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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 out of no where and the lifeboat would be there to help just in case. On the 8th December 1954 such...
Coastal erosion, 19th C Scarborough
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 ...
Coble boats of Filey, Flamborough and Runswicks Bay
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 along the Scarborough and Filey coast
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...
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...
German raid - stories from Scarborough
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...
Gristhorpe Bay - privateers, rights to wrecks and periwinkles
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 ...
Inns, smuggling and illicit stills
Scarborough's heyday of Inns, Smuggling and Illicit stills 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 Norm...
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...
Ketch is swamped off Scarborough
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...
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 ...
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...
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Mercury account of bombardment
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 ...
Personal account of 1880 storm at Scarborough
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...
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...
Scarborough's heydays of inns,smuggling and illicit stills
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 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...
Smuggling of contraband along the Scarborough coast
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...
Submarine attack on Scarborough's South Bay
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...
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...
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...
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...
WW2 in Scarborough - article list
Second World War in Scarborough This page features articles on this site which mention World War Two in some way. Attacks On Trawlers in Scarborough in WW2 Attacks On Trawlers in Scarborough in WW2 It was Scarborough's fi...
