"Scarborough Castle" Topic
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| Warspite1 | 14 Oct 2020 3:59 a.m. PST |
Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, Viking and Norman… link Shot to pieces in the English Civil War and bombarded by the German Imperial High Seas Fleet in 1914. |
| Cerdic | 14 Oct 2020 11:14 a.m. PST |
Nice set of photos! The headland can be a bit bleak. When we went it was blowin' a gale and shotting it down… |
| Warspite1 | 14 Oct 2020 2:38 p.m. PST |
@Cerdic:
Just a few days later we drove back via Flamborough Head in 65mph winds, three or four metre high waves and lashings of rain and hail.
For the experience we stopped at the cafe out on Flamborough Head which was taking the full force. We had to park BEHIND the cafe before we could open the car's doors. While we were inside the cafe we saw a man blown over while he was trying to take a photograph. Barry |
Shagnasty  | 14 Oct 2020 5:09 p.m. PST |
Another example of the destructive streak in the new Model Army. They "slighted" many of the castle we view on our trip in '85. |
| KeepYourPowderDry | 15 Oct 2020 7:42 a.m. PST |
But Scarborough Castle wasn't slighted. It was already in a state of disrepair before the Civil Wars, then suffered extensive damage during the siege. It was ordered to be slighted but was reprieved. The German navy bombarded the Castle in WW1 causing considerable damage. |
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