Oliver’s Mount Scarborough Walk Round Views by Bempton Chris & Anne

My good Youtube friends Chris and Anne from Bempton Bridlington were out and about recently up at Oliver’s Mount, Scarborough. This is the video record of their trip. Many thanks for this Chris and Anne for this combined effort!

Oliver’s Mount is an area of high ground overlooking Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.
Oliver’s Mount is named after Oliver Cromwell, as it was thought that he had sited guns there, during the Civil War 1643. This name was commonly in use by 1804.

Oliver’s Mount is probably best known for its motorcycle races. The first race was held in 1946, and the hill continues to hold motorcycle circuit racing up to the present day. The circuit itself is 2.43 miles (3.91 km) in length and is not much more than a service road around Oliver’s Mount. It is known as a technical and twisty track that requires a great deal of skill and bravery to tackle.
Car rally and car hill-climb events are also held occasionally.
In 2016 Oliver’s Mount was the summit for the final classified climb on the third stage of the Tour de Yorkshire cycle race.

Scarborough’s War Memorial – Oliver’s Mount
‘They were a wall unto us by night and by day’…
This striking war memorial commemorates all the 700 -800, local men and women of Scarborough, who had died whilst on active service in the Great War ( 1914-1918 )
The majority of the men lost their lives in some of the largest and most dreadful battles the world had ever seen, Ypres, Loos, Jutland, the Somme, Arras, Passchendeale, to name but a few. Information about many of the men has been lost but details and information around 300 of those who died can be found below at the –
Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre Website
https://www.scarboroughsmaritimeheritage.org.uk/article.php?article=531
This list was complied by Paul Allen in 2008.

Well good morning Tom it’s the 13th of February and it’s Tuesday morning and an and I have come up to scabra today and we’ve come uh to visit Oliver’s Mount uh which of course as you probably know is very very famous for the motorbike racing here

Um and uh I will uh do a a bit of video as we’re leaving here uh because you actually drive down the circuit itself um and of course motorite Racing’s been uh going on here since I think about 1946 but I do believe at the moment the the circuit itself is

Closed uh because of um land slip we’ve come in uh a different way today um but uh it’s been closed I do believe for about four years and the cost of the uh of the repair as it were um will be quite substantial so I think the

Counciling scabra are a little bit uh in a bit of a dilemma of what to do because when the motorbike seasons on it does generate up to to £4 million for the scabber economy local economy but um anyway I’ll film a bit of that as we’re leaving but what we’ve

Come to see today is the war memorial and some spectacular views of the South Bay so I’m just going to go to this little notice board here all right scabra arm for’s day scar br is very proud of its long association with the armed forces and then

Just found another one down here it’s not a very uh brilliant day today but it’s um I think we’ve got the pick of the week really it’s going to R rain again this afternoon it’s not particularly warm it’s going to be warmer tomorrow um but uh nevertheless it’s not

Raining at the moment it’s going to rain this afternoon so here is the other notice board that’s very interesting this remembering scabra 16th of December 1914 out so as many many of the Holy re just have been laid over time well this is the war memorial Tom this

Is just a long shot of it um I’m going to go obviously I’m going to go up the steps and take a closer look but um Oliver’s Mount his uh uh so called uh because it’s believed that Oliver Cromwell during the Civil War cited his cannons here uh to fire on scabra castle

And into scabra but there’s no hard evidence that crumble was actually here himself so we don’t know that that is completely true but still has got the name Oliver’s Mount nevertheless so I’m going to just go a bit closer and have a look at the uh the plaques on the memorial

This is uh one side of the memorial Tom uh this and L they passed over and all the trumpets sounded for them on the other side so this is the Royal uh Navy Army and Air Force in so I have walk around the other side and see what we have there

They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old age shall not weary them nor the years come them at the going down of the Sun and in the morning we will remember them so more names here is for this last one here is um civilians Bomb b bombardments from 1914

1917 men women and children that lost their lives and there’s been additions added to the bottom of the memorial here so I’ll have a look around either the the side so this is in memorium of people of scabra who gave their lives in the second world war 1939 to

1945 greater love hath no man Than This truly is magnificent and more names here I hope the camera’s picking them out okay because I don’t know whether these uh these inscriptions are on bronze or what I have no idea but the merchant nav’s mentioned and there’s also one for Northern irand and Korea

This side of the memorial is um in grateful memory of the men of scabra who gave their lives for king and country in the Great Wall 1914 1916 they were a wall unto us both by night and by day so this is the last the last side of the

Memorial dedicated to first world war victims so this is the view from the memorial Tom looking over towards scabra this is the South Bay um and we’ll pick up the castle shortly so it’s a shame it’s not a bit brighter but so there we have the castle where Mr Cromwell and these cannons

How’s it go so here we are overlooking the South Bay Tom I’ve got the tripod out this is the first time I’ve used the tripod um so this is the castle you can actually go up there to see it um which I’ll I’ll I’ll do a video about

The castle probably during the summer time when the weather’s decent so this is L voling scabra from the War Memorial oh there is a little cafe here that uh is open today so we’re going to be popping in for a coffee and a little stop probably

There is a ship out there but I don’t think I can pick it up so there we go so one last look at the castle and I’m I’m just going to take another shot of the memorial from a distance okay Tom well uh that concludes our visit to the skyra mu museum

Memorial uh at Oliver’s Mount um just thought had to get a last a last look at the memorial from a district and as I say we’ll I’ll I’ll an driveing the car so I’ll get some shots of going down the the actual uh motorcycle race trck okay bye for

Now okay Tom well this is a bit where uh we’re heading off back home now we we’re just going to this is the actual motorcycle track we’re going to find our way back to the way we came so they’ all come around here the part that shut off is off the

Main a165 Road from brington to scabra that’s the part that’s shut off for land lands slip problems so uh we obviously can’t go that way out cuz it’s shut but uh there’s been some very famous names have raced here over the years such as Barry Shane and uh many many

More so there’s some hairy bends so just a shot out of the side window just show you how much of a drop there is down down to the bottom there is quite a lot of footage on uh on YouTube about Oliver Mount motorbike racing as I say I think it started in

1946 going on a real air pin band now yeah yeah you’re okay on towards the mayor yeah so we’re uh and as just said we’re just going down towards the mirr which is to our right we’ve just had a very nice uh turkey and bacon sandwich and and’s had some poached eggs

In the little cafe which was very pleasant and a nice cup of coffee so that’s the view to the right hand side so as you can see it’s quite a race track it’s as far as I’m aware it’s the only one um in the UK that uh to go that is an actual

Roadway I know where we are it’s the road we came on by that’s right yeah yeah um yeah by roadway of course a main uh public roadway so it’s to be up that they can get the landslope problem resolved and uh get the racing back okay left down this is where we

Turned off get the L on the came back up this road so the miria is now to our left scarra miria where they used to have a a pirate ship called the Hispanola but that now sails on the sea travel to the island in the middle and need to up for the bloom

That’s right so there we are that’s the end of the track and the uh end of our visit to Oliver’s Mount okay bye for now