THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

Customers at the town’s Harbour Bar are bracing themselves for the day’s first chocolate nut sundae or vanille milk shake float and a waitress is spooning red jelly into a glass bowl.  The bar, little changed since it opened in 1945, is one of Scarborough’s greatest glories.  Its decor is a sunburst of yellow and white, a banana split recreated in formica.  The walls are lined by mirrors and slogans. “Get your vitamins the easy way,” “Eat ice cream every day”. Or: “Ice Cream! Nutritious! Delicious!”

McClarence/Times, 2000