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Trafalgar Street West, SCARBOROUGH, YO12 7AU

This part of Nelson Street developed in the 1860s and 1870s and it consists of terraces of working class houses built at the back edge of the footway, without forecourts. The building on the corner was a Wesleyan Mission Chapel dating from the 1870s; it is now used for a pre-school play group.

This part of Prospect Road is often called Lower Prospect Road. The tall building with the blanked-out bay window was a Mission Chapel but it is now a chapel of rest for the Undertaker's next door, although it is still marked PW (Place of worship) on some maps. To the left modest houses of the 1860s which have been much modified.

This Civic Society blue plaque commemorates the fact that Edwin (later Sir Edwin) Cooper the Architect was born in a modest house in this street. His full name was Thomas Edwin Cooper. He initially trained in Scarborough but his main practice was in London where he is said to have designed more buildings than Christopher Wren. The Port of London building is probably his most famous.

The architect Sir Edwin Cooper was born in one of these modest houses. There is a blue plaque to him

Part of an area of streets of terraced houses to the west of the town centre.

These houses were built in 1955 by the Scarborough Municipal Charity to replace houses built in 1862. The 1862 houses had been built to replace the medieval Hospital of St Thomas on North Street which had been demolished. There is a bronze plaque detailing these events

Details of a plaque marking the building of the social housing at the junction of Trafalgar Street West and Melrose Street. The 'Genevieve' referred to is Genevieve Lord M.B.E. a Fremman of the Borough of Scarborough and Trustee of the Scarborough Municipal Charity amongst other things.

The hospital of St Thomas was in North Street but this plaque marks replacement buildings in Hoxton Road

This building has a remarkably complex history. It started life in the late 19th century as Foxton’s Mews. Behind this frontage there was a large courtyard surrounded by two storey buildings; some of the stables were at first floor level. W. Foxton & Son operated horse charbancs as well as carriages. E H Robinson who took over altered it to house their motor charabancs – they traded as Scarborough & District, White Coach Tours & Royal Blue Coaches. Between January 1929 and April 1935 Vine Street depot was leased jointly by West Yorkshire Road Car Company & East Yorkshire Motor Services; buses went in at the back and came out through the large central door you can see. They did not renew the lease.The building them became car showrooms and finally auction rooms