Field for horses not donkeys

Regarding the article i n The Scarborough News (September 1 7 ) I have been walking through the s o call ed ‘ Donkeys Field’ for over 43 years and have always referred to it as the ‘Horses Field’ as horses belonging to Scalby Manor were kept in there during the 70s and early 80s. The donkeys have always lived in the paddock by the Burniston Road bridge bordering Scalby Beck.

I n t he upper part o f t he ‘Horses Field’ an isolation hospital existed during the First World War. Up until the mideighties brick walls of some of the buildings were still evident together with two wells now covered over. It would take a Time Team dig to reveal any of these remains now and Dr Binns would know more about this isolation hospital than I do.

In addition to The Real War, 1 914- 1 918 f i rst published i n 1930 by Faber and Faber, Captain Sir Basil Liddell Hart also wrote History of the Second World War published by Cassell in 1970. Unlike Dr Binns, my grandfather, who served in the