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Historic maps of Primrose Valley and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Primrose Valley maps
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Filey| Hunmanby| Reighton| Gristhorpe| Burton Fleming| Cayton Bay| Bempton| Sewerby| Scarborough
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Memories of Primrose Valley
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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!
North Yorkshire memories
Any Info?
I dont actually have a past memory of this building. I recently visited Filey and stumbled across this building in one corner of a modern caravan park. The building has just been abandoned and seemed to be empty for a while but had a strong sense of once being a busy place. Does anyone know anything about it?
Primrose Valley Store And Cafe
When this photo was taken my grandfather Horace Smart was running this shop. I was living in the flat above the shop with my parents and brother Ralph. We enjoyed living here and having the whole of the valley to play in, in the winter when only the residents lived here when all the tourists had gone home.
Creamery Cottage
My uncle, aunt and cousin used to live a ramshackle cottage just off Bridlington Street - called Creamery Cottage. Probably to the left of this photo and further back. It had a patch of grass in front, quite close to what was the village institute. It may in fact have been thatched (this is the late 1950s). The story was that it was built on an old graveyard for monks and that bones would sometimes be dug up in the garden. There was a butcher over the road who would kill the pigs early in the morning, with quite bloodcurdling squeals.
My Mum's Side
My Mum's side of the family came from Hunmanby. A place called Stonegate. My Uncle worked at Butlin's I heard and Mum left there just before the war of 1939.
Her parents before her etc lived there too. Postal's Yard, If anybody knows more please contact me via Justanumbernow@aol.com Thanks
Fox's Riding School
I'm from the USA but my mom is from Yorkshire and we spend many happy summers in Filey with my grandparents (every is living here in Southern California now). They had a home near the beach and we would spend the weekends in Filey. I took riding lessons at Fox's. My husband and I took a trip over to the UK in 1998 and stayed in Filey a few nights. We took a drive based on my old memories and we found the Fox's, now just a private home with empty stables and an overgrown riding arena. The owners were very kind and took us inside their home and let us photograph the grounds.
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
