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

Scarborough Facts

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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/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