LOCATION 5
Wrecks Below the Grand Hotel 1881
Robert Ernest Roe 1852-1921
Additional Information
To the right is the
Scarborough Lifeboat Station. The
boathouse was built in 1940. The
painting depicts shipwrecks and these tragedies eventually led to the
development of a lifeboat service. The
station was moved to the harbour area in 1821.
From 1801 to 1984 there were 567 launches of the Scarborough Lifeboat
and 441 lives were saved. A total of 16
lifeboatmen were lost during this period.
Admire, in the words of Sir
Nikolaus Pevsner, ‘the wondrous Grand Hotel, a High Victorian gesture of
assertion and confidence, of denial of frivolity and insistence on substance
than which none more telling can be found in the land’. Architect: Cuthbert Brodrick. Completed in 1867, it was one of the first
purpose-built hotels and a landmark in hotel construction.
The West Pier was begun in
1817 and completed in 1822, William Chapman was the engineer. At the landward end of the pier are
impressive Victorian buildings in red brick, housing the fish salesmen and
Harbour Offices. The architects were
Hall and Tugwell (1886).
Directions to Location 6
Continue along Foreshore Road to
the Spa. Walk along the front of the Spa
complex until you reach the glazed screens to the Sun Court. The lectern is to the south of the oval
bandstand.
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