1939 Scarborough in August

Footage filmed in the August of 1939 in Scarborough, where my grandparents and father were on holiday.

[@fordlandau]

Ww 2 started a month later. This is an end of era film. Marvellous.

[@TheMightyKinkle]

I know yeah!

[@ericholmes8665]

What a gorgeous,nostalgic film, just taken to record a holiday, but now a walk back in time,love the South side, in all honesty its all about the same,except of course the outdoor pool has gone,apart from the hair styles the Clock cafe looks just the same,thank you so much for sharing this film with us.

[@gunlokman]

I've lived in Scarborough now for at least 10 years (born in Robin-Hoods-Bay) and it's great seeing this film of how it used to be - pure archive gold-dust! Thank you so much for posting.

[@netherwallop]

I grew up in Yorkshire and knew Scarborough well - lovely to see how it was then. Notice the cerulean blue skies without the covert geoengineering stripes and constant haze dimming the sun going on today

[@garrywhitehouse8687]

Just looks the same. My grandma was from Scarborough and her dad was the harbour master in 1939

[@peterh1353]

Gold dust if you are in to history.

[@stepheng8779]

Hardly, it's nice to see but gold dust??

[@peterh1353]

@@stepheng8779 A love local history. Feel free not to be as excited. Free world.

[@r315rer]

This is a wonderful piece of filming in such great condition. Really appreciate it. Thank you so much for sharing. I have saved it! 🙋‍♀️

[@albertmcmullen2669]

I understand Charles Lawton the actor was born in Scarborough and, that his family owned a hotel in that City. Delightful scenes.

[@phillee3080]

This is brilliant. thank you for putting it on.

[@markhodgkins4583]

Amazing! at 8.02 is a clear picture of the house was born in in Mere View Gardens ! Thanks for posting!

[@ericgeorge5483]

Back when Scarborough was a proper resort. I love the place but its been declining for decades.

[@Emily-vs9ju]

Beautiful footage of a bygone age

[@katiecustard100]

This is wonderful thank you !

[@nancyhobson9710]

Thanks so much for posting. Reminds of times my grandparents talked about.

[@athenassigil5820]

A whole way of life gone forever.....that's life, though.....wonderful video of a long list era...Greetings from Canada

[@kittyroo-x4p]

What get me are the fashions for the women. In the space of 20 years women's fashion had gone from full on Victorian long dresses and massive hats in 1919 to scantily clad bathing suits in 1939. The dramatic revolution in dress is quite amazing.

[@marklevesley1]

Thanks for posting a comment skunkhead. Always great to have some background to the footage and put some pieces of history together.

[@NoosaHeads]

Colour movie film was phenomenally expensive in 1939 - probably two or three times the price of black and white, after processing. I think this is 16mm film, which was already very expensive and generally out of the financial reach of most ordinary people. This amateur photographer must have been either wealthy or very committed. From the appearance, this was early Kodachrome, which came out in 1935. Check out some of the colour movies done by Eva Braun. She used Agfa colour film. Not as good as Kodachrome, IMO but good nevertheless.

[@christopherbusby1726]

Please let me go back in time for a day.

[@anthonywalsh785]

great film from 81 years ago now, and indeed ww2 started in just a couple of weeks. hard to believe but all in this film have now probably passed away.

[@stepheng8779]

Right Mr Happy aren't you

[@anthonywalsh785]

@@stepheng8779 i don't understand your comment.. i was just stating the obvious.

[@markholroyde9412]

@@anthonywalsh785 Why bother if it was "the obvious" which it is...to a degree, my Mum was there in 39 and she is still alive

[@marthacattell3607]

Hi There Mark this film is so great, I wondered if we could show it at an archive screening event in Scarborough in January?

[@outofthemark]

Yes, Martha, that would be no problem at all.

[@marthacattell3607]

@@outofthemark Thanks mark thats great :)

[@skunkhead2007]

me dad played for scarbro footy team back in the day pre 1950s,my grandmutha and uncle john had valentes ices,my second cousin george lived above corrigans,and had the bar in primrose valley,they lived (spelling) sepulca street,we were friends with Di Placidos,jaconelli,alonzos and we married into minchellas of south shields valentes also moved to weymouth where the brutha of my granmutha vena setteld and had his own family............used to live going there when a was a kid,never wanted for anything everything was free for me i was very fortunate as a youngster,me dad went to st peters school i think actor charles lawton also went there,me dad said he seen some of the big tuna which were caught from scarbro back in the day......love the place its just when i get there i always get upsett as everyone is gone now (passed on) so its rarely i go now unless im fishing in whitby then sometimes i just cant help but drive there,memories are great

[@MrIrfan12345]

lovely the way you wrote about your memmories.Tragic the south bay pool is gone ,to be replaced by NOTHING.

[@sussybaka7532]

I went to at peters

[@almonkey1]

has that pool been replaced by the south bay aerial panorama?

[@TheMightyKinkle]

Shame that outdoor pool isn't there anymore

[@doubtingthomas736]

Priceless!

[@hungryboy424]

Amazing footage !

[@ericgeorge5483]

You can almost hear the "BROOM-SHANKS UP THEIR ARSE" accents, Magnificent upload, thank you.

[@nottmjas]

People just like us enjoying themselves, probably during the bank holiday weekend in late August, not knowing what's about to hit them just days later. Who knows if something similar might hit us shortly.

[@High-Rise]

Some people today have worse cameras than that, and that was 1939!

[@jetblack.7186]

We happened to be walking past this several years ago and the council were knocking it down and burning all the huts and changing rooms. I had my video camera and taped it. Really sad because we used to swim there in the 1960s.

[@AndrewLumsden]

A few weeks/days before the outbreak of war, everyone seems remarkably relaxed!!

[@juliesherwin8016]

Lovely footage :)

[@2mikelim]

Was this shot on 8mm or 16mm film? Kodachrome?

[@outofthemark]

16 mm Kodachrome, I think.

[@happyfreedom4886]

Hello, Mark. My 11 yrs old daughter is making her own MV just for fun. She is singing Scarborough Fair. I am wondering if she could use this video as her video background? Thank you very much！

[@happyfreedom4886]

BTW, she will be only using part of the view, no close look of people. Thank you and happy New Year!

[@quietman2672]

When we knew who was amongst us

[@narabdela]

Who?

[@bassboomboing]

Amazing footage.

[@JWVideo3]

awesome footage, got a little bit "The Ring" like just at the end tho...

[@geoffcoulson3237]

The grand probably hasn't been decorated since ,however the Royal Hotel is beautiful...just saying.

[@SuperTinyeyes]

I would really love to use this footage in an art project celebrating the history of Scarborough. Is this something you could help with? Great footage by the way.

[@outofthemark]

Yes no problem.

[@TheDosshouse]

The darkening at the very end is a reminder of the date.

[@kevinmaltby4202]

Not a tattoo in sight. Bliss!

[@lexireynolds9386]

Month later: WW2... Years later: end of WW2. 48 years later: Holbeck hall fell into the sea 14 years later: I came to life 12 years later: Luna park lost the wheel Others: pool closed down, a water park closed down and Alpamare came, a theme park was abandoned near open air theatre. Others: not much...

[@gsquaredthebassman]

Lovely film. The age of innocence.

[@jmally3670]

I love not much has changed

[@DaveScarboroughUK]

Great footage!

[@gonzo3915]

Grand, thanks.

[@johnalexander5535]

Yes August and overcoats needed.

[@ralphmctell5210]

Wonderful!

[@tomkent4656]

16mm Kodachrome?

[@davidurchyk1421]

Wonder how many survived the war?

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

David Urchyk most would

[@7abumuhammad]

Scarborough Ontario?!?

[@outofthemark]

Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK

[@nigelkthomas9501]

Coloured film in 1939? Pfff! Wow! Bet it was expensive!

[@m222rjr]

Now don't you worry son. Hitler won't cause us any problems. You just get on with your ice cream and enjoy your holiday.

[@jhelmerp]

Kodachrome stock, I presume?

[@outofthemark]

Certainly is.

[@67gromit]

not a foreinger in sight,the good old days

[@moodyguymick]

Agreed.

[@Curi0u50ne]

Greasy Ranks🤣😂nothing ignorant about Kim's view, the government sold the country out, flooded with immigrants from everywhere then taxed everyone heavily, economy slaving the 9 to 5. Out of every one or zero hours of your that unfortunate, but your too ignorant to see that. Immigrant weasels undercutting everyone causing quality and standards of living go down the loo. But your too ignorant to see that.

[@iamkman]

Bec you were in Foreign lands, Occupying half the world sweat heart! and when your economy needed people guess what it was the foreigners who came to work as well

[@leemaddison1286]

Apart from the Vikings.

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

Are you an auditor of foreigners?

[@dandare2586]

Love this :) but what is this guy doing at 3:11 in the bra :0

[@outofthemark]

I have always assumed that he was part of some slapstick clowning act that seems to be in this part of film. There's a parade of ladies in swimwear (which may have been something to do with my grandfather, since he was a director of a ladies fashion brand) and then the man in the bra appears to be getting in their way. There is also a diving show a little later that also features some clowning.

[@dandare2586]

@@outofthemark Thanks for the reply. My Mom was still wearing that type of costume she obviously bought in the late 40's.........in the 1970's! I felt like I was bought up just after the war in the 1960's !

[@MichaelJohnson-sd1do]

@@dandare2586 I lived in Scarborough as a boy in the 60s. The clothes in this video are just like the ones my grandparents and aunts and uncles were still wearing in our family snaps from the 60s.

[@karengilbert2878]

Not avery nice person saying that we are all from god

[@markholroyde9412]

Wow, seeing what my Mum saw as a 13year old is mind blowing, She is still alive today age 95. Oct '21. Wonderful.

[@skunkhead2007]

superb footage,my dad would have been about 12-13 then he worked the beach his father my grandad Billy Hart owned the swingy boats on the sea front back then and my Grandmother Vena Valente had an ice cream company "Valentes ices"fantastic bit of footage

[@WillMeganFan]

This is an astonishingly great video. Scarborough looked as good back then as it does today. Thank you for the upload 👍

[@skunkhead2007]

somewhere in the video is my dad aunty chris uncle john and aunty eva,grandma valente great aunty chris uncle dick uncle earnie,earnie died in car crash coming over the moors from i think peckering in the fog one night,my dad ended up playing footy for scrbrough,we made ice cream and had some swingy boats and kids rides etc later cousin george had some franchise in blue dolphin and primrose valley,,,,george was the last of the valente family to die in 2010 the tuther decendents of our family live in stockton south shileds and weymouth and bristol as well as in the mutha land casinno italy

[@Vajra_Bodhi]

Thanks so much for the upload. My Dad told me stories: He'd been there on holiday with his parents at the outbreak of WW2. He was amazed as the Landlady where they were staying, was ready for war in 20 minutes. Gas mask, tin hat etc. Thanks again.

[@craigmullen9046]

Amazing stuff, read the book The unknown Warriors By Nicolas Pringle.

[@ericsmallman1904]

Go to Scarborough all the time, video shows how little it has actually changed since 1939!! Absolutely love the place.

[@harrygmattin]

Absolutely incredible! Thank you

[@flickfi]

Thrilled to bits to watch this, all family holidays spent in Scarborough from the fifties onwards. Still go there and rent a Spa chalet, the South side of Scarborough is my favourite part. Anyone interested in William Morris and the Pre Raphaelites should visit St Martins on the Hill Church, mind blowing, fabulous place. Still get sad and angry to see the Spa pool in its heyday, now no longer there, had such fun in that pool right up till the eighties. Thank you so much for posting this.

[@markferguson3917]

This is absolutely fantastic. Scarborough is my favorite coast destination.

[@tangerinedream7211]

I had a family holiday in the resort as a kid in 1968, took the touring caravan, remember the model boats battle in the park. Holiday savings purchase was a C16 Scalextric Ferrari P4, still got it today. A smashing film, record of days gone by, never to return, a slower less frantic time. A last throw of the dice before ww2, some of the folks in the film would never return .

[@bazz8938]

beautiful place ruined by successive councillors

[@oddities-whatnot]

A lovely innocent time. How sad they had to face such horrors soon after this.

[@Westminsterave1]

Great film. I first went to Scarborough in 1945 and went for many years. Still go frequently. Lots of visitors in the film and a lot less cars. Thanks for sharing this film. Tony

[@MrIrfan12345]

HI Tony i first visited Scarborough in 1994.The pool was in a rough condition not unsaveable.Did you swim in the pool a lot and what year did you last swim in it.Gutted its gone take care Steve.

[@nancyhobson9710]

Now imagine if once quarantine is finally over folks patronize the seaside places and the stores like this!

[@Barnaby_bo]

Scarborough was once a shining fun town. Now not so much. Shame really. Those people that have sat in the positions of power and steered the decline over several decades should be ashamed. But they won't. They will see it as a job well done.

[@mh20097110]

Not sure exactly when my grandparents first went to scarborough, my grandmother was stationed near scarborough during the war, at an internment camp. I was an incredibly special place for them, many a wonderful holiday spend there, I know they stayed in the grand hotel, somewhere I took my family to share an experience from over 60 years previous. I remember sitting in Pacitos some time in the 80's enjoying a knickerbocker glory when my grandmother remarked of sitting in the same ice cream parlour during the war... Ah the memories... Fantastic footage, thanks for sharing, brought a tear to my eye...

[@chriggle1]

Could it have been RAF Filey? That became Butlins Filey after the war ended

[@danieljames2015]

Fascinating. You feel like you can almost reach out to shake the hands of all these long gone souls.

[@davidvessey5144]

Was that swimming pool the now derelict South Bay swimming pool? Looks awesome

[@nervo6321]

It aint changed much.....one of my all time favourite places to visit.....thanks for posting....

[@lexireynolds9386]

Nervo 63 I live in Scarborough ya know

[@lexireynolds9386]

Just saying 😄

[@paulbroderick8438]

Not a dinghy in sight!

[@karengilbert2878]

Cant wait to go to scarborough good times

[@TheVaughan5]

Incredible look at a vanished World. The older generation always tell about wonderful Summers of the past but this indicates it wasn’t very warm on that August day when this was filmed.😁

[@lollyclan]

I loved this footage. Hard to believe it's so long ago. If only we could turn the clock back!!!!!!!! Wonderful film, thank you.

[@savedbygodsgrace.9058]

Very nice, thank you for sharing.

[@jonjon9047]

One thing has changed: Scarborough has gone downhill. One thing hasn’t: unpredictable August weather in Yorkshire.

[@sphughes01]

Wonderful, wonderful film. A great slice of social history. I know the summer of 1939 was especially hot and one that the British holiday makers could get the most from. Good job too with what was just around the corner. Shocking to think that some of the people in this film well have been bombed out or worse killed in German bombing in a little over a year's time. Moreover some could have been killed on active service overseas.

[@Mick_Holland]

Really enjoyable. However it's terrifying for me in that the time that passed between the filming and my first visit to Scarborough (24ish years) is much less than the elapsed time between today and my last visit there (30+ years)!

[@debbiewalker312]

Scarborough look so busy in the old days they spent so much time out doors l wasn't born in this year and my dad wasn't he born 1934 l were born in the 60s

[@2mikelim]

It was shot at 16fps silent speed and projected at 24fps sound speed. So things move faster. Should have projected at 16fps.

[@outofthemark]

Ah. Well, I'm no expert in these things. I simply gave the reels of film to a company to have it all put on disk. This was some years ago now, but if I were to do the process again I will be sure to take some more expert advice. Thank you.

[@chaddamp2894]

Thank you,a wonderful post xx

[@paulross2914]

Fascinating, even the footage at the end of the mere and what looks like a newly built Edgehill estate, now long gone. I lived in Scarborough from 1977 until 84, alot of the chalets and the pool was still there then. Love this film and would love to know the family story

[@outofthemark]

Paul Ross, My grandfather (the man in glasses) was a keen cinematographer, and this was his last summer holiday with my grandmother (the lady in the black trouser suit) and my father. The family were living in London but my grandmother was from Hartlepool and so places along the NE coast were favourite holiday destinations. My grandfather died in August of the following year.

[@paulross2914]

@@outofthemark thankyou, such great memories to have

[@peterdavis540]

Edgehill Estate not gone,but a shadow of its newly built glory. I was born and grew up there. Wouldn't change it for anything. .fascinating 😃

[@typhoon2827]

England was beautiful.

[@astragreen]

Where has all the people gone?

[@stepheng8779]

Used to be brilliant Scarborough. Too much been lost and left to rot, shame.

[@mikestravelshow]

I did a vlog on Scarborough last year.

[@michaelhoggarth89]

Thank you for sharing ... Great to watch...👍

[@spoffspoffington]

Wonderful to find out in the comments who shot the film

[@peterrat100]

Lovely Scarborough. Thank you.

[@DalekWindmill]

Where's the sound? (Joking) nice video!

[@nickknight5373]

Beautiful footage - thank you for sharing.

[@nervo6321]

It still looks exactly the same...

[@danmorley6517]

I know Scarborough pretty well, but I can't work out where the pool is that is being used for the diving show.

[@danmorley6517]

I think it was near the spa.

[@swf4841]

Is the boy in the movie your grandfather?

[@outofthemark]

No, it's my Dad.

[@swf4841]

@@outofthemark fascinating. I could watch these movies all day. Tell us more about the people.

[@karengilbert2878]

Not nice to say