Hundreds headed to the seaside town of Scarborough to meet up, play games and take part in traditional customs. Traditions include skipping through the town and hunting meets.
These photos were provided by the Hulton Archive. If you enjoyed this gallery you can find similar on our Yorkshire Heritage section. We also send out a weekly Yorkshire Heritage newsletter to our subscribers. If you’d like to subscribe, you can sign up for free here: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/newsletter
1. Shrove Tuesday
In Scarborough, the very old custom of Shrove Tuesday, is celebrated in the old fashioned way. Almost everyone in Scarborough, make their way to Foreshore Road, and children young and old, skip all along the foreshore, and motorist for once have to drop to walking pace. Photo taken 08 February, 1951. Photo: Hulton Archive
2. Shrovetide Skipping
Traffic was held up while skipping parties blocked the roads. 1951. Photo: Hulton Archive
3. Schoolgirls skip
One of the parties enjoying a huge skip, on the Foreshore road, (Lt to Rt) Kathleen Ashwell, (turning) Pauline Hammond, Margaret Lawrence, Lorna Leach, Rosemary Reid, Eileen Smith, Gillian Green, Sylvia Green, and at the far end turning, Kathleen Ashwell, Scarborough. 03 March, 1954. Photo: Hulton Archive
4. Shrove Tuesday Meet
Every year, on Shrove Tuesday, a meet of the Staintondale Hounds was held at Scarborough and the traditional Meet took place as usual in 1955 at Peasholm Gap. Photo: Hulton Archive