It's 30 years since Scarborough's Holbeck Hall Hotel fell into the sea following a dramatic landlsip which started overnight on the 3rd/4th June and came to a conclusion on 5th June.
Paul Atterbury was staying in the hotel with his family on the night of the landslip and has been sharing his story with Paddy @ Breakfast.
He says the first signs of a landslip occured a week before the disaster:
On the night of the 3rd / 4th June the main landlsip occured, with around a million tonnes of earth displaced, slipping 100 metres out over the beach and existing sea defences.
Paul was staying in a room on the seaward side of the hotel and told Paddy he learned his room was a lot closer to the cliff edge when staff phoned the room:
His family settled their bill on a makeshift reception desk in the car park, before they checked in at the nearby Crown Hotel:
Paul said he'd been playing football in the large garden the day before the landlsip and they'd noticed something strange:
Paul took this image of the garden the day before the landslip
And he took this on the morning they were evacuated from the hotel
Today, the landslip has been landscaped with thousands of rocks of Norwegian Granite, the same stone later used to protect Marine Drive in Scarborough.
Paddy's Mystery Sound caller Linda also shared her memories of the event:
Sue had a chalet on the beach nearby and saw it all unfold:
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