A hand coloured postcard of St Ann’s Staithe Whitby, compare it with the black and white postcard on the site. A Valentines series card, posted in 1905.
Image courtesy Ken Johnson.
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 Whitby West Cliff from across the harbour, the buildings on the Battery and along Pier Road have changed since this photograph was taken. Captain Cook’s statue is present above Khyber Pass but the Whalebones are missing. Sandsend and the cliffs are seen in the distance, from a postcard posted in 1931. Image courtesy of Ken Johnson.  This is one of 40 views given away free with Wood-Milne Shoeshiners at three shillings four and a half pence a tin; what a lovely peaceful scene. The boats in the foreground are square sterned cobles , and one double ender with lug sail hoisted; a larger schooner is tied up to the quay. Across the harbour is St Michael’s Church, other ancient buildings along the harbourside were all demolished, as was the Angel Vaults on Dock End. Image courtesy of Joyce Dobson.  An atmospheric hand coloured postcard view of Whitby harbour. The two craft on the left appear to be ketch rigged fishing yawls, with two lug sailed cobles further up harbour. The information with the card states Whitby Regatta 19th August 1925. Image courtesy of Ken Johnson.  The fishing fleet at Dock End Whitby, this postcard view is stamped 1907. The two masted fishing drifter tied up to the quay, has an PZ (Penzance) Cornish registration. At the height of the Herring season, the harbour would have been full of Scottish, Cornish and other East Coast ports fishing craft of many different types. The boats and the fisher lasses that handled the catch onshore travelled following the Herring shoals as they moved around the coast. Image courtesy of Ken Johnson.  A Reliable series postcard of Runswick Bay around 1900. The old road down to the village and beach can be seen above the cottages. At this date they would belong to fishermen and their families; unlike today when in winter months the ‘holiday cottage’ residents are absent. Image courtesy of Ken Johnson.  A painting used on a postcard, of Rigg Mill; postmarked 1912, we have a photograph by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe of the same scene. Image courtesy Ken Johnson.  Postcard (one of the John Thomas Ross series) of the 199 steps from Church Street to St Mary’s church and the Abbey; at the right is the well named Donkey Road, with obligatory donkey. Postcard posted in 1929. Image courtesy Ken Johnson.  A postcard (a painting) of Robin Hoods Bay, around 1900. The lady in the red shawl with basket is approaching a coble just beached, perhaps to buy some fish. Image courtesy Ken Johnson.  The sad and trashed interior of Kettleness Chapel, pictured in c.1980; originally the mission church of St John the Baptist and built in 1872. Lack of worshipper’s led to its decline, but now useful for another purpose, allbeit as a privately owned and used holiday home. Somebody still loves it! Image courtesy of Eric Johnson. |
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