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Grimshaw, who lived in Leeds, often spent considerable time during the summer staying at Scarborough. He first rented a house in the town in the late 1870s, following the death of three of his children at his Leeds home.
He called it Castle-by-the-Sea. Perched on the cliff top just below Scarborough Castle, near St Mary's Church, it has magnificent views of both the north and south bays. The name of his Scarborough house came from the eponymous poem by Longfellow.
The move to the coast inspired much of the artist’s most attractive work, as throughout his career he was always attracted by ships, the sea, and docks, in fact all things maritime.
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