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Under attack!

65 Gordon Street. Image courtesy of Great Northern Publishing

On the 16th December 1914, the First World War came to the North Yorkshire coast. The German Imperial Navy sailed up the East Coast and launched a naval bombardment of Scarborough and Whitby. It left homes in ruins and people mourning their dead.

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