04/09/2026
Solid brass Dicky Dickinson Door Knocker in Antique Brass finish suitable for your front door and to add interest to interior doors eg the bathroom or a child’s bedroom door. A novelty talking point, especially for those who love local history and a good story!
Quite a character! And a man for our times. Dicky Dickinson’s entrepreneurial spirit enabled him, disabled and poorly educated as he was, to make a huge success of the Spa project in Scarborough in the early 1700s. First celebrated Governor of the Scarborough Spa (c.1669 – 1739), he made a lot of money for the town (and also, incidentally, for himself!) selling Spa waters.
Natural spring waters bubbling out from the cliff were discovered by Thomasin Farrer, wife of the Bailiff, one of Scarborough’s leading citizens. The site became the precursor to the present Spa complex which later developed into a fashionable attraction in the 18th century. This wealth lifted Scarborough out of the miserable conditions then prevailing, eventually to become known as the “Jewel of Seaside Resorts”.
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