A Favourite Place.

Scarborough's South Cliff was originally planned and built for The Gentry.

Mid Victorian architecture, and mid Victorian pleasures, like the Italian Gardens, laid out first by Sir Joseph Paxton (about whom it is apparently compulsory to add 'who designed the original Crystal Palace in Hyde Park for The Great Exhibition of 1851').

By the early 20th Century 'ordinary' people were discovering holidays at the Seaside, and the then Borough Engineer Harry W. Smith developed the Italian Gardens and the rest of the South Cliff Gardens into what we see today.

One of my favourite places to walk, look, listen and think, since I discovered them in early childhood.