird whose family loved Scarborough and he evenutally moved to the borough in the 1970s. On 12th November 1944, my father, Flt Sgt Robert Baird was safely relaxing back at base after one of t...
Scarborough's Sir Edward Harland - Belfast Shipbuilder Sir Edward Harland was buried in 1895 in Belfast. He set up the world famous Harland and Wolff shipbuilding yards in the North of Ireland. His connection with Scarborough is less well know...
The Sitwell family have strong links to Scarborough. Their summer home was at Woodend and Edith Sitwell, poet, was influenced by the town and sea. Read more here: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.sitwellsociety.com/doc...
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)...
Slavery & Scarborough Hello, my name is Shaheen Alikhan. I am working on a book, built from my thesis at the University of Virginia, on the architecture of purpose-built slaving vessels. Some information I came across led me to your websi...
Scarborough fishing families - the Smalley family This page features articles on this site that may mention the Smalley fishing family in some way. T Allen and Truman Scarborough fishing families The Allen and Truman Scarboro...
The Yorkshire smuggler - the smuggling of contraband This article was first published by the Scarborough Evening News in 1968. Written by our own John Rushton it is now reprinted here. Smuggling was not new in the eighteenth century - it existe...
Smuggling of contraband along the Scarborough coast Few records exist of the smuggling which happened on the North East coast. It was an activity which was carried on in secret and supported often by Customs Officers in secret. The memories of the...
Smuggling This page features articles on this website that mention smuggling in some way. 32 Sandside My grandfather's house at 32 Sandside The following story was surrounded with great mystery. It was handwritt...
Soldier's letter home An article from the Scarborough Pictorial 23rd December 1914 entitled "SYMPATHY FOR HCM: LOCAL LAD'S MESSAGE FROM THE FRONT - OTHER KINDLY EXPRESSIONS". This describes the messages of support from ...
German bombardment - soldiers story An article from the Scarborough Pictorial 23rd December 1914, entitled "A SOLDIER'S STORY. Visit to parents disturbed. Graphic account of bombardment". A story, remarkable for its clearness and...
The bloody battle of the Somme 1916 R.I.P. - Private John William Harwood - Private William Anderson - Private Frederick Ireland - Private Henry Ireland - Private Henry Newby - Private Ernest William Newby - Bandsman Allan Parkinson - Priv...
Introduction. In the spring of 1993 I undertook a cycle journey to the city of Santiago de Compostela in North Western Spain. After landing at Zeebrugge in Belgium I cycled the few miles to the seaside town of Nieuport where I turned my wheels to ...
Somme July 1916 R.I.P. - Private Robert William Deighton - Private Robert Henry Morris - Private Charles Francis Morris - Private George Robert Costello - Private Albert Costello - Private Edward Wilkinson Bean - Lance Corporal William Henr...
The mud in the battle of the Somme 1916 R.I.P. - Acting Bombardier George Anderson - Lance Corporal Harry Whittaker Anderson - Private Edward Purnell - Rifleman Richard Johnson Purnell - Private Ernest William Dove - Private Christopher Matt...
South Bay Pool A great website with photos and information about Scarborough's South Bay Pool can be seen here. ...
U-BOAT RAID ON SCARBOROUGH - 4TH SEPTEMBER 1917 ‘SHELLED IN THE SURF’ By Special correspondent of the London Daily Mail: The day had been beautifully fine and there were many merry picnic parties on the coast and moors....
Shipwreck in the South Bay In Scarborough's South Bay a wreck of an old wooden boat is exposed when the sand is washed away by strong tides. George Westwood presents some compelling ideas as to its origin: Having done a great deal of...
Spa History 1620. Mrs. Farrow discovered that the water had medical properties. 1698. First cisterns for water built by the Corporation. 1700. First Spaw House built by Dickie Dickinson, the first Govenor. 1725. The staith of the Spaw...
SPECIAL WIRELESS SECTIONS (1939-1945) and GCHQ 'Y' Station. My father was born 3rdAugust 1918 to Austin and Laura Barton nee Marshall and sadly passed away 16thSeptember 2014 aged 96 years..He had a British Legion escort at his funeral who...
SS Aguila & 21 Wrens 'Lest we forget' In memory of 12 Scarborough based WRNS killed at sea in 1941. Frank Cook, from Saltburn, donated to us a hand drawn picture of the SS Aguila that was sunk by torpedo in August 1941. The ...
SS Betty Hindley The SS Betty Hindley registered to Messrs Stephenson, Clarke & Collingwood, Newcastle Upon Tyne, was a collier constantly feeding the homes and power stations of london with coal. She became the last vessel to b...
St Quentin 1917 The Great War R.I.P. - Private James Ernest Lancaster - Private Alf Temple Appleby At the extreme right, or south, of the British line had been seven divisions of infantry belonging to General Sir Henry Rawlinson’s Fourt...
Stained glass window with town seal In 2015 the SMHC acquired a stained glass window from the old Conservative Club on Huntriss Row that was being converted into a Premier Inn. The window was made in 1888 and has survived two world wars. It has a ...
Stanley Tipper Stanley Tipper was born on the 4th June 1911. The family started at 133 Castle Road but his father succumbed to gas in WW1 and disappeared shortly after returning home. They moved to 7 Granville Road. Stanley attended the Graha...
Steam Trawler 'Ratapiko' SH39 A recent donation to the Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre by Liz Murphy is a painting of the steam trawler Ratapiko by an unknown artist. The vessel has had an interesting and varied history. S...
Scarborough Steam Trawler Owners This list of Steam trawlers is taken from the Cyril Prescott volumes in Scarborough Librarys History room. Its not a complete list. - Pre 1914 * - 1918-1940 # - 1945-1963 % G Alderson Smith (*) - Dalhousie ...
Stories from Flamborough Head and Filey Some extracts from the Yorkshire Annals linked to Filey and Flamborough 1861:- July 19th. The town of Scarborough was thrown into a state of gloom and sorrow, in consequence of the upsetting of,a boat ret...
Stories of human interest from the sea port of Scarborough Some stories of human interest from Bakers history of Scarborough • 1694 - John Collings was executed at Tyburn, York for stealing lead and copper from St Marys Church, Scarboroug...
Strange customs amongst the Scarborough shipbuilders The following was found in Bakers history of Scarborough : Whilst a ship was being caulked(made watertight) any passing woman had to be kissed : The custom didn't last for long! Caulking...
Strange Customs Of Scarborough Shipbuilders The following was found in Bakers history of Scarborough: Whilst a ship was being caulked (made watertight) any passing woman had to be kissed: The custom didn't last for long! Caulking kiss - fo...
Scarborough's sub aqua club is one of the oldest in Britain. They have dived many wrecks on the Yorkshire Coast and have a huge collection of bells and artefacts. In 2015 they put on a display in the Maritime Heritage Centre about UB2...
A submarine attack on Scarborough's South Bay On September 4th 1917 a submarine surfaced in Cayton Bay. It was had been a glorious summers day. The sea was flat and on Scarboroughs South Bay beach the visitors were enjoying the early evening s...
World War One - France 1917 RIP - Second Lieutenant John Francis Newlove - Major Valentine Fowler - Corporal John Henry Devlin - Lance Corporal Isaac Yaxley - Private William Cockerill - Private Alfred Hansom - Private Robert Moore - Lieut...
Scarborough surfers and surfing At one time the economy of Scarborough was very much based upon the sea - fishing boats sold their catches, shipbuilders busy in shipyards, and merchant seamen going from port to port. Nowadays Scarborough relies on...
Sustainable Fishing - Quotas and a Way of Life Fish quotas have always been controversial. Fishermen up and down the country are reporting increases in cod in the North Sea and feel that this should filter through to higher quota levels. However, ...
Suzanne Pollard and her Filey Fishing relatives This article is based on the research of Suzanne Pollard into her Great Great Grandfather and his parents. Her family tree links in with the Robinsons, The Bayes, The Allens, The Jenkinsons and the C...
Scarborough fishing families - the Swift family This page features articles on this site that may mention the Swift fishing family in some way. Cobles along the Scarborough and Filey coast Cobles on the Yorkshire Coast This p...
Tank warfare in World War One The following are first hand quotes from Paul Allens book 'Neath a foreign sky.' They all refer to tanks and tank warfare. Its an excellent historical record of how people thought and felt during the Great War...
German raid on Scarborough - targets This following letter was sent by Harry W Smith, the Borough engineer at Scarborough to Dr Hay, city of Aberdeen Emergency committee, dated January 8th 1915. It is an excellent summary of the attack on Scarboro...
A temperance ship The following story is based upon a real life account written by Forrest Frank based upon a story by Captain Henry Nicholson. These appeared in the Scarborough Daily Post in 1920 as part of the 'Sea Dogs' stories by Forre...
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 ...
Theakston's Guide to the Scarborough Fisheries 1866 THE FISHERIES. "To weary toil while others sleep, The sturdy fisher wends his way, To reap the harvest of the deep, He labours on till break of day." Varieties of Fish - Pa...
The Battle for Thiepval Ridge - Somme in Wolrd War One R.I.P. - Private George Hill - Corporal Charles Hill High above the Ancre River on a ridge bearing the same name stands a now insignificant Somme village which, if it was not for the abun...
Thomas Hinderwell - History of Scarborough's Fisheries This article is taken word for word from Thomas Hinderwell's "History of Scarborough" printed 200 years ago. FISHERIES The Fisheries would be a profitable branch of tra...
Thor the walrus Thor the walrus visited Scarborough on new year's eve 2022. It caused disruption to the fireworks and he became a large tourist attraction for a few days. After he had rested he moved north and has been spotted in several ...
Tindall ship attacked by pirates The story below comes from "THE TINDALLS OF SCARBOROUGH" page 60. It was the pirates who eventually caused the expulsion of William and Robert from he Society of Friends. In 1828 the Tindall barque, ...
Tindall shipbuilding This page was compiled from research done by James Buckley, when he was warden of the Trinity House Trust and chariman of the Governors of Graham Sea Training School. It is a ful list of Tindall ships built between 1771 and 18...
Tindalls the shipbuilders by John Rushton. The Tindall family were major contributors to the maritime history of Scarborough. A University student could usefully produce a thesis on the family. We can only offer a preliminary glance. There is a st...
Tip Heritages epic swim only to die of exposure at Speeton In June, 1915 the Condor blew up. It was sunk by a U-Boat off Cloughton. All the crew were lost. These were the bare facts. Yet what is easily forgotten is an epic attempt by the skipper T...
Tom Rowley Snr 1947 - 2023 Tom Rowley Snr came from a family of fishermen spanning back several generations. Tom helped the Maritime Centre right from our early days being very supportive and informing the ‘landlubbers’ of the tea...
Tommy Rowley - stories about loss of life at sea Life at sea is often dangerous and the most difficult thing is to watch as fishermen are in trouble and yet you can do nothing. Tommy Rowley recalls "I remember the loss of the Admiral Von T...
Tony East on superstitions Fisherman, Tony East, talks about fishing superstitions. He worked on trawlers from Scarborough and Hull The following text is a transcript of this video Thinking back to me mother, she'd looked after me fa...
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...
Scarborough raid 1914 - tragic loss of bride Story from 30th December, 1914. Entitled "ROBBED OF HIS BRIDE." A tragic story about the German bombardment of Scarborough in 1914 ROBBED OF HIS BRIDE - SCARBOROUGH SOLDIER'S SAD HOME C...
Training for the front - World War One The following are first hand quotes and diary extracts of the First World War as soldiers were trained and prepared for war. They are taken from Paul Allens book 'Neath a foreign sky.' Extract: A s...
Trams in Scarborough Scarborough had an excellent network of trams servicing the town from 1904 to the 1931.The Edumundson Electricity Company put down 5 miles of line by 1904. On the first two days fifteen 'cars' carried 22...
Travelling from Scarborough around the world by longitude & latitude Scarborough’s place in the world: +0.4 degrees West of Greenwich, 54.3 degrees North Travelling East - Earth speed = 600 miles per hour North Sea to St Peter, Ger...
A Scarborough Trawler crew cast adrift after a U-Boat attack Fishermen love to tell stories, its an exciting life at sea - always eventful. As they get older they will sit by the fireside or at the bar and endlessly talk of both the good and the b...
Two Scarborough trawler skippers receive bad news In 1934, wireless receivers were a relatively new phenonoma. They had all sorts of important uses. For centuries gone past the trawlermen were cut off from their families. In bad weather the wiv...
Trawlers and the fishing industry This page features articles on this website which mention trawlers. Gallery - Trawlers Trawlers Gallery The Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre has a collection of over 50,000 photographs of boats &...
Scarborough Fishing Trawlers in Wartime Paper given on 2 Feb 2016 to the Friends in Council Society Cheltenham (formed 1862). By Michael Herman I was brought up in Scarborough, with its long history as a North Sea fishing port, and I s...
Three Scarborough trawlers sunk by mines in 1920 Most trawlers were sunk by U-Boats in World War I after their crews were allowed to leave. Some fishermen were on board several sunken trawlers during the war. Very few died. Fishermen would rather ...
Trawling From the book North Sea fishers and Fighters - by Walter Wood 1911 Seasons of the year Sailing cod smacks worked on three different grounds according to the season of the year. These seasons and places were: 1. October to Christm...
Trawling and overfishing - Filey fishing From the book "Filey - a Yorkshire fishing town" by Irene E Allen and Andrew A Todd THE FISHING HAS BEEN SPOILED BY THE TRAWLING Most modern fishing is based on the trawling principle, which...
Trawling for herring The steam trawler threatens to make another inroad on the fishing industry. It has practically extinguished the sail boat, by means of which the fishing off the coasts was, till comparatively recent times, extensively and excl...
Trench raiding in World War One - 1916 R.I.P. - Private Harry McBean - Lance Corporal John Robert McBean - Sergeant Arthur Paterson - Lance Corporal Arthur Clarke - Private Walter Clarke - Lieutenant Edward Reginald Spofforth - Private Leon...
Trench warfare in World War One The following are first hand quotes from soldiers who had to endure trench warfare in World War One. They are taken from Paul Allens book 'Neath a foreign sky.' These quotations all help to bring to life the...
Trinity Seamen's Hospital Historians have offered conflicting views over the reach and efficiency of the Seamen's Sixpence programme. Established in 1696, it was intended to assist disabled mariners, the widows of seamen who lost their liv...
Scarborough fishing families - the Trueman family This page features articles on this site which mention the Truman fishing family in some way. 1874 - great storm along the coasts of England A great storm in 1874 along the coasts...
Tudor mariners - the Bedomes in King Henry VIII's port of Scarborough 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 "Bartho...
Tunny Fishing Gallery http://www.yorkshirefilmarchive.com/film/tunny-action Tunny fishing gallery ...
Tunny fishing in Scarborough This page features articles on this site which mention Tunny fishing. The most relevant articles are placed at the top of the list. Those at the bottom may just mention tunny once. • Theakston's guide...
Tunny fishing in Scarborough in the 1930's In the early 1930's someone discovered that huge Tunny fish lived in the North Sea. They were not easy to capture and so big game anglers turned this into a sport. This was a useful sideline for t...
Turbinia - Steam turbine ship Scarborough built many wooden sailing ships during the 17th and 18th centuries but when the new steam powered ships started to arrive we did not have the facilites to make them. The fastest of these powered...
The U-Boat campaign in the First World War When World War One broke out the U-boat was not really well known. The German Imperial Navy had been involved in a naval arms race with the Royal Navy. The race was expensive. Dreadnoughts cost a phenomen...
Log of the German U-Boat which sank eleven Scarborough trawlers in 1916 The following is taken from the log of the German U-Boat which sank 11 Scarborough Trawlers in 1916. He was Ritter Karl Siegfried Von Georg. This log begins just after the U-B...
U-boat U57 - Naval records of movements as she sank 29 trawlers in three days The following is copied from Naval records which follow the U-57 as it sank eleven Scarborough trawlers and 29 in between 23rd and 25th September, 1916. From reports ...
Underwater Archaeology Course – A review by Matt Newsome In June 2022, Matt undertook a Maritime Archaeology Course run by the Nautical Archaeology Society. This involved how to record and survey underwater archaeological sites. Matt tel...
German bombardment of Scarborough - unexploded bombs This page features and interesting letter from Herbert King, an explosives expert, to Borough Engineer, Harry W Smith. The town received advice on unexploded bombs. But it also shows how the bom...
Vandvoorde Ridge - Early battles of the Great War - By Paul Allen In the early days of the war, long before the people of Scarborough had seen in their local newspapers the lengthy casualty lists of 1916 onwards it had been usual for the ‘Sc...
Vessels sunk by German sea mines from 1914 The Forgotten Casualties of the Bombardment of Scarborough in 1914 By David Pendleton The ships and men lost to sea mines off Scarborough 1914-15 The bombardment of Scarborough by German battle c...
VICTORIAN ERA BUILDINGS New Spa 1880 Railway Station 1845 Market Hall 1853 Oddfellows Hall / Mechanics Institute / Town Library 1840 Workhouse / St Mary's Hospital 1859 Woodall & Co Bank / Barclays 1864 Central Post Offic...
Childhood deaths in Victorian Scarborough 57% of children born in the Victorian era died by age 5 despite the wealth and prosperity of the country there were huge amounts of poverty and poor health. Here is a small sample of children&rs...
SCARBOROUGH IN THE VICTORIAN ERA 2021 marks the 120thanniversary of the death of Queen Victoria in 1901. During her reign Britain became the most powerful trading nation in the world, leading to a social and economic revolution whose ef...
Victorian fishing industry, Smacks and Trawls Devon fishermen used beam-trawl methods first and the idea came to Scarborough and Hull in the 1830s. A large wooden beam kept the mouth of the net open. From 1840 to 1860 trawling spread swiftly along...
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Viola Dias Trawler The over 100 year old steam trawler 'Viola' is the last of a kind that once filled harbours along the Yorkshire Coast. She now lies rusting in South Georgia. She steamed thousands of miles and survived world wars. A grou...
A voyage from Australia "A sea voyage" from the magazine of Scarborough High School for boys 1923-29. Page 127 On 23rd December, 1926, I embarked at Adelaide on the "Moreton Bay" for England. We had not been out many hours b...
A voyage of a lifetime Introduction I had the intention of writing about my first voyage in a vessel belonging to the British Merchant Navy for many years. However, what with one thing and another I have never got around to it. Nevertheless, the...
Scarborough fishing families - the Walker family This page features articles on this site that mention the Walker fishing family in some way. 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster 1954 Scarborough Lifeboat disaster One of the duties of t...
Walker’s Excelsior IV Log The Excelsior Log on display at the Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre is a nautical instrument for measuring a vessel's speed and distance travelled. When navigating a ship it is essential to be able to e...
HMS Walrus See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Walrus_(D24) The first HMS Walrus (D24) was a W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the final months o...
The war at sea - Scarborough The following are first hand quotes and diary extracts of the war at sea during the Great war. They are taken from Paul Allens book 'Neath a foreign sky.' Extract: Battle of Jutland However, before the De...
Warwick Tower A great landmark that can help to date some old Scarborough photos. The original inventor of a revolving tower was a Mr JS Lake from Pleasantville, USA, who never registered the patent for it and it was taken up by two Americans ...
Watching for ships by the harbour walls in Scarborough The fishing industry was always dangerous. The sailing ships were always vulnerable to gales and bad weather which could come out of nowhere. These huge seas and treacherous storms could endan...
NORTHSTEAD MANOR GARDENS WATER CHUTE Harry Smith, the Borough Engineer, designed and developed the area we now know as Northstead Manor Gardens in three stages. The first stage opening in 1929 was the area at the top of the hill where 10 tenni...
Barry Watson's grandfather, Henry Watson [The Petty Officer seated]. He was involved with mine sweeping during World War One when many trawlers were seconded for this task. On his arm you can see the RNR badge with a T for trawlers. Bottom...
Weather in the Channel From The Principal Winds & Currents of the Globe By Captain R. Jackson, R.N. Published in 1904 English Channel The prevailing winds are westerly, and gales from that direction are felt in all seasons, but...
Scarborough Girls High School which was at the bottom of Westbourne Grove. Read more at: https://www.thescarboroughnews.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/temporary-home-for-girls-1-5572779 Scarborough Girls High School which was at the bottom of Westbo...
Whaling As far as we know, Scarborough was never involved in the whaling industry, unlike Whitby. Whales are the largest animals on earth and play an important role in the marine environment. Warm-blooded and air breathing mammals, like us, whales...
What does the sea do for you? Wealth, Jobs, Oxygen, Food, Sport, Health, Art, Leisure Provides oxygen. Phytoplankton, tiny plant-like organisms that live in the ocean, produce about half of the oxygen we breathe. Regulates our climate. The...
What mariners brought back from overseas The Whitby Museum at Pannet Park is a delight, notonly for its geological treasures, curious creaturesfound in the alum shales, and the ship models kept from its days as a great ship building and tradingpor...
What the sea means to me Local fishermen, mariners & residents were asked what the sea means to them. Here are some of their answers:- “The sea feeds us, it entertains us and it excites us. It takes us to new countries to me...
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 the 1950s to the present...
What was on board a ship in the North Sea in 1520 The Scots ship "Dumbarton", 50 tons, Collyn Porterfeld , master, in October 1520 had these goods belonging to Deryk Molener ,an Antwerp merchant, from a vessel lost off Brittany - Guns...
Whisper Cammish One of the few survivors of the men who used to man the big sweeps when Scarborough had an oar-propelled lifeboat is Harry 'Whisper' Cammish, aged eighty-one, Longwestgate. He got his nickname because he had a voice truly &...
Whitby - Storr and Leadley familys In 1861 the Whitby Lifeboat sank and took the lives of twelve men including Matthew Leadley, Robert Leadley,John Storr (Coxswain) and William Storr. This was a famous date in Whitbys RNLI history. Another rescue ...
German bombardment of Whitby in 1914 An article entitled "THE ATTACK ON WHITBY - COASTGUARDS HEAD BLOWN OFF - LARGE GAPS IN ABBEY WALLS. EXODUS TO THE COUNTRY" in the 18th December 1914 edition of the Scarborough Mercury. It describes th...
Whitby Collier - Sea Adventure In 2023, Mike Salter published a new book about the Whitby Collier - Sea Adventure. It was built in 1724 and survived until 1810. Below is the cover and introduction. The book was published by Biddles Books Ltd...
The Journal of Captain Cook - extracts from Tahiti (1775) Captain Cook had links with Staithes and Whitby. His famous voyages were recorded in his own journal. This article includes some extracts from his second visit to the Island of Tahiti. &...
A shipwreck near Whitby - epic account printed by Hinderwell Deliverance from Shipwreck,near Whitby. Copy of a letter from Captain Cannon of Dunbar, respecting his remarkable deliverance from Shipwreck near Whitby. This was printed in Thomas Hinde...
The Whitby whale fishing industry The Tatler 1830 THE NORTHERN WHALE FISHERY. "The crew of Mr Scoresby, the elder, in 1807, had struck a whale, which soon reappeared, but in a state of such violent agitation that no one durst approach it. ...
Whitby will - William Vescy - 1407 William Vescy had lived at Whitby. He was a merchant and his forebears had tenanted the big house at Sleights. Even earlier, his ancestors may well have been the barons Vescy who were lords of Malton, Brompton an...
Whitby's Early History - a fishing town Is indebted for it's origin to an abbey founded there in the year 650. The Saxon name of the place was Streanshalt, (Sinus Pharij or 'the Bay of the Watch-Tower.' It was afterword called Pres...
The Whitehead family - Scarborough This email was sent to us by Terrence Morgan, the Great Grandson of Thomas Whitehead. Dear Sir, I am sending information which maybe of interest to you concerning my great grandfathers family . Thomas...
Scarborough once had the 3rd largest telescope in Britain The 15.5 inch f15 Cook refractor telescope was in an observatory built in 1885 on Londesborough Road in Scarborough. James Wigglesworth (1825-1889), a businessman and amateur...
Wilfred Owen, famous WW1 poet, wrote in Scarborough. Read more here: http://www.scarboroughcivicsociety.org.uk/Wilfred-Owen.php http://www.wilfredowen.org.uk/virtual-tour/scarborough http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/co...
William Cammish - log book of the Aurora - a Scarborough merchant ship There exists in Scarborough public Library a ships log. This was written by William Cammish who was the master of the Brig, Aurora. Most of the entries concern the day to day n...
William Walter Dowding In December 2022, Tom Steanson, from the Newcastle area, pictured below, chose the SMHC for the loan of a 1930s tunny fishing rod. The rod has the initials WWD and when we checked the Scarborough Tunny Club records...
Wind Farm Work This article was written by Matt Newsome from Scarborough, a young person working as a deckhand on offshore wind farm crew transfer vessels, with Mainprize Offshore Ltd, since 2015. My official job description is a...
The Wreck Of The Winwick By James W. E. Ashwell Just over one hundred and seventy-five years ago, Lyall Bay in New Zealand was the scene of one of the earliest shipwrecks in the Wellington region when, on December the 12th,1841, the barque Win...
Winston Churchill - German raid "GERMANS AND MR CHURCHILL - THE DEFENCES OF DUNDEE" in the Scarborough Mercury 24th December. Winston Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, was along with the Royal Navy more unpopular than the German...
Witches and black cats in the Old Town in Scarborough - superstitions The following are quotes from old fishermen taken during our intergenerational interviews. Young children met the retired fishermen and seamen and learnt first hand how they liv...
Women & children in local history Here is a list of some of the articles on this website which mention women and children. 32 Sandside My grandfather's house at 32 Sandside The following story was surrounded with great mystery....
WOMEN AT SEA In past times it was thought unlucky for women to go to sea. This is because they might distract the crew who were away from their wives and women onshore. The crew not keeping watch on the sea might also anger Neptune, God ...
Womens Work In The Filey Fishing Industry From the book "Filey - A Yorkshire Fishing Town" by Irene E Allen and Andrew A Todd Women and daughters seemed to have have helped carry gear down to the boats. Kendall writing in 1870 su...
There are some interesting articles about Scarborough's workhouse on this website and others, see links:- http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Scarborough/ http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Scarborough/Scarborough1881.shtml​ ...
World war one outbreak. The war effort in Scarborough In 1914 war broke out in Europe and all the major powers entered the struggle with enthusiasm. The local newspapers supported the cause vigorously. Those who volunteered were listed and prai...
Wreck of the Mary Stoddart - Dundalk Particulars of the loss of the barque Mary Stoddart, of this port. Saturday April 17th Scarborough Mercury. Intelligence has been received of the shipwreck of the Mary Stoddart, of this port, Captain Aver...
12 Scarborough Wrens sunk by U-boat In August 1941, twelve Scarborough based Wrens were killed while at sea on route to Gibraltar. The women were:- - Phyllis Bacon - Madge Barnes (who volunteered on her 18th birthday) - Cecilly Ben...
‘The Wunderwerk’ and Stuff Redoubt R.I.P - Lance Corporal Edward Petch - Private Walter Newman - Sergeant Robert Brailsford Craven - Sergeant Thomas Clark - Private William Trotter - Lance Corporal Charles Stephens - Private Tho...
First World War & Scarborough This page gives a list of some WW1 articles on this website but for the most recent articles search for World War One using the search box. 100th anniversary event - images 2014 Bombardm...
WW1 Centenary 2018 For the centenary of the end of WW1 our volunteers have been gathering information about the names of people listed on the Oliver's Mount war memorial. We have digitised this and produced the following charts showing the you...
surname forename initials age date_of_death rank regiment unitshipsquadron cemeterymemorial gravereference additionalinformation APPLEBY JOHN ROWLEY J R 19 05/04/1918 ...
surname forename initials age date_of_death rank regiment unitshipsquadron servicenumberExport cemeterymemorial gravereference additionalinformation ANDERSON GEORGE WILLIAM G...
Scarborough 40 Club Debating Society during WW2 The Scarborough 40 Club Debating Society was established in 1899 and carried on meeting throughout WW1 and WW2 with a diverse range of topics for debate, including the war and the future post wa...
WW2 Air Raids There were over 20 air raids on Scarborough, mostly in 1940 and 1941. Below are four examples. Burniston The first attack on the Scarborough area took place on June 26 1940 when the village of Burniston was hit in a night-time ...
WW2 Archive File List Of Contents. This 'Blue Folder' in our library has a collection of newspaper and other articles in. Contact us for more information (updated 2015) A Return To Normandy 70 Years On - Scarborough Evening...
Blackouts in Scarborough during WW2 From the beginning of the war, precautions were taken to 'black-out' all lights. This was essential as it soon became clear that most bombing raids would take place at night. It was thought that a light ...
WW2 Childhood memories Transcript below is from an oral interview supplied by Gloria Pickering, nee Rollinson. It tells of her brother Kenneth’s childhood memories of wartime in Scarborough. It was compiled at The Howarth Unit at Scarborough...
WW2 Civil Defence Since the mid-1930s British war planning had assumed that a war against Germany would unleash a mass bombing of the country by the Luftwaffe, possibly involving the use of poison gas. The planners therefore developed a system of ...
Scarborough and D-Day June 1944 Scarborough and Tourism The Second World War had had a disastrous impact on tourism in Scarborough in 1940, ‘41 and ’42. But things picked up in 1943. There were high hopes for 1944. D-Day ended s...
WW2 Dunkirk The Coronia and Regal Lady were built in the 1930's. The Regal Lady was built at Great Yarmouth. During the 1930's the majoirty of people stayed in Britain for their holidays. Their holidays would be&n...
WW2 Evacuees Courtesy of Jack Binns' book 'History of Scarborough' In September 1938 Scarborough received 60,000 gas masks. A year later 5000 children and teachers from Hull arrived in Scarborough. That was followed by a furth...
Fishermen at War Between January and April 1940 numerous Scarborough fishing boats (or boats crewed by Scarborough men) were attacked by the Luftwaffe: Persian Empire, Aucuba, Cardew, Courage, Hilda, Mary Joy, Riby, Our Magg...
The Home Guard and coastal defences in WW2 Scarborough With Scarborough being a prohibited area and the threat of invasion on everyone's minds defences were erected very quickly in and around the town. Rolls of barbed wire and posts were put o...
Scarborough 1940 to 1941 Written March 2006 by Winifred Cappleman, aged 97 for her son Peter. Courtesy of the Scarborough Commanet Archive, see https://www.sahs.org.uk/Scarborough-Community-Archive.html World War Two commenced on the ...
WW2 website links: Bletchley Park British Legion Post War Britain Imperial War Museum VE Day photos A Scarborian talks about life in the war part 1 Scarborough Air Raid account BBC Archive of WW2 diaries and events ...
Post-war Scarborough 1945 General Election: The results in Scarborough and Whitby constituency were as follows. Nationally, Labour enjoyed a landslide victory. Vote in Scarborough and Whitby % of the vote...
Rationing Rationing was introduced in January 1940 for bacon, ham, sugar and butter. It was extended` as more commodities became scarce and as prices for them rose: March 1940 – meat; July 1940 – tea, margarine and cooking fat; March 1...
WW2 related deaths in Scarborough: Fatal walk on beach – By Marie Belfitt Mary Wardell was shot dead by a soldier as she walked on the South Bay on 14th September 1940. The event was shrouded in wartime rep...
Salvage and Recycling The range and volume of materials salvaged in wartime Scarborough was impressive. In the Council’s Salvage Depot there were large amounts of ferrous and non-ferrous (containing no iron) metals, books and wastepaper. The...
WW2 Brief Timeline 1939 Hitler invades Poland on 1 September. Britain and France declare war on Germany two days later. 1940 Rationing starts in the UK. German 'Blitzkrieg' overwhelms Belgium, Holland and France. Churc...
Trawling During WW2 As in the previous conflict the Government recognized that trawlers and fishermen had an essential role in the maintenance of Britain's sea lanes and the Admiralty was keen to get minesweeping operations underway. The...
VE Day On the 7th of May 1945 at 7.30pm the B.B.C. interrupted a piano recital to announce that the war in Europe was over and that the following day would be V.E. Day, a public holiday. In Scarborough there was a brief civic occasion in ...
WW2 war memorial listings CWGC Listing of Service personnel killed in WW2 (Manor Road Cemetery) surname forename age death rank regiment ...
Wider World Involvement During the war many nationalities came to Scarborough to be billeted and train as servicemen: Canadians, Americans, Czechs, French, South Africans and Poles. It is not always appreciated how much support was given to Britai...
Women helping with the War Many women replaced conscripted men in the workforce, taking up jobs in transport, wartime administration and the war industries. In Scarborough male conductors on the buses were replaced by women. One little girl wa...
“Y” Station and Wrens From the beginning of the war, the Royal Navy used their secret “Y” Listening Station on Sandybed Lane to eavesdrop on German naval communications. The old Sandybed station was replaced by a much large...
Wykeham street - German raid 1914 A remarkable story of heroism during the bombardment of Scarborough in 1914 from the Scarborough Mercury 24th December WYKEHAM STREET TRAGEDY - FAMILY PRACTICALLY WIPED OUT - A SON'S HEROISM - VAIN EFFORTS ...
Wyrill Crawford - Scarborough fisherman Wyrill Crawford is a famous name in the old town. Its a name passed down over several generations. This article was sourced by Vanessa Milner of Scarborough Archives Group. It appeared in the Scarborough Eve...
Scarborough Yacht Club has been in exsistence since 1895 Here are some extracts from a book about the Club. You can find more on their website at: http://www.syc.org.uk/ ...
The early trawlers - Yarmouth and Barking and Brixham From the book North Sea fishers and Fighters - by Walter Wood 1911 Yarmouth was the cradle of the beam trawling. From that famous old port the first of the beam equipped smacks sailed, and i...
Yawls This page features articles on this website that mention Yawls in some way. Accidents at sea Accidents at sea The following article was in the Scarborough Mercury in 1910. It was entitled "SCARBOROUGH HERRING SEASON - ...
The Yeoman Rifles 1916 R.I.P. - Riflemen Edmund Daws - Rifleman James Alfred Alcock - Rifleman John Bedford Rowley - Rifleman Harold Fowler - Rifleman Horace Pugmire - Sergeant Samuel Beecher Horsman - Acting Corporal Harry Mitchell [Scalby...
Yorkshire Coast history This page features articles on this site which mention the Yorkshire Coast. 20th anniversary of the bombardment German bombardment - 20th anniversary The following article appeared in the 16th December, 1934...
Yorkshire Coast Shipwreck Map One of the finest maritime books written is 'Shipwrecks of the Yorkshire Coast' by Arthur Geodfrey & Peter Lassey (published in 1974 by Dalesman Books). They spent many years researching details about the ...
The Yorkshire Regiment - 1917 In Remembrance of - Second Lieutenant Henry Lawrence - Private Joseph Henry Sails Following their heroic attack and subsequent defence on the ‘Stuff Redoubt’ and ‘Hessian Trench’ at Thiepva...
Four mums in a boat: the story of 'Yorkshire Rows' In 2016, Anglia Research sponsored 'Yorkshire Rows' – four intrepid Yorkshire women who braved hurricanes, sharks, sea sickness and salt rash to row across the Atlantic,...
Yorkshire's last traditional sailing fishing coble Sailing cobles were once a common sight on the North east Coast of England. Pronounced 'cobble', the name is thought to be rooted in the Celtic 'Ceubal' or the breton 'Caub...
The third battle of Ypres - World War One Having suffered over a hundred and seventy thousand casualties during the Arras Offensive one may have assumed that the British High Command would have had enough of costly offensives. Nothing could be fur...
Wipers 3 - The Great War In Remembrance of - Private Walker Wilson Kitchen - Private Arthur Oldridge - Second Lieutenant Ernest Horsley - Second Lieutenant Edward Thomas Rines - Private Edwin Jones Wood Whilst the fighting on the Western F...
Third Wipers - World War One In Remembrance of - Second Lieutenant Hugh Colborne Graham - Private William Ernest Foster - Private James Goodill - Private Louis Edward Normanton - Corporal George Ernest Adams - Gunner Frederick Hunter - Seco...