HFF: East Yorkshire Scarborough and District 748 (DUP 748S) in Scarborough – 19 Aug 1987 (54-28)

Wednesday 19 August 1987 – In September 1986 when under National Bus Company ownership the southern part of the United Automobile Services operating area along with the garages at Scarborough and Pickering were transferred to East Yorkshire Motor Services which created a new subsidiary named Scarborough and District.

Now Scarborough and District 748 (DUP 748S), this Eastern Coachworks bodied Bristol VR had been new to United in May 1978. It was seen in Peasholm Gap, Scarborough close to the famous Corner Café at the North Bay.

The advertisement on the bus is for the now demolished yet once famous Futurist Theatre where many well-known entertainers starred in summer shows. The Grumbleweeds and Jimmy Cricket were starring this particular summer.

In the background is one of the five funicular tramways which operated in Scarborough to connect the higher parts of the town with the seafront. Only two of those still exist but the one here closed in 1996 and was subsequently dismantled.

A trademark feature of much of Scarborough’s gardens and landscape is the fencing made of slender tree trunks in abundance around this part of the North Bay through to Peasholm Park and Northstead Manor Gardens.