Work to restore Scarborough's South Cliff gardens has been continuing this week with work to reopen the "cliff lift tunnel".
The tunnel was used to join the gardens so people could pass beneath the cliff lift before structural issues saw its enforced closure.
The boarded up tunnel was built in 1874 beneath the railway tracks of the cliff lift and is being reopened to the public as part of the garden restoration.
Exciting times at @HLFSCGardens today. Tunnel ‘open’, accessible route taking shape, scaffold up for the Belvedere railings restoration, and much much more… pic.twitter.com/7p1ZIQgk8Y
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https://twitter.com/ArtisNewcastle/status/1458187975947337729?s=20https://twitter.com/ArtisNewcastle/status/1458187975947337729?s=20Over recent weeks work has also been taking place on the shelters in the gardens.
Work on the restoration of the much-loved South Cliff Gardens in Scarborough, jointly funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and The National Lottery Community Fund.
The Borough Council was successfully awarded a grant of £4,665,700 towards the cost of the project by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Community Fund as part of their Parks for People joint initiative, and has itself contributed £2,041,000. This was added to money generously raised by the local South Cliff community and ‘in kind’ contributions to complete the funding of the £7.158m project.
The restoration project aims to preserve the gardens’ unique heritage and improve them in a way that will reconnect them with today’s residents and visitors, in the same way that the original gardens did more than one hundred years ago.
Scarborough Borough Council has appointed Hull-based civil engineering company, PBS Construction Ltd, as the principle contractor to deliver the restoration.
PBS say they were delighted to welcome pupils and staff from the Scarborough Pupil Referral Unit down to site recently for a guided tour of the project. Alan Clarke (PBS Site Manager), Brendon Smurthwaite (PBS Community Manager) and Gemma Alexander (South Cliff Gardens Community Engagement Officer) led the tour which allowed the pupils and staff to learn more about the restoration works.
Jennie Rogers, Careers Leader at Scarborough PRU, said:
“We visited the South Cliff Gardens site with a variety of pupils from different year groups and they all gained useful information about the project from the tour. The pupils were informed of the history of the site and also about the improvements which are currently underway. They really enjoyed learning about the history and are looking forward to seeing everything when the project is completed.”
Brendon Smurthwaite, PBS Community Manager, added:
“We’re really keen to invite schools and colleges down to site to see the project in progress. When I spoke to Jennie about having some of their staff and pupils come along for a site visit it was an idea she really liked. We’ve also invited the school to assist with our monthly litter picks and the plan is to development our relationship with them during the remainder of the project.”
The whole project is due to be completed in April 2022 when the local community group is looking forward to hosting an opening event.
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