Old Images of Whitby, England

Enjoy old photos, pictures and vintage postcards of Whitby, in North Yorkshire, England.
Includes the world-famous Whitby Abbey, the Harbour, and the Pier. Also some wonderful old photos of the hardy fisherfolk who once lived here.
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Music: Heart, from Charles Michel on Pixabay, via Vidds

[@juliew1824]

These are great, thanks for sharing them. I love Whitby.

[@localhistoryvideos]

Thank you for your lovely comment. It is indeed a beautiful place with history at every corner. The arrangements for vast numbers of people to do park and ride for the steampunk weekends are also better than anything I've ever encountered for events on that scale.

[@suepage5790]

Lovely Frank Suttcliffe photo.s..

[@localhistoryvideos]

He was an incredible photographer and deserves to be better known. What insight to have realised that these images of everyday life were worth preserving.

[@hirundine44]

When a child, my Grandparents, lived in Whitely Bay, One time when dad was driving us all north toward Newcastle. I was able to see the road map and became confused between Whitby and Whitely..? While these days I am aware of the difference. That always stuck in mind...

[@localhistoryvideos]

Easy confusion for a child...both sound the same and both are next to the sea! I think it is interesting to see how the two places have changed over the past 50 years in such different ways. Back in the 90s I worked with someone in Northumberland whose family went to a B&B in Whitley Bay for a week each year, because it was a family tradition, but I doubt many people do that now. Meanwhile, parts of Whitby seem to be a ghost town outside the tourist season....

[@user-th9br9mx4h]

Times past when Whitby was not full of heathens.

[@localhistoryvideos]

Some of them looked like they'd give a hefty right hook if you annoyed them though :)

[@stevezodiac491]

A nice little historic video, utterly spoilt by the speed the pictures are turned over, with hardly any dwell time to study the pictures, pointless !

[@localhistoryvideos]

Hi, thanks for watching and for giving feedback. The speed is such a tricky thing to get right for a broad audience, especially in a Tik Tok world. There are ways to change the playback speed on TH-cam, but I have a suggestion you may like better. I uploaded all the images used in the video to this page: localhistoryvideos.com/whitby/

[@ronhyde8758]

The link works but the pictures don't appear @@localhistoryvideos

[@shona1578]

@@localhistoryvideos What an excellent idea, including a link to all of the images. I wish more TH-camrs would do that. Thank you!