| As an actual sea training school, however, it is only fifty years old. Before it was a sea cadet unit, started as a local patriotic gesture during the first world war so that Scarborough boys could receive initial training for the Navy. In this connection Naval Officers gave it a great deal of help and also visited it perodically to inspect the cadets and to offer advice. At this time it was housed in the Tuthill School which was rented from St Thomas's Church. Not until 1918 did it actually become a school controlled by the Scarborough Corporation, when it moved to East Mount, Paradise, a property presented to the town by the then Mayor Mr. C,C, Graham. Previously it had been the home of the Tindalls, a well known local family Mr Graham always took a great interest in the school an interest which has been passed on to his daughter Miss Maisie Graham, who, although now an elderly lady, still actively concerns herself with its life. |
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| During the last war a very great number of Old Boys served at sea and various honours came their way - they were Mentioned in Dispatches and awarded the D.S.M., O.B.E., etc. But alas too many of those names appear also on the list of men who were lost. After the war with the passing of the 1944 Education Act, Scarborough was absorbed educationally into the North Riding of Yorkshire but the school continued to occupy the same premises which were then leased to the North Riding Education Authority at a peppercorn rent. Between two and three hundred years old, the building is now protected as an ancient monument for its architectural interest.Visible signs still remain of its former role as a private house. Traces of an Adam Fireplace, of old bell pulls to servants' quarters, ornamental iron railings and the original front porch, an arched brickwork ceiling and cooling trays in a storage place which, presumably was once a wine cellar, and across the narrow road the former stables and coach-house now converted into workshops. |
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| Fifth year boys practicing knotting and splicing whilst behind another boy is rigging a model sailing boat |
| Compass practice with Mr. David Hayes |
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