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Everyone thinks the classic British seaside holiday started somewhere down south.
It actually started here.
Scarborough became Britain's first seaside resort back in 1626, after mineral springs were discovered on the beach and people started flocking here to "take the waters."
The story goes that a local woman, Thomasin Farrer, stumbled across a spring at the foot of the cliffs, its water staining the rocks a strange reddish colour.
She tried it, found it eased her ailments and word spread fast.
By 1660, a local doctor had published a whole book on the water's supposed healing powers and Scarborough's reputation as a health resort was cemented, decades before anywhere else worked out that the coast could be a destination, not just somewhere fishermen worked.