27/08/2026
Love this amazing picture of Scarborough Cricket Club and its beautiful backdrop.
Scarborough Cricket Club, with the castle and headland providing a fairly ridiculous backdrop.
Scarborough Cricket Club was founded in 1849, with some of its early matches actually played up on Castle Hill. It moved to North Marine Road in 1863, and the ground has since become one of Yorkshire cricket's most distinctive outgrounds. At its post-war peak, crowds topped 20,000 - the record was 22,946 for Yorkshire against Derbyshire in 1947.
More than 160 years later, Yorkshire still play first-class cricket here and the Scarborough Festival remains part of the calendar. And from above you get the whole setting in one shot - cricket ground, tightly packed streets, North Bay and Scarborough Castle sitting on the headland beyond.