When I lived in Scarborough there were sometimes nostalgia articles in the paper about the hiring fair, which was still, thirty years ago, within living memory for some elderly townsfolk.
It was described as taking place on St Nicholas Cliff, where the Grand Hotel and the St Nicholas Hotel, with its Charles Laughton links, stand.
The funfair on the coach park marks the end of the holiday season, or it did when I was Community Tutor there.
Cheers
Dave