You are here:
Hunmanby Gap
Hunmanby Gap maps
Historic maps of Hunmanby Gap and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Hunmanby Gap maps
Hunmanby Gap photos
We have no photos of Hunmanby Gap, although we do have photos of these nearby places:
Reighton| Hunmanby| Filey| Burton Fleming| Gristhorpe| Bempton| Cayton Bay| Rudston| Boynton Hall| Sewerby| Bridlington
Hunmanby Gap area books
Displaying 1 of 28 books about Hunmanby Gap and the local area. View all books for this area
You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Hunmanby Gap
No memories of Hunmanby Gap have been shared yet - be the first!
Add your memory of Hunmanby Gap
or of a photo of Hunmanby Gap.
North Yorkshire memories
Memories of The Close, Primrose Valley
My father built a caravan just after the war, we took it to Primrose Valley in 1946 and sited it in The Close after negotiating the rent with Mr Smart who was the manager, also the same family as the shop owner. I am sure it was the first new caravan on the site after the war. As a young boy I had my early morning wash at the tap in the middle of The Close. We used the Smart's shop and the small amusement arcade. The swimming pool was not in use in the early years. There were no caravans on the cliff tops. What memories!
Reighton. Sea View Store.
I lived at Reighton Gap from early 1948 to 1951. The picture of the shop brings back many memories as I worked in it aged 11 during the summer school holidays.
My jobs were to handle the dirty jobs, handling of potatoes, paraffin, and fetch the soft drinks from the back of the store. It was a very busy cafe in summer so I had to also wash up and dry the dishes, my reward was 2 meals a day and 7/6 per week pay, I worked 7 days a week 6 am to 9 pm. The 7/6 helped my mother pay half of the weekly rent to live in a bus called "Linga Longa", no water, no fire, just a bus shell, it was a hard life. The 2 meals a day were a blessing as we often had no food. The store was only open from 11am to 1pm in winter during the week. Groceries had to be brought from Filey via walking along the sands in both... Read more
Local Shop
My grandparents (Alan and Doris Hartley) used to have a bungalow on Boat Cliffe Road, this shop was at the bottom of the road. We used to go to Reighton Gap every school holiday and had some fantastic times there. I think I recall a couple of ladies owning the shop and they had a black and white sheepdog called Meg. It is great to see the photo of the shop and some old photos of the bungalows and surrounding area. Unfortunately the bungalows and shop are no longer there but the memories still remain.
Best Regards, Richard Hartley.
Speeton Cliffs With Cafe in Foreground
The road down to the shore was built for gravel extraction with the washing plant on the level ground just below where this shot was taken from.
The building shown was a cafe. On the other side of the road there was a small hut with lifesaving equipment, blankets and telephone erected by parents of a boy who died in the sea there. It was destroyed by vandals. I remember the gravel being taken by Toulsons of Doncaster in lorries with a specially low first gear to get up the steep slope. The broken remnants of the WW2 pillbox are visible where the road bends, having already slipped down the cliff some yards.
Holidays in 'Sunny Dawn'
My family used to rent a bungalow just off Boat Cliffe Road called 'Sunny Dawn'. It had a big verandah all around it and flies used to stick to the windows after it had rained! We always went to Reighton for holidays and my brother always went to the Sea View Stores to buy his Marvel comics. The shop was owned by two very distinctive ladies! I still go to Reighton and own my own caravan now - things have changed drastically - not always for the better but we still enjoy the lovely coastline and scenery. A wonderful place.
Reighton Gap. Speeton Cliffs.
Re this photograph, I recall the scene in 1948 when I lived there. Everything was still wrapped in barbed wire as there were many mines in the area The life saving hut was restored about 1950 and was very smart with the St Johns Ambulance logo on the side. The part that intrigued me the most was the brass bell used for raising the alarm for a swimmer in trouble, which was from the ship HMS Indefatigable. I tried in recent years to find which ship it came from as there was more than one ship with that name, but with no success. I wonder who souvenired it from the old hut. Frank Archer.
Memories at The Crows Nest Bungalow
During the mid 1960s I spent many a happy childhood holiday staying at the Crows Nest Bungalow at Reighton Gap. This bungalow was sited near the cliff edge, by the gorge overlooking the distant caravan site. (One of the farthest bugalows pictured in the view towards Filey).
Each year we would notice that part of the garden had disappeared due to cliff erosion. Gradually, by the 3rd year, the garage had completely gone.
I remember as I lay in bed, wondering if we would all disappear over the cliff during the night.
On a recent visit I got to the end of that bumpy road & was sad to see that virtually the whole village had been taken over by a caravan site. Must all good things come to an end ?
