By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-04 14:31:32 | Updated at 2025-01-09 19:14:04
5 days ago
Fascinating historic photos of Scarborough offer glimpse inside seaside resort's glory days
UK Daily Mail ^ | January 3, 2024 | Esther Marshall
Posted on 01/04/2025 6:01:23 AM PST by C19fan
Scarborough is one of the UK's best-known seaside destinations, with a long history of leisure tourism that dates back to the 17th century.
Scarborough Civic Society explains: 'These discerning early visitors sought pleasure as well as health. They demanded - and were prepared to pay for - the best of everything, from accommodation, food and drink to theatrical performances.'
The Yorkshire seaside spot was also a base for the fishing and shipbuilding industries with an active harbour.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: edwardian; england
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1 posted on 01/04/2025 6:01:23 AM PST by C19fan
To: C19fan
“Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
—parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme...”
2 posted on 01/04/2025 6:03:43 AM PST by kosciusko51
To: C19fan
Wait until the religion of hate destroys it all and builds a mosque.
3 posted on 01/04/2025 6:06:01 AM PST by Da Coyote (H)
To: Da Coyote
Plus a Hindu temple .
Those two groups have decimated England forever .
4 posted on 01/04/2025 6:18:16 AM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
To: Da Coyote
> Wait until the religion of hate destroys it all and builds a mosque. <
Anyone who doubts that should take a look at Beirut. Beirut was once called “The Paris of the Middle East”. Not so much now.
5 posted on 01/04/2025 6:19:55 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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