Some more pix from German naval raid onScarborough 1914

[24463988]

Hello again.

Pushing my luck and wondering if anyone can identify either of these two locations in Scarborough?

Many thanks,

Mark

[Kitty VAD]

if I recall, the pic on the right shows somewhere down near Holbeck road. that Crenellation is a feature of the houses down there. I am Google mapping!

[Lancashire Fusilier]

Mark,

You may have these lists of those killed and the property damaged during the WW1 Scarborough raid ?, however just in case you do not, I shall post them for you.

Regards,

LF

" For the people of England the bombardment of Scarborough was the first direct taste of the greatest war of all time. Few direct reports had come back from France yet at the horrors of trench warfare. The papers were still full of naive nationalism. The war was expected to be over by Christmas. Perhaps in a small way Scarborough did have a real taste of this war. According to a legend a parrot kept at the Sandside mission for seamen talked vigorously until the day of the bombardment. It never spoke again. Perhaps this parrot was Scarboroughs first victim of shellshock. "

A List of those killed in the raid :

-Leonard Ellis, back of Londsborough road.

-Harry Frith (45),1 Bedford Street.

-Alfred Beal(41) 50 Raleigh Street.

-Margaret Briggs (29) Filey Road.

-John Shields Ryalls (14 Months) 22 Westborne Park.

-Miss Bertha McIntyre (42) 22 Westbourne Park.

-Mrs Johanna Bennett (58) 22 Westbourne Park.

-Albert Bennett (22) 2 Wykeham street.

-John Christopher H Ward (9) 2 Wykeham Street.

-George James Barnes (9) 2 Wykeham Street.

-John Hall(65) 28 Westbourne Park.

-Mrs Emily Lois Merryweather(30) 43 Prospect Road.

-George Harland Taylor (15) 45 North Street.

-Mrs Mary Prew(60) 17a Belle Vue Street.

-Mrs Ada Crow(28) 124 Falsgrave Road.

-Miss edith Crosby (39) 1 Belvedere Road.

-Mrs Duffield(38) Esplanade.

A List of various streets damaged(from Scarborough Pictorial 23rd December 1914)

- St Nicholas Cliff. Four buildings hit including the Grand hotel.

- St Thomas Walk. 1 house hit.

- Castle Road. 6 houses hit.

- Queen street. The wesleyan Chapel hit.

- St Nicholas St. Several buildings including the Royal Hotel and Marshal and Snelgrove

- Westborough. 4 buildings damaged.

- King Street. The holiday camp and Health offices.

- Harley Street. 1 house damaged.

- Albermarle Crescent. Slight damage by 1 shell.

- Falsgrave Road 13 houses suffered mostly window damage.

- York Place. 13 of the 21 houses had their windows shattered.

- West square. 2 houses damaged and 7 had windows shattered.

- The Crescent. 2 houses damaged and several had window shattered.

- Belvoir Terrace. 1 house hit and others suffered broken windows.

- Londsborough Road. 1 house badly damaged.

- Bedford Street. 1 house practically destroyed.

- Wrea St. 1 house had roof damaged.

- Hanover Road. Waverley Hotel and the confectioners suffered window damage.

- Victoria Road. Lots of damage to windows.

- North Marine road. 2 Houses damaged.

- South Foreshore. The Neptune House was it. The Grand Restaurant was badly damaged. The Grand Picture House and the Olympia picture house were both damaged. The Confectioners was also hit.

- Dean Road. The Workhouse was hit by a shell.

- Rutland Terrace. 1 house hit.

- Elders Street. 1 house hit.

- Somerset Terrace. 1 house roof damaged.

- North Street. 2 houses hit by shells.

- Mayville Avenue. 2 houses hit one was reduced to ruins.

- Roscoe Street The Cab Proprietor had a horse killed.

- Wykeham Street 1 house reduced to rubble with three people killed. Four other houses had windows shattered.

- St Johns road. 1 house badly hit.

- St Johns Avenue. 2 houses damaged.

- Commercial Street. 3 houses damaged.

- Stepney Avenue. 5 houses damaged. 3 others windows shattered

- Stepney Road. 5 houses damaged including Dr E Hollings of Willow Dene and Captain John Hirst of Mrytle Bank.

- Alexandra Park a newly constructed house badly damaged.

- Oxford St 1 house damaged.

- Tindall Street 17 houses suffered window damage.

- Sherwood Street. Damage to Mrs Morlands warehouse and showroom. Practically every house in the street suffered from the bombardment.

- Goods Station. Damage to a house,signal box and Goods yard.

- Electric Light Works. Minor damage.

- Park Avenue. 1 house damaged.

- Prospect Road. Shell went through Mr Merryweathers shoip. Houses nearby were damaged. Corn Merchant had house and shop damaged. Several others had damage especially windows damage.

- Spring Bank. No 1 had its front completely blown away.

- Filey Road. A number of houses were hit.

- Esplanade. Councilor Whites boarding house was hit. 2 Other houses were damaged. 1 other suffered window damage.

- Albion Road. Albert House was damaged. There was terrible damage to Montpellier boarding house. The Chemist was damaged. Leonard Ellis died here. The house next door was damaged too.

[24463988]

if I recall, the pic on the right shows somewhere down near Holbeck road. that Crenellation is a feature of the houses down there. I am Google mapping!

Thanks in advance for any information you can provide... MB

[24463988]

I found an alternative print in our archive showing an address for the large house as being in Lonsdale Road. Google street view confirms this as the house - No 14 - confirms this as it is largely unaltered with the repairs obvious. I have no found a complete set of negs Ulrich v Bogaerde took in Whitby, Hartlepool and Scarborough amounting to 16 frames which I can scan as soon as I get a window. These were taken on the 17th-20th of December. He wrote detailed captions so there will be no problem with them. I am enthused. Many thanks to all for your support. We are now packing the collection for yet another move - so there will be more delays with this project.