Thank you,a wonderful post xx

I grew up in Yorkshire and knew Scarborough well - lovely to see how it was then. Notice the cerulean blue skies without the covert geoengineering stripes and constant haze dimming the sun going on today

Really enjoyable. However it's terrifying for me in that the time that passed between the filming and my first visit to Scarborough (24ish years) is much less than the elapsed time between today and my last visit there (30+ years)!

People just like us enjoying themselves, probably during the bank holiday weekend in late August, not knowing what's about to hit them just days later. Who knows if something similar might hit us shortly.

Scarborough look so busy in the old days they spent so much time out doors l wasn't born in this year and my dad wasn't he born 1934 l were born in the 60s

Amazing footage !

I was at Newlands School then -- although I cannot remember the year I went. Mr Chittenden was Head. And then it was evacuated to Wales -- or have I got it muddled up. If so, not surprising as I am 93!! It was a great school

Amazing footage.

A few weeks/days before the outbreak of war, everyone seems remarkably relaxed!!

Hello, Mark. My 11 yrs old daughter is making her own MV just for fun. She is singing Scarborough Fair. I am wondering if she could use this video as her video background? Thank you very much！

Lovely Scarborough. Thank you.

Great footage! When I turned up in 1979 it still had a Post War 1950's feel to the place ,the surroundings and several of the staff..Mr Bracchi ,Mr Day. I left in 86 ,didn't go on to the Manor for GCSE's which I'm thankful for.. it was time to move on after 7 years! I was sad to hear of the school's demise though a few years back..I think Mr Chittenden would be heartbroken as he set up a charitable trust to keep it going after he was gone. His successor Mr Burston recently died too. I still have 2 friends from Newlands ..we always talk about the place whenever we meet up..the good and the bad. No more prep schools in Seaford now if I'm not mistaken...to think that area along the south coast was full of boarding schools and known as the dormitory when this footage was taken!

Some people today have worse cameras than that, and that was 1939!

A lovely innocent time. How sad they had to face such horrors soon after this.

Wow, seeing what my Mum saw as a 13year old is mind blowing, She is still alive today age 95. Oct '21. Wonderful.

Thank you for sharing ... Great to watch...👍

Shame that outdoor pool isn't there anymore

Yes August and overcoats needed.

The grand probably hasn't been decorated since ,however the Royal Hotel is beautiful...just saying.

Wonderful to find out in the comments who shot the film

Scarborough was once a shining fun town. Now not so much. Shame really. Those people that have sat in the positions of power and steered the decline over several decades should be ashamed. But they won't. They will see it as a job well done.

This is absolutely fantastic. Scarborough is my favorite coast destination.

What a gorgeous,nostalgic film, just taken to record a holiday, but now a walk back in time,love the South side, in all honesty its all about the same,except of course the outdoor pool has gone,apart from the hair styles the Clock cafe looks just the same,thank you so much for sharing this film with us.

Was that swimming pool the now derelict South Bay swimming pool? Looks awesome

Wonderful!

16mm Kodachrome?

Coloured film in 1939? Pfff! Wow! Bet it was expensive!

Used to be brilliant Scarborough. Too much been lost and left to rot, shame.

We happened to be walking past this several years ago and the council were knocking it down and burning all the huts and changing rooms. I had my video camera and taped it. Really sad because we used to swim there in the 1960s.

This is a wonderful piece of filming in such great condition. Really appreciate it. Thank you so much for sharing. I have saved it! 🙋‍♀️

awesome footage, got a little bit "The Ring" like just at the end tho...

beautiful place ruined by successive councillors

I know Scarborough pretty well, but I can't work out where the pool is that is being used for the diving show.

When we knew who was amongst us

I did a vlog on Scarborough last year.

Scarborough Ontario?!?

Go to Scarborough all the time, video shows how little it has actually changed since 1939!! Absolutely love the place.

Just looks the same. My grandma was from Scarborough and her dad was the harbour master in 1939

Please let me go back in time for a day.

Amazing! at 8.02 is a clear picture of the house was born in in Mere View Gardens ! Thanks for posting!

Is the boy in the movie your grandfather?

It still looks exactly the same...

Incredible look at a vanished World. The older generation always tell about wonderful Summers of the past but this indicates it wasn’t very warm on that August day when this was filmed.😁

Grand, thanks.

Fascinating. You feel like you can almost reach out to shake the hands of all these long gone souls.

Kodachrome stock, I presume?

Beautiful footage - thank you for sharing.

I understand Charles Lawton the actor was born in Scarborough and, that his family owned a hotel in that City. Delightful scenes.

This is an astonishingly great video. Scarborough looked as good back then as it does today. Thank you for the upload 👍

Colour movie film was phenomenally expensive in 1939 - probably two or three times the price of black and white, after processing. I think this is 16mm film, which was already very expensive and generally out of the financial reach of most ordinary people. This amateur photographer must have been either wealthy or very committed. From the appearance, this was early Kodachrome, which came out in 1935. Check out some of the colour movies done by Eva Braun. She used Agfa colour film. Not as good as Kodachrome, IMO but good nevertheless.