Scarborough as a health resort : its physical geography, geology, climate & vital statistics, with a health guide map, &c / [by A. Haviland].

  • Haviland, Alfred, -1903
Date:
1883
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Credit: Scarborough as a health resort : its physical geography, geology, climate & vital statistics, with a health guide map, &c / [by A. Haviland]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Gth.--Tlio half valley of the Southern boundary beck, which has already beeii referred to. ]>cfore leaving this part of the subject it may be not out of place to refer to a disastrous circumstance Avliich occurred on the evening of the 6th of August, 1857, inasmuch as it raked up the history of an old water-course, the former route of Avhich was preserved up to a recent date in the names of thoroughfares, where dams formerly existed to bay back water for mill purposes. On the date named there fell in Scarborough an unprecedented rain-storm, whicli although of short duration, seems to have poured down upon the town in the form of a waterspout, concentrating itself on the elevated ridge, where Albemarle Crescent now stands, and which is indicated on the map by a broad heart shaped isolated contour line marked as a level of 175 feet. At the time this area consisted of fields, near which was a pond; this soon over- floAved and the Avater rushed in torrents into Aberdeen Wallc, across which it made its way and then underneath the archway on the jSTortli Eastern side of this street, whence it flowed lilce a river to North Street along Lotts' and Coulson's yards (now Atlas yard), throngh the Old Brewery yard into the old Avater-coursc, choked up the Gullies in Queen Street near Mrs. Milson's Castle Hotel, thence under the archway, knocked a garden wall down on the premises, drowning and Avashing away a number of her pigs; after this it pursued its destructive course to Cross Street, Avhere it filled up the holloAV there, aftcr- Avards forcing its Avay into the Friarage, Icnocked more Avails doAvn near the Quaker's INIeeting House, filled up the hoUoAV in St. Sepid.chre Street (Avhere the seAver burst), and finally uiade its way to the sea. Such was the course of this destruc- tive torrent, Avhich Avithin a few minutes, on a summer's night, Avas the cause of wide spread dismay, and an immense loss of property. It is probable that the old Avater-course, over the site of Avhicli this sudden flood rushed Avith the impetuosity of a torrent, had a simHar source, to the one which can still be traced from the heights to the North of North Street, Ealsgrave, and Avhich follows the course of Gladstone Eoad to the West of the borough Gaol, Avhere it crosses underneath the Cemetery Eoad, and finally empties itself into the Peas- holm beck, to the South of Scalby Road as it passes the borough boundary.