is scarborough worth visiting

join me for a walk around the victorian seaside town of scarborough

[@GazTheExplorer]

Thought I would pass by and congratulate you on passing 1k subscribers. Always a good feeling getting the first 1k out the way.

[@thekiltedcyclist4698]

Cheers Gary, it took a wee while but, got there eventually. Thanks for your support.g

[@stevensmith1788]

Love Scarborough and try to get there as often as possible.

[@thekiltedcyclist4698]

I prefer it to Blackpool, as there are plenty places to visit nearby, cheers g.

[@JohnSmith-il3kv]

Music a bit loud trying to understand your accent....🙂

[@thekiltedcyclist4698]

Got the sound balance on this one wrong John, and it was a bit late to take the video down to change it, cheers g

[@JohnSmith-il3kv]

@@thekiltedcyclist4698 That's ok----mistakes happen... Take care.

[@Prasutagucaster]

Sadly years of a labour run council with lack of foresight, integrity and intelligence have run this town down. Half finished projects, poor planning decisions and granting too much ‘social’ housing ensure that appropriate businesses, different demographic of tourists and visionaries are no longer attracted to the town. Totally lost its appeal but the councillors seem to thrive, weird that.

[@thekiltedcyclist4698]

Too many jobsworths

[@matthewtrow5698]

I didn't enjoy it, or Whitby, but loved York. Perhaps I was there on a bad day, but there's really nothing much to say other than it's a dying town full of tat shops. There's zero culture - that's the problem - it doesn't feel like a living breathing town. There's no money in it - by money, I don't mean bling or rich people, but work and industry and art, vibrance. The soul has been sucked out of it due to decades of neglect, the death of industries, austerity - all sorts. I felt the same in Whitby - I could see how the town could've been, in decades past, but was struck by the desperate poverty. Not so much a poverty of money - although there's that too - but a poverty of experiences. There's nothing to do. There's no hustle and bustle of a vibrant living community. Towns full of people unemployed, at a low ebb, with no future to look forward to. There's no love for these places, litter everywhere (in season), boarded up shops and the shops that remain sell tat, or are charity shops or cheap arcades. When I say "nothing to do", I don't mean things like fairgrounds or whatever - but those are cool too. I mean markets, interesting shops, fishing boats, local people about their work, local food and a love of making that food. Local artists, a feeling of pride in the place - vibrance, authentic culture. It's all gone. These are towns missing their soul and it's so sad to see that. Contrast these places with the aforementioned York and you'll get a sense of what it could be like, with some injection of work, of money, of pride. A restoration of the town by making it somehow profitable, worth living in - get some culture back in. These are dead towns, like so many across the UK - limping along. It's the sign of austerity, of government cuts, lack of work and lack of pride. Industries gone, families destitute, tourism mostly now just for old people, perhaps seeking the magic they once experienced in these places. Perhaps it'll never come back. Perhaps when tourism hit places like Scarborough one hundred years ago, it turned a sleepy lovely fishing town full of industry into a town of day trippers. Thrill seekers - dip your toes in the sea, go on some rides. Maybe at that point, the tide turned and it started a slow decline into the relic it now is.

[@thekiltedcyclist4698]

Phew, you certainly let fly on this one, sadly you are correct on almost every point. Almost every place i have visited is similar, with the exception of historic Cities, York, Edinburgh,Glasgow and Inverness to name a few.But it is what you make it, at the end of the day. I love the architecture of places and enjoy places for what they were, in their pomp. Thanks for your comment, cheers g.

[@joe2grand]

any translations ? what language is this ?

[@thekiltedcyclist4698]

SCOTS

[@jaomwtoptd]

I don't know? I can't hear him over the loud background music

[@killerk3925]

I used to run these streets

[@thekiltedcyclist4698]

Some steep slopes in Scarborough lol

[@killerk3925]

@@thekiltedcyclist4698 I am now doing 25 years in HMP hull

[@killerk3925]

@@thekiltedcyclist4698 a younger more violent crew took over!