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So Palatial a Structure: The Grand Hotel Scarborough and Cuthbert Brodrick

Today’s Secret Library blog is written by John Heywood, author of Beside the Seaside: A History of Yorkshire’s Seaside Resorts. A few weeks ago, John delivered a talk at the Central Library on the same theme. When I was asked to write a brief article to accompany my talk Beside the Seaside at the Central…

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