Good old Scarborough

[postman]

Just watched Look North.A few millions have been spent in the best seaside place in the world.Along with doing up the cricket ground a little while ago.The old gal is making a comeback.I just love the place,so many memories happy and sad.If you have never been go and have a day out.You don't know what you are missing.

 

[vernon]

I'm a Whitby man myself.

 

[Mark_Robson]

We were at Scarborough a few weeks ago and had a great day. we went out on the white steamer and it cost coppers. Had tea at The Spa and used the open topped bus to get about. The prices were excellent and my only grumble is that I had to pay for my daughter to use the public loo. Oh and the place was nipping clean.

We have done Whitby to death, hence the extra thirty minutes in the car to get to Scarborough.

 

[Dayvo]

Spent many happy holidays in and around Scarborough ( I liked Filey beach best - great for beach cricket).

I used to overdose on knickerbocker glories at Jacomelli's (IIRC).

 

[marshmella]

Just watched Look North.A few millions have been spent in the best seaside place in the world.Along with doing up the cricket ground a little while ago.The old gal is making a comeback.I just love the place,so many memories happy and sad.If you have never been go and have a day out.You don't know what you are missing.

Went up to scarborough for the first time last August, had never been to North Yorkshire before, we really enjoyed it.Went to Filey aswell and Whitby where we had the customary fish and chips at a chippie by the fish market.

 

[Bromptonaut]

Just watched Look North.A few millions have been spent in the best seaside place in the world.Along with doing up the cricket ground a little while ago.The old gal is making a comeback.I just love the place,so many memories happy and sad.If you have never been go and have a day out.You don't know what you are missing.

+1. Mum went as a child with her parents and grandparents before the war. Exercise repeated a generation later in the sixties with my sis & I and in the noughties with my own kids and their cousins.

Mum's reached 85 and after a fall in 2010 thought she'd seen the place for the last time. Gradually regaining her mobility now and talking about next year!!

 

[ColinJ]

I've lived in West Yorkshire for 25 years but I've not yet made it over to the East coast. I must ride over there one day and spend some time visiting Scarborough, Whitby, Filey, Robin Hoods Bay and all those other places I've heard so much about.

 

[vernon]

You don't know what you are missing. There's some great cycling to be had. There's not many hills just some very deep valleys......

 

[snorri]

Do they still have litle green huts down on the beach at these York-shire resorts where they invite you to pay an entry fee to view the "Giant Tunny Fish" laid out on ice flakes inside?

Goodness knows what a tunny fish is but they looked big to a little boy!

 

[zacklaws]

I bike up to Scarborough and beyond about 4 times a year and I never relish the road around the headland between the two bays with it being made from cobblestones, shakes your bike to pieces with the constant juddering

 

[postman]

Well how loved is the old place.What a lot of replies.There is something for everyone i believe in Scarborough.I find it so relaxing.My mum and dad loved the place.And gave me that same joy.

 

[SimonC]

I'm off there first Saturday in July for our works trip.

Afternoon in pubs, fish and chips, quick kip, shower, evening in pubs, food, long kip. Home on Sunday. Cant wait.

Any good boozers to recommend?? Digs are on a road running up from seafront, so any nearby would be good.

 

[Spinney]

I've lived in West Yorkshire for 25 years but I've not yet made it over to the East coast. I must ride over there one day and spend some time visiting Scarborough, Whitby, Filey, Robin Hoods Bay and all those other places I've heard so much about.

There's lots of roads with 'Bank' as part of their name. You'll enjoy cycling up those.

 

[Alan Whicker]

I'm a well-travelled chap, and Scarboro' is one of my favourite places in the world. My auntie lived there - in fact, my earliest memory is of lying in my pram in the kitchen of the B&B she owned up by the castle. Our family used to go at least twice a year until she died, and I didn't visit again until about fifteen years ago. I was worried that all the things that made it so magical for us as kids would have gone - but when we went back, not much was different (redevelopments apart - the Corner Bar and seawater pool have gone). In fact, one of the few things that had changed was that at the Naval Warfare at Peasholm park, what was very definitely the German Navy in the 70s and 80s was now just called 'The Enemy'.

Harbour Bar... Hispaniola on the Mere ... Jacomelli's... Futurist Theatre... Corrigan's amusements ... MV Coronia ... Harrybob's Cave ... Boyes' Dept Store ... Olivers Mount ... Scalby Mills ... Marineland ... Corner Bar ... The Spa ... Grand Hotel ... John Werrit's "fancy goods" shop ... Italian Gardens ...

*sigh*

damn, I seem to have something in my eye.

 

[Alan Whicker]

SimonC - one thing Scarboro does lack is decent boozers (Eastborough has some rough holes indeed). The Golden Ball by the harbour is pretty good, though.