Impossible To Walk
“It is impossible to walk from Scarborough to Taylor’s Mistake round the bottom of the cliffs,” said the coxswain of the Sumner Lifeboat (Mr J. Kerr) last evening. “From the boatshed, in daylight, it is only about 10 minutes walk round the rocks to where the students were stranded on Thursday. .“And that is as far as you can go. The cliff is sheer on the seaward side of Whitewash Head. The rocks are covered with bird droppings about a foot thick in places and the cliff is very slippery. “The sea has washed a cave under the cliff big enough to put a dinghy in. You would have to be able to walk on sea or air to get round the foot of it.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31316, 11 March 1967, Page 1
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