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St. Johns Road, SCARBOROUGH, YO12 5ET

The photograph, which was taken from near its junction with Image¹, is looking south south-easterly along St John’s Road¹ toward Falsgrave Road¹. The hill in the distance is called Oliver’s Mount http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2239258 . The two structures on the hill are a communications transmitter (left) and the town's war memorial (right). The junction on the right, ahead is with Image¹. For a more south south-easterly (ahead) photograph of St John's Road but looking back, toward this viewpoint, click here Image For a more north north-westerly (behind the viewpoint) photograph of St John’s Road, click here Image ¹ Road name information from OS Maps at:- Elgin, http://www.elgin.gov.uk/

The photograph, which was taken from near its Image (just behind the viewpoint), is looking north north-westerly along St John’s Road. The railings on the right are the boundary with Image For a more north north-westerly (ahead) photograph of St John's, click here Image Road name information from OS Maps.

This detached house of about 1860 was originally called the Red House.Lady Louisa Sitwell, who from 1870 lived at Wood End in The Crescent, was well known for her church and charitable work including the "Home of Hope", for destitute or fallen girls which was located in this house. It was called Tynedale by 1928 and by then the large grounds had been lost to houses in Sitwell Street and a laundry. It is now flats.

This is the porch to the house shown in Image It has seen better days but is still a nice feature.

St John's road is a late 19th century street largely of 'byelaw' houses though there are commercial uses. The building nearest the camera is a laundry. The pair of houses with the white rendered upper part and the gable were damaged by during the German bombardment of Scarborough on December 16th 1914 and carry a plaque similar to Image

The photograph, which was taken from Image near its Image (a few metres to the right). The white building on the right is situated on Rosevale Terrace and the houses beyond on Commercial Street.

Off the western (left) end of Image and opposite the junction with Image, the photograph is looking south-easterly along Commercial Street toward Falsgrave. The lone tree is near the site of damage caused during the Second World War when, on 18th March 1941, Commercial Street was struck by a parachute mine, killing seven and injuring many others (Scarborough in the 1930s and ’40s by Richard James Percy – ISBN 0 860767 134 8). http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Military/TheScarboroughWarYears.pdf (Use your browser to search several times for: Commercial Street) http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/84/a3855684.shtml (Use your browser to search twice for: Commercial Street) http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Indexes/NE_WarDead/CWD_W-Y.html#W (Use your browser to search for: Willis, Sylvia & Waller, Joan) http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Indexes/NE_WarDead/CWD_H-I.html (Use your browser to search for: Hodgson, Elizabeth & Hall, Alan & Hall, Lavinia & Hall, Sheila & Heseltine, Mary Jane) In the 1950's the building on the left-hand edge of the photograph used to be a corner shop. To see another photograph of Commercial Street, taken from its other end at its junction with Falsgrave Road, click here Image Road name information from OS Maps at:- Elgin, http://www.elgin.gov.uk/

The photograph, which was taken from its junction with Image (immediate foreground), is looking south south-easterly along St John’s Road toward Falsgrave. The hill in the distance is called Oliver’s Mount http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2239258 . The two structures on the hill are a communications transmitter (left) and the town's war memorial (right). In the 1950’s (and well into the 80’s) the white building (ahead, on the corner of St John’s Road and Image) used to be it to be the archetypical British corner shop. In addition the building on the near right was a corner shop as was the one on the left (out of shot). For a more south south-easterly (ahead) photograph of St John’s Road, click here Image Road name information from OS Maps at:- Elgin, http://www.elgin.gov.uk/

Commercial Street is a 19th century street of largely 'bye-law' housing though there are commercial uses. In 1941, about 15 terrace houses were damaged by a heavy bomb and had to be demolished. In the 1950s Tarren type prefabricated bungalows were put up to replace them, three of which still exist. Recently some of the prefabs have been replaced by the brick built residences behind the white van and one has been removed to create a pedestrian access to the Sainsbury's superstore. 79 Commercial Street, which was one of those demolished after 1941, had also been damaged during the German bombardment of Scarborough on December 16th 1914 but had been renovated at that time.

When Falsgrave was a separate township from Scarborough, it was policed by the North Riding Constabulary rather than the Municipal police force. The buildings are now houses ,but they were built in 1882 as a police station and ploice houses to designs by Walter Stead. There is a large yard behind accessed between the two blocks