Jimmy Savile’s Scarborough home

I often stay at The Grand Hotel at Scarborough but the parking outside is so poor I park near the Esplanade and walk to the hotel. I pass Wessex Court where Jimmy Savile had a flat overlooking the south bay and, for some reason, I can’t stop my eye darting to the holes on the wall where the wall plaque had once been.

After Jimmy died the media frothed about this charity work and a wall plaque was mounted on Wessex Court – also a street sign was erected a few metres away called “Savile’s View”. Both were soon taken down. Jimmy’s catalogue of sex crimes emerged and all references to him were removed. Even the £4,000 headstone on his grave was smashed up and removed (through the night by the funeral directors.)

Not a bad view from the balcony…

Stills from Louis Theroux’s documentary about meeting Jimmy Saville…