Whitby, North Yorkshire

2 September 2005 & 10 September 2006 & September 5th 2011

Whitby Abbey

Circular section looks suspiciously like a 'swastika' to me.

Detailed silver belt end
 

Whitby Town & Harbour

   

September 10th 2006

1. View of Abbey 2. Harbour Entrance 3. Town view north side 4. Cliff Base beneath Abbey 5. Causeway (Pipe?)

1,2,3 Rock Pools 4. Looking southwards 5. Gulls waiting for tide

1. Harbour Entrance 2. Ammonite 3. Fools (?) Gold 4, 5. See note (1) below

1. Ammonite 2 & 3 Tourist boat, 4. The 199 steps (to Abbey) at base of street 5. Shopping Street

1 & 2 Shopping streets 3 & 4 Brother Caedron's Memorial 5. Harbour entrance


Note (2)

1. Saxon Baby Tomb 2. See note below 3. All pews are segregated 4 & 5 Scoreby Chair 6. Unique 3 tier Pulpit 7. Grave concidences!

   

September 5th 2011

     
       

Note (1) : Whilst I was walking along the foreshore looking for fossils I noticed this "ship" wrecked about a quarter mile away ( a good half mile from the harbour southwards) so I went over to look. To my surprise it was made of concrete. My guess is that it is of WW2 origin and was possibly something for the D Day Landings. Being towed southwards from possibly Newcastle it broke free and was wrecked. I did hear tell that loss of life was involved. I asked a lady in the Church by the Abbey but she had never heard of this wreck even though she had lived there all her life.

  Note (2). This coffer held the St Mary Church records and plate until a date in the 18th Century when robbers stole it from the Church and dashed it down the cliffs in a successful effort to break the three locks. All that was found was the empty coffer. The records and church plate had vanished.