Showing posts with label Scarborough. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scarborough. Show all posts
Thursday, 12 October 2023

When Scarborough became an Italian story …………

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The story of the German bombardment of Scarborough in 1914 is usually just a footnote in history books. That said it will still be marked ev...
Friday, 29 September 2023

Stories from Accrington ......

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 This is one of the images which for me sums up the 1920s. It comes from a French postcard and was sent to Ethel and John Fisher who were on...
Sunday, 24 October 2021

Amongst the Scarborough destruction ..... a human story

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The popular press has always looked for the human story amidst the more horrible things that can happen. And back in December 1914 the bomba...
Saturday, 23 October 2021

A postcard ...... the bombardent of Scarborough ..... and a mystery on Fennel Street

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  Now this is Fennel Street. Fennel Street close to number 45 on the left, 2021 And I think it is the closest we will get to Albert Halliwel...
Thursday, 8 October 2020

Sending the message of Scarborough to Belgium ……… holiday greetings in 1910

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I can see why Uncle Jim choose this postcard to send to his niece in Belgium. Of course, we will never actually know what he thought about t...
Sunday, 8 April 2018

The day Scarborough was shelled from the sea ....

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Now there will not be too many people who know  that the German Imperial navy bombarded Scarborough in the December of 1914. I have to ...
Saturday, 16 December 2017

On this day .... 103 years ago on the north Yorkshire coast

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Now I like the way the blog occasionally gets requests to do a story. Picture postcard pf the attack, 1914 And this week David Harrop...