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Charlotte Bronte’s Seaside Visits
Charlotte and Anne Bronte visited the Yorkshire Coast on several occasions during their lifetimes. Their visits included trips to Scarborough, Bridlington, Filey and other locations. Charlotte’s first ‘holiday’ took place in Bridlington, or Burlington as it was then called, in 1839. Sadly, just a decade later, in May 1849, her younger sister Anne died in…
Read MoreThomas Fawcett Hutton – A Scarborough Artist
Thomas Fawcett Hutton was a British artist born in 1867 in Scarborough. He sadly passed away in 1886 at the young age of 19. According to the 1871 census, Thomas was living in St Thomas Street, Scarborough. Thomas was the son of James Hutton, a greengrocer and who was latterly a Mayor of Scarborough from…
Read MoreGeorge Fox in Scarborough
George Fox (1642 to 1691) was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers. From 1647 he preached publicly and he believed the Holy Spirit guided him, he was against any religious rituals. He called churches ‘steeple-houses’, shunning the idea that churches were places of religious experience. Authorities disapproved of…
Read MoreKing Richard III: ‘Rogue Royal’ in Scarborough
While he had a short regal reign, Richard III was one of our most memorable monarchs. Born in 1452, he was brother to Edward IV. Richard Plantagenet of the House of York was crowned King Richard III on 6th July 1483. He led the Yorkist forces in the final battle of the War of the Roses at…
Read MoreThe Tolkien Triangle
Tolkein’s Yorkshire Connections Perhaps you’ve watched the films, read the books or done both … yet have you heard of the Tolkien Triangle here in Yorkshire? Tolkien’s masterpieces – The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings – were published in the 1930s. Most of the above were written in the years that followed his service in the…
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