The Grand Pavillion
By 1905 the area had been extended and Victoria Terraces built where people sat to watch pierrots on the beach. Soon a floral clock and floral stairway were added to the attractions, and the Grand Pavilion was built on the site of the fort. There had been a fort here since 1667 to guard the area from attack by Napoleon. Turretted Fort Hall was built nearby in 1792 for John Walker and became the town house of the Greame family of Sewerby House. This was demolished in 1937.
The original Grand Pavilion was demolished in 1936, but a new one replaced it in 1937 and this finally became Leisure World. It was redesigned round the swimming pool and is an indoor complex with activities to suit everyone, and a tropical climate to swim or lounge in.
As you walk along look at the cliffs in the distance. The clay cliffs extend as far as Sewerby and it is worth walking along there and spending a day in Sewerby Park with its many attractions. Past Sewerby the cliffs become chalk and sweep round to Flamborough Head which stretches 6 miles out to sea. You can see the regular flashing of the lighthouse over the headland, four flashes and then a pause, signifying that this is Flamborough, each lighthouse having a different sequence of flashes.
Past Beaconsfield Gardens, with the Bowling Green pavilion standing on the edge of the car park which was once the bowling green.
You will now reach Trinity Cut which was the slipway down which the lifeboat was towed when horses were used.