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Oh, we’ve always liked to be beside the seaside
As summer draws to a close for another year, hopefully many of us will be able to look back on happy holiday memories from the past few months.
Many of those memories will revolve around the seaside, whether that is North Yorkshire’s gorgeous coastline or elsewhere. That is all the excuse we need to take a trip back in time to glimpse how our parents, grandparents and beyond enjoyed the coast.
Once again, archivists from North Yorkshire’s County Record Office have chosen a variety of historic images to tell the story.
One thing is clear, the lure of sea and sand is eternal. We have always liked to beside the seaside.
The archive images on this page are among more than 6,500 available at the County Record Office. Browse the collection or buy photos.
If you have any further information about any of the images on this page, our archivists would be keen to hear about it. Please email yny@northyorks.gov.uk
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The Corner Café, North Bay, Scarborough, in the 1920s.
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A coloured postcard showing the beach at Whitby, circa 1960s to 1970s.
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A humorous Whitby postcard from the 1960s.
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Victorian or Edwardian bathing machines at Scarborough.
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The Citrono Brothers Neapolitan ice cream cart in Scarborough, from the Edwardian period. Ices were one penny or two pennies each.
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An L&NER poster promoting travelling to Whitby by train.
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A Punch and Judy show at Scarborough during the Edwardian period.
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Saltburn Pier in the 1950s or 1960s.
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A Scarborough holiday brochure from the 1950s and 1960s.
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A Scarborough holiday brochure from the 1950s and 1960s.
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Scarborough bathing pool in South Bay. Built during the First World War, it opened in July 1915 and offered unheated sea bathing until the 1980s.