1870s VICTORIAN SOUVENIR CABINET ALBUM PHOTO BOOK SCARBOROUGH YORKSHIRE ENGLAND!

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HERE’S A Ca.
1870s
VICTORIAN ERA
SOUVENIR CABINET ALBUM PHOTO BOOK TITLED:
“THE NEW
CABINET ALBUM
OF
SCARBOROUGH
COPYRIGHT
”
A vintage accordion style album book of Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England with 24 views on 12 glossy photographic plates. The book measures
4¾”x 5½”
and has some wear and light soiling, but is tight, and still displays nicely (see listing photos).
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HISTORY OF SCARBOROUGH, ENGLAND
Scarborough
(
/ˈskɑːrbrə/
) is a seaside town in the
Borough of Scarborough
in
North Yorkshire
, England. Scarborough is located on the
North Sea
coastline.
Historically
in the
North Riding of Yorkshire
, the town lies between 10 and 230 feet (3–70 m) above sea level, from the harbour rising steeply north and west towards
limestone
cliffs. The older part of the town lies around the harbour and is protected by a rocky headland.
With a population of 61,749, Scarborough is the largest
holiday resort
on the
Yorkshire Coast
and largest seaside town in North Yorkshire. The town has fishing and service industries, including a growing digital and creative economy, as well as being a tourist destination. Residents of the town are known as Scarborians
Resort development
Photo
of Scarborough, 1890s
Scarborough and its castle changed hands seven times between Royalists and Parliamentarians during the
English Civil War
of the 1640s, enduring two lengthy and violent sieges. Following the civil war, much of the town lay in ruins.
In 1626, Mrs Thomasin Farrer
discovered a stream of acidic water running from one of the cliffs to the south of the town.This gave birth to
Scarborough Spa
, and Dr Robert Wittie's book about the spa waters published in 1660 attracted a flood of visitors to the town. Scarborough Spa became
Britain
's first seaside resort, though the first rolling
bathing machines
were not reported on the sands until 1735. It was a popular getaway destination for the wealthy of London, such as the bookseller
Andrew Millar
and his family. Their son Andrew junior died there in 1750.
The coming of the
Scarborough–York
railway in 1845 increased the tide of visitors.
Scarborough railway station
claims a record for the world's longest platform seat.From the 1880s until the First World War, Scarborough was one of the regular destinations for
The Bass Excursions
, when fifteen trains would take between 8,000 and 9,000 employees of Bass's Burton brewery on an annual trip to the seaside.
Maritime events
During the
First World War
, the town was bombarded by
German
warships of the
High Seas Fleet
, an act which shocked the British (see
Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby
).
Scarborough Pier Lighthouse
, built in 1806, was damaged in the attack.A
U-boat
assault on the town, on 25 September 1916 saw three people killed and a further five injured. Eleven of Scarborough's
trawler
fleet were sunk at sea in another U-boat attack, on 4 September 1917.
In 1929, the steam drifter
Ascendent
caught a 560-pound (250 kg) tunny (
Atlantic bluefin tuna
) and a Scarborough showman awarded the crew 50
shillings
so he could exhibit it as a tourist attraction.
Big-game tunny fishing off Scarborough
effectively started in 1930 when Lorenzo "Lawrie" Mitchell–Henry, landed a tunny caught on rod and line weighing 560 pounds (250 kg).A gentlemen's club, the British Tunny Club, was founded in 1933 and set up its headquarters in the town at the place which is now a restaurant with the same name.Scarborough became a resort for high society.A women's world tuna challenge cup was held for many years.
Colonel (and, later, Sir)
Edward Peel
landed a world-record tunny of 798 pounds (362 kg), capturing the record by 40 pounds (18.1 kg) from one caught off
Nova Scotia
by American champion
Zane Grey
.The British record which still stands is for a fish weighing 851 pounds (386 kg) caught off Scarborough in 1933 by Laurie Mitchell-Henry.
On 5 June 1993, Scarborough made international headlines when a
landslip
caused part of the
Holbeck Hall Hotel
, along with its gardens, to fall into the sea. Although the slip was shored up with rocks and the land has long since grassed over, evidence of the cliff's collapse remains clearly visible from The Esplanade, near Shuttleworth Gardens.
Scarborough has been affiliated with a number of
Royal Navy
vessels, including
HMS
Apollo
,
HMS
Fearless
and
HMS
Duncan
.
Landmarks
The town has an
Anglican
church,
St Martin-on-the-Hill
, built in 1862–63 as the parish church of South Cliff. It contains works by
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
,
William Morris
,
Edward Burne-Jones
and
Ford Madox Brown
. A young
Malton
architect, John Gibson, designed the
Crown Spa Hotel
, Scarborough's first purpose-built hotel. Notable Georgian structures include the
Rotunda Museum
,
Cliff Bridge
and
Scarborough Pier Lighthouse
. Victorian buildings include the Classical Public Library and Market Hall, the
Town Hall
,
Scarborough Spa
, the
Art Gallery
, the South Cliff Methodist Church, and
Scarborough railway station
. The architecture of Scarborough generally consists of small, low, orange
pantile
-roofed buildings in the historic old town, and larger
Classical
and late Victorian buildings reflecting the time during the 19th century as it expanded away from its historic centre into a coastal spa resort.
A notable landmark in the town is the
Grand Hotel
on St Nicholas Cliff. Designed by
Cuthbert Brodrick
of Hull, it was completed in 1867; at the time of its opening, it was the largest hotel and the largest brick structure in Europe. It uses local yellow brickwork with red detailing and is based around a theme of time: four towers represent the seasons, 12 floors the months, 52 chimneys the weeks and the original 365 bedrooms represented the days of the year. A
blue plaque
outside the hotel marks where the novelist
Anne Brontë
died in 1849. She was buried in the graveyard of
St Mary's Church
by the castle.
An amount of 20th century architecture exists within the main shopping district and in the form of surrounding suburbs. Buildings from this century include the
Futurist Theatre
(1914),
Stephen Joseph Theatre
,
Brunswick Shopping Centre
(1990), and
GCHQ Scarborough
, a satellite station on the outskirts of the town.
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