1914. Scarborough, the day they bombed a seaside town.

1914.Scarborough, the day they bombed a seaside town.
The devastating attack that followed on Scarborough, together with Hartlepool and Whitby, was the first time civilians had been targeted on English soil during the First World War. It so shocked the nation that ‘Remember Scarborough’ became a rallying cry for a huge recruitment campaign.

[@gazof-the-north5708]

Interviews with people who were actually there! This is a bar of 24 carat history. Thank You.

[@deardiary8292]

I never knew about this at all, you think about World War One being a trench war that barely affected the people.

[@speakfreeley4473]

Presenter is Austin Mitchell. Just before he became an MP.

[@stephenbrown321]

Think this is from 1977.

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2 wykemham Street
I went to see the house the other week they have a sign up for remenberans of all the people who died in the house.

[@babs66]

Yes they are going up each year for all the victims. I'm related to Mrs H Harland.

[@lovemytuneskristian7751]

good doc.