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 A stylised postcard from the Oilette series, with a different view of Whitby. Taken from the steps approaching the shorter east pier, it gives a different perspective with Whitby seeming to gather around the harbour, St Mary’s Church tower appears over the cliff on the left of the scene. An idylic scene. Image courtesy of Ken Johnson.  This lovely image which includes MetropoleHotel (now Metropole Towers), Whitby and as it describes the gardens, we presume before the Cliff Lift was installed; is from a beautiful hand tinted postcard. The difference from modern times is further emphasised by the lack of road traffic; no coaches or cars lining the side of the road! Image courtesy of Ken Johnson.  This coloured postcard of 1905, shows the upper harbour, many of the buildings and the dock itself have been demolished and altered out of recognition compared with modern photographs of the same scene. New Quay Road now runs through the Angel Hotel Vaults building on the quay side, and much of the dock was filled in and developed. Across the harbour, to the left of the now demolished St Michael’s Church, the wide slipway to the harbour was known as Alders Waste. Image courtesy of Ken Johnson.  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.  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 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. |
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