Scarborough's Seawall Heritage project is being officially opened today.
This project was awarded £40,000 by the National Lottery Heritage Fund at the start of 2022. The money has been used to tell the story of Scarborough’s history and heritage using etched granite Storyboards installed on the sea wall along Scarborough’s Marine Drive.
The idea for the project came from the Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre and they are the lead organisation for the project as part of a Partnership with the Archaeological and Historical Society and the Scarborough & District Civic Society. Permission to use the sea wall was given by the Scarborough Borough Council.
Project manager, Huw Roberts, a Trustee of the Maritime Heritage Centre said
“Scarborough possibly has the most colourful and varied history of any British town of comparable size, but its heritage is not widely known, especially by the vast majority of the town’s visitors. Whatever was happening in history, ancient or modern, Scarborough has been up there making the news. We wanted to tell that story.”
The National Lottery Heritage Fund’s priority objective is to see more people engaging in heritage and, when a dialogue was started with them in 2019 they were interested in a project which would showcase Scarborough’s heritage to hundreds of thousands of people walking the Marine Drive each year.
COVID hit just as the public consultation was about to start and another way was needed to engage. Huw Roberts said:
“We went online to ask the people of Scarborough to help us to design the project and they responded wonderfully. We also asked local schools to engage with us on the design of the project and the help given by four of these (Gladstone Road and Friarage primary schools, Scalby School and the 6th Form College) will forever be, literally, etched into the end product.”
The project is thought to be unique and it is the Partnership’s hope that it will attract more visitors and help the town’s economy to recover after the pandemic.
Neither is the project finished yet. The next big step is to gather ‘Scarborough Memories’, stories from Scarborough’s past, perhaps passed down the generations in local families. The project want to reach out to local schools again for their help in achieving this.
The Sea Wall phase of the project is due to be opened by Sir Alan Ayckbourn at 1:30pm today (December 6th)
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