History of Scarborough

lemen's club the British Tunny Club was founded in 1933 and set up its headquarters in the town at the place which is now a restaurant with the same name. Scarborough became a resort for high society. A women's world tuna challenge cup was held for many years. Colonel (and, later, Sir) Edward Peel landed a world-record tunny of 798 pounds (362.0 kg), capturing the record by 40 pounds (18.1 kg) from one caught off Nova Scotia by American champion Zane Grey.  The British record which still stands is for a fish weighing 851 pounds (386.0 kg) caught off Scarborough in 1933 by Laurie Mitchell-Henry.

Modern Scarborough

On 5 June 1993 Scarborough made headlines around the world when a landslip caused part of the Holbeck Hall Hotel, along with its gardens, to fall into the sea. Although the slip was shored up with rocks and the land has long since grassed over, evidence of the cliff's collapse remains clearly visible from The Esplanade, near Shuttleworth Gardens.

Scarborough is one of Yorkshire's 'renaissance towns', having been granted government support for securing a vibrant future. As a result there are many building projects to renovate classic Victorian buildings and quality contemporary architecture.

The town has a fine Anglican church, St. Martin-on-the-Hill. It was built in 1862–63 as the parish church of South Cliff and contains works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Ford Madox Brown. The church remains very active and thriving