100 years ago

There was a popular fallacy that the climatic conditions on the north-east coast rendered it impossible for any but the hardiest trees and shrubs to succeed, but, said the “Agricultural Economist and Horticultural Review,” one has only to pay a visit to Scarborough to see how mistaken is this idea, the public gardens (more especially those on the cliffs) furnishing a magnificent object lesson as to what can be done in transforming a bare wind-swept cliffside into a delightful garden.

It is on the slopes of the undercliff in both bays that the chief of Scarborough’s pleasure grounds are to be found.

Practically the whole of the slope of the undercliff within the borough is now in the hands of the Municipality, and some 111 acres of it have been developed for the use and enjoyment of the townspeople and the holiday makers.


50 years ago

The previous summer it had been lipsticks that made the newslines — they were very pale and quite unusual.

This summer it was going to be eyes and eyelashes that came in for attention from the beauty experts. One of the big firms who, the previous year, had launched a reasonably priced and very effective range of make-up, didn’t include beauty buys for the eyes.

This year they had put on the market a range of eye make-up that made “eye-appeal” easy. The new false eyelashes you could buy now had a new slant— they were tailored to each eye, with a left and a right eye shaping.

They were very luxuriant, and you may find that you need to trim them down somewhat if you don’t want a “model girl” look. These new eyelashes were made in two thicknesses, triple and double star.

The triple eyelashes (which cost a guinea a set) were really thick and you’d never need to put mascara on them. The double star lashes were good if you wanted to intermingle them with your own, true lashes (they cost 17s 6d a set).


25 years ago

Councillors on the Yorkshire Coast were being pressed to recycle waste to save money and valuable natural resources.

The call had come from the Scarborough Green Party in a letter to councillors. Coordinator Dilys Wood said the party wanted disposal banks setting up in prominent car parks and in shopping areas on the coast.

“We believe the councils have a duty to provide efficient, easily available recycling schemes,” she said.

“The facts and economics way heavily in favour of such policy and there are now commercial schemes in existence to enable recycling to come into effect. Banks for bottles, cans and waste paper should be set to abate the wasteful and devastating trend of the throw-away society.”