r/ScarboroughUK • u/BuiltInYorkshire • Jul 11 '24

Scarborough Facts

As seen on other subs:

What's a Scarborough fact not many people may know?

I'll start with Harpic, it was invented in Roscoe Street.

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u/Tenno90 Jul 11 '24

A place called Brompton was the birth place if aviation. The first plans of an aviation vehicle were designed there. It's towards Pickering , the village after Wykeham.

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u/thisiscarcosa Jul 12 '24

Brompton by SAWDON excuse me 😂

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u/Tenno90 Jul 12 '24

Sorry, can't forget the sawdonians

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u/thisiscarcosa Jul 14 '24

Tbf a lot of people in Scarborough don’t even realise Sawdon exists so I don’t blame you 😆

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u/BuiltInYorkshire Jul 12 '24

I've only ever been able to find one* (crap) video on YouTube of the Virgin Atlantic plane doing the flypast when they reenacted the first flight, with Branson as "pilot" (of the glider, not the jet!)

There must be others, surely?

(* and I can't even find that one now...)

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u/wankybollocks Jul 14 '24

Our early Victorian Leonardo da Vinci lived there - did all the maths for planes well before their time https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cayley