Why a Booktrail?
Destination: Scarborough Destination Time: WW1
War comes to a small town in Yorkshire in the early 20th century
Bombshell
What you need to know before your trail
Rosie Kirby reads about a young dad who has died at Ypres and so never gets to meet his baby son. It’s a text book story of the first world war but also a personal story from Rosie’s family. When she inherits an old box of even older papers and items after a funeral she starts to read through them and discovers that all is not quite what it seems
Clara Thorton, her great-great-grandmother has seemingly left her a trail of clues about her past and that of her family. Soon she is delving into the world that Clara knew well and it turns out to be a world of wonders and stranger things still. But it’s also a world of tragedy and the story of a town torn apart by war and its aftermath.
Travel Guide
Scarborough 1914
A small town in Yorkshire in the early 20th century when it was a seaside town known for its seaside picture houses, funicular ride up and down the cliff face, view of the pier below and a nice sense of community.
Clara Thorton is employed at Scarborough’s Grand Hotel when war breaks out. In August 1914, this nice sedate seaside town had just celebrated its most successful Bank Holiday for years. It was full of holiday makers who had arrive by steam train, but the cloud of war lingered above.
Rosie’s quest to find the truth unlocks Clara’s world – a world full of underground palaces, seaside picture houses, funicular cliff railways and charabanc rides – but also a world full of tragedies far worse and far more complex than she could ever have imagined.
This is the story of Scarborough before it acquired any of its scars. When life was care free
Streetview Maps
A) Scarborough Grand Hotel
D ) Scarborough Castle
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