The Hull and Holderness Railway Co. was promoted and largely funded by Anthony Bannister, businessman of Hull. He wanted to develop the terminus at Withernsea as an up-market resort and in anticipation of this bought-up large parcels of land in the parish on which his plans would be put into effect, then selling the housing […]
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The photo above is of a painting by a Mr. Gammidge dated 1880 and showing a sailing ship, the Saffron’, which punched a hole through the newly built Withernsea Pier and was then beached south of the Pier. Clearly a sailing ship, the main mast had been lowered pointing to the stern, and with a
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When thinking about coastal studies, and resorts in particular, it soon happens that similar histories crop-up in different places, indeed this is why local history alone can fall short.The financial failure of the proposed cliff-top resort at Ravenscar and of the similar project at Withernsea on the Holderness coast is one such example, although Withernsea
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Most of the man-made scars on the cliff-face in the coastline north and south of Ravenscar are not the result of the planned gardens of a new resort (s.p.b.s) but a result of the alum open-cast mining along and above the cliffs. Certainly in the 18th and early 19th centuries alum quarrying was a major
The photo above shows the view north-east from the patio of Clock Cafe, South Bay, Scarborough (s.p.b.).South Cliff Gardens is in fact an amalgamation of a number of ‘garden’ areas that were created below the Esplanade at various points of time. To catalogue these separate points from north to south: the gardens above and either
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