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Other Locations of Interest
| Period | Location | Reference On Maps | Reason |
| 16 November 1922 | The Bar Hotel, Scarborough | w | The site of Ernest Dyer’s death |
The Bar Hotel as it looked in 1890 (left) and in about 2000 (right)
The site as it is now – what was a hotel is now a pawnbroker’s shop
The initial Press Report of the death and (right) the Inquest report
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The Bar Hotel in Scarborough – the site of Ernest Dyer’s death some six months after he murdered Gordon Eric Gordon-Tombe in Kenley.
The first picture 1 was taken in 1890. The hotel is the building with its doorway on the street corner where the three gentlemen are standing. The letter "B" for "Bar" is discernible just above the entrance. The turreted Bar which gave the hotel its name and the adjoining building to the left were pulled down in 1891 in order to improve traffic flow so the street would have appeared much altered by 1922. Picture 2 was taken about ten years ago and shows the exterior upper storeys largely unchanged and a shop occupying the ground floor. Unfortunately the actual spot where Dyer met his end has been lost forever as the interior was completely gutted and redeveloped in 1985. As the lower pictures show, the building is now a pawnbroker’s shop.
Provenance : All material received with grateful thanks from Stephen Gregory
References :
'Drink and Ink' p 49
Phil Baker p239
The Museum, Room 3 and more specifically, this page
