Today’s plan is walking into Scarborough along the coast and back via rail. Sort of.
We drop down through Scalby village and head due east to get to the coast before turning south and heading into town. The first part is along the cliff tops looking down to the unpopulated beach and rocks below, before we cross a headland and then drop onto the northern beach passing Sea Life, which is the Peasholm area of the town, and continue around the sweeping bay until at the other end we climb up to the castle, just to get a view.
Descending once again we continue around the headland the castle is built on until we enter the southern bay, firstly round the harbour and then continuing to the far end and the southern cliffs.
Here is the site of the former Holbeck Hall Hotel, which slipped into the sea during a massive landslide in 1993. Over a million tonnes of rock and earth came tumbling from the cliff bringing a large portion of the hotel with it over the course of a 48 hour period. Happily no-one was hurt.
As we walk through town we check out various familiar places - the spa, the Grand and the Royal - and one that’s now lost - the Futurist theatre, where we performed in 1988, before my time with company but Hubby remembers. We finish by walking past SJT, that is Stephen Joseph Theatre, before heading into Sainsbury’s - nope not for petrol, this is in search of the railway, or more specifically the track, now disused, but a good way to find our way back home as it curves through the suburbs.
Then we decide we should have a nibble so head to the terrace in search of tea and scone, which soon arrive. The weather is beautiful and we laze away the remainder of the afternoon with the sun, vodka and gin!
The hotel is younger than it’s gothic looks, having been built in 1881 to Arts and Crafts designed interiors. After sixty years it was bequeathed to the council, who ran it as an adult college for some time before selling it as an hotel in 1981. The current owners bought it in 2012 and gutted it before taking it seriously up-market, which took them six years to complete.
The staff and owners are all very pleasant, I’m sure that when the need arises we’ll be back here, hopefully when covid challenges mean the restaurant isn’t restricted to the normal menu!
Tonight the menu is the same as lat night, but that’s OK as there is sufficient on the list to last three days. However anyone staying longer might feel a little disadvantaged in due course. Also, it’s not fine dining like we’ve just experienced at Hambleton although at half the price we wouldn’t expect it to be, we’re reasonably happy that our expectation is lower so our satisfaction is satisfied.
Tonight’s dinner is a case in point, the cheesecake starter is imaginative, and the fishcake very predictable
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