The Golden Ball Sandside. Scarborough

Well known for the quality of its Sam Smiths Tadcaster ales,
this pub was also bustling with life in the 19th Century when
it directly adjoined a shipbuilding yard. In those days , before
the construction of the Marine Drive round the Castle Headland,
the road passed behind the pub. Instead of shipbuilding yards
with launch ramps into the Harbour, there is now a new quay
with crab stalls alongside the Harbour and the opportunity of
taking coffee in at least twelve different establishments on the
landward side of the road where the pub now looks ill at ease
with its tacky neighbour.

An old salt and close friend who passed away in his nineties was
born in 1907. He recalled friends sitting at a table over a few drinks
in the front room of the Golden Ball when the bowsprit of a Schooner,
which had mistimed its speed onto its berth, crashed through the
pub window tipping over both table and drinks ! Oh for a blip
of that !