Scarborough bombardments in pictures

Damage to the Scarborough Grand Hotel Credit: Topography/Topham Picturepoint/Press Association Images
John Shields Ryalls, aged 14 months, one of the youngest victims of the bombardment on the 16th December 1914, in the arms of Miss Bertha MacIntyre, who was killed at the same time. Credit: S&G/S&G Barratts/EMPICS Archive
Damage to the lighthouse on Vincent's Pier, Scarborough, caused by shells from the German battlecruisers SMS Derffflinger SMS Von Von Der Tann when the town was bombarded on the morning of 16 December 1914. Credit: S&G/S&G Barratts/EMPICS Archive
Damage to a house in the commercial street, Scarborough, caused by shells from the German Navy when the town was bombarded on the morning of 16 December 1914. Credit: Topography/Topham Picturepoint/Press Association Images
Damage to a house in the crescent, Scarborough, caused by shells from the German Navy when the town was bombarded on the morning of 16 December 1914. Credit: Topography/Topham Picturepoint/Press Association Images
Damage to the Scarborough Grand Hotel, caused by shells from the German Navy when the town was bombarded on the morning of 16 December 1914. Credit: Topography/Topham Picturepoint/Press Association Images
A house in Lonsdale Road, Scarborough, as it appeared after being struck by a shell from a German warship. Credit: Topography/Topham Picturepoint/Press Association Images
Mrs Merryweather was killed just inside the door of her husband's shop in Prospect Place. Credit: Topography/Topham Picturepoint/Press Association Images