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Scarborough’s Star Map
With a diameter of 26 metres, Scarborough’s Star Map, or Star Disk is the largest in the UK. While you can see it during the daylight, it’s during the night time hours it looks its best with 42 fibre-optic terminals representing the circumpolar stars and constellations. You can see easily identifiable constellations such as Ursa…
Read MoreShell Collection in Scarborough
Many of us will have wandered along the North and South Bays of Scarborough. We might have collected shells as part of the seaside experience. Yet Scarborough is known to be one of the locations for an impressive shell collection, part of the Scarborough Collections. You can see some of the shells at the Rotunda Museum,…
Read MoreCharlotte Bronte’s Fan
A fan, thought to have been given to Charlotte by her friend Ellen Nussey, can sometimes be seen at the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth. Fans are still used today, of course, usually for a practical purpose. However, there is a fascinating history associated with fans, which can be traced back to at least the…
Read MoreCharlotte Bronte’s Writing Desk
The writing desk of Charlotte Bronte (1816 to 1855) is a sight to see at the Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth. Today, we use the keyboard rather than the quill: seeing a nineteenth century version of a ‘word processor’ is fascinating. Charlotte Bronte’s writing desk can be seen as part of the museum’s experience, along with…
Read MoreScarborough 400
Scarborough 400 is the 400th anniversary of the discovery of spa waters in the coastal town. The celebration takes place in 2026, with more details set to be revealed soon. In 1626, a respectable Scarborough lady called Mrs Thomasin Farrer saw that water flowed from spring into the South Bay. The stones in the spring’s path…
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