Family Photo

Home on leave is Thomas Pottage of the 5th Yorkshire Regiment, RFA. Posing with him is his sisters Minnie, Clara, and Frances also with him are brothers Jack, George, and Frederick the year is 1914, Thomas was fatally gassed during the last years of the war.
As ive said before the Pottage family play a big part in Scarboroughs first world war years.

The Grand Hotel

TheGrand Hotel was built between 1862 and 1867 and was designed by Cuthbert Broderick.This imposing hotel was built in a prime position on St Nicholas Cliff allowing guests of unparalleled views of
 the coast line, the hotel was described as being the
most splendid of the Second Empire ever to be built in england. The RAF initial training wing was billited here during the second world war.

Paradise

The Holiday makers paradise,with its expance of clean sand (which is still the same today) its ice cream vendors and pebble stalls, you would here the well known cry of, Hokey pokey a penny a lump, thats the stuff to make you jump.This photograph taken about 1900 shows the hustle and bustle of a busy seaside town, you will notice the ladies with their parasols to keep the sun off, a pure white complexion was the fashion in them days,any sign of redness was regarded as being terribly common.

A Good Gossip.

These two ladies standing outside their homes on Castlegate look a little bit upset by having their privacy intruded upon, these properties date back to the 1790s but look how spic and span everything is. the carpets would be shaken and beaten every morning,the steps scrubbed and pummy stoned white. Most of these houses were demolished in 1940 when a land mine exploded.

Pre War Scarborough. A Sedate Mode of Transport.

The first cab to be seen on the streets of Scarborough appeared in 1836. By early 1900s over 200 cabs, Landaus and Hansoms were plying their trade. A feature of the seasons was the jockey carraige with the drivers dressed in silk blouses and racing colours. This photograph taken in lower Prospect Road shows Tot Pottage in topper on far left whose father was a cab proprietor

Royal Field Artillary

The three soldiers in this photograph, it was taken at St Johns Road Barracks, they are of the 5th Yorkshire Regiment, this photograph was taken just before they were sent to the front line, the only two out of the three soldiers we can name are from the left is Thomas Pottage and Freddy Ireland, both were later killed in France

John Pottage. Pre War

 The man  on left in this photograph ( John Pottage) became a sergeant in the veterinary corps in the first world war at the age of fifty. This man and his family played a very big part towards the war effort in Scarborough as you will see in photographs to come. The two gentlemen with him are (middle) Jack Howarth, (Right) Frank Rielly. Jack married Sally Duck and they ran a pub in Rillington, Frank was a staunch catholic and served in the East yorkshire regiment throughout the first world war