Why is Whitby known for Dracula?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 เม.ย. 2023
- In this video, I explore the connection between Whitby in North Yorkshire and the legendary vampire Count Dracula! I visit the key places that were the inspiration behind Bram Stoker's classic novel, including the guest house where he stayed.
It was in Whitby that Bram Stoker found inspiration for the setting of Dracula, with its haunting Whitby Abbey ruins, winding cobbled streets, and the atmospheric Whitby Harbour.
Inspired by HBO’s True Blood.
Special thanks to Andy Dunn & Andrina Carroll for their readings of the novel.
Special thanks to Bram's View Apartment (www.bramsviewwhitby.com) & Whitby Museum (www.whitbymuseum.org.uk) for allowing me to film inside their properties.
Thumbnail photo - thanks to Sian (Instagram @yorkshirepostcards)
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I found your channel after a holiday to Scarborough in 2021 and just love these videos. You pick such interesting topics and tell your stories in a really engaging way. Keep up the awesome work!
Cheers Lee!
Awesome 👏 🧛♀️
Great filming and storytelling. Whitby is a wonderful place.
Thanks.
Cheers Rachel. Yes it is!
The seats on the 199 steps were for the pallbearers to rest the coffin on, when taking someone to the graveyard. Great video 2x👍
From the Dracula musical "MASTER THEY THINK A LOCKED DOOR PREVENTS YOU, YOUR ON YOUR WAY I CAN SENSE YOU, THROUGH THE WINDOWS THROUGH THE GRATING THROUGH THE FLOORBOADS, THROUGH THE FANLIGHTS COMES THE MIST AND YOUR KISS!" I love Dracula and Whitby is soo beautful!!!!!
Another spectacular video!!! You are an excellent narrator and have created an atmospheric video filled with factual and enlightening content... a combination of enjoyable and educational commentary and scenic beauty. Thank you!
Thank you!! Really appreciate those comments.
Brilliant video. Welcome back hope you and your family are doing well. To the man with the most calming voice I know of 🐲
Thanks Nicholas. All good, cheers 👍🏼
Thanks my friend i really enjoyed this vlog.
Chris.
Great video, very polished and beautifully put together.....
Thanks Ken!
Excellent video very professional and interesting-well researched.
Cheers Alan! 👍🏼
That drone shot out, over the steps toward the abbey...
Holy bitey neckie that was as sweet as fresh blood from a maiden... 👍
Haha Bats eye view! 🦇🙌🏼
I grew up spending a lot of time in Whitby totally oblivious to the Dracula story, heard of Dracula and saw the Dracula Experience open but never questioned why it was opened in Whitby.
I can highly recommend the Dracula production in the abbey every October, totally fabulous especially when it clashes with the autumn goth weekend.
Great video, as always. I recently spent a couple of days in Hutton le Hole and took the steam train from Pickering to Whitby. Had a great time.
Must read the book after your video now Andrew.
In whitby at the moment watching your video and visiting all the sights. If it wasn't for the info in this I wouldn't know about the bench and other stuff, thanks!!!
Glad it was helpful!
The Long wait is finaly over, many thanks andrew very factual video, have a wonderfull easter my good friend.
Cheers - you too!
Another great episode on your continuing reveal of all things North Yorkshire. A different take on the normal Whitby and well researched - A captivating watch.
Cheers Malc! 👍🏼
Wonderful panorama of Gothic Whitby, with brilliant images and narrative. A thoroughly enjoyable delve. Well done and thank you!
Cheers Malcolm! 👍🏼
Terrific post
Ive just discovered this channel and as a local to whitby and North Yorkshire ive really enjoyed binge watching these videos and learning the facinating history of my local area. Your videos are so well researched and produced and hopefully your channel continues to grow and gain the recognition it deserves. Keep up the good work Andrew 👍
Thanks Jordan! Glad you’re enjoying them. Plenty more over the next few weeks.
What can we say, another excellent informative and well made video about fantastic North Yorkshire. Thank you, looking forward to the next one.
Cheers Mark! 👍🏼🙂
Brilliant as always. You really deserve a channel 4 series. I just hope that someone of influence is watching this video because I and many more really want you to progress to the next level you deserve! Keep safe, stay positive and you will get there. You are that good!
Thanks so much, John. Really means a lot 👍🏼
Enjoyable - thank you
Amazing production. TV standard. Taught me things about Whitby I didn't know about and I've been going all my life. Fantastic photography and drone footage. I especially appreciated the night-time photography at the end of the video. Excellent work.
Thank you! Appreciate your comment on the night shots - that was a late, cold, wet one! 🥶👍🏼
Another great video and long over due mate. Lol. We keep looking out for them and do appreciate how much to,e they must take to produce such a quality programme. Whitby is one of our favourite places and so good to see some of the views you’ve shown in this video. Once again, a big thanks Andrew and keep em coming. 👍
Cheers Chris! Next one won’t be long, well on with the edit already. Really making an effort to get more out this year 👍🏼
Really interesting content and professional drone footage as usual Andrew. 👏🏻👏🏻
Another masterpiece of a video
Thank you! 👍🏼
Fabulous stuff Andrew, thanks so much. Whitby's a must visit regardless but the Dracula conncetion adds even more intrigue to what is already a fascinating place. Loved your drone footage, especially of the jaw dropping viaduct at Larpool. Great work!!
Thanks again Jeff! 👍🏼
Great video well researched,I always look forward to your videos,best wishes John.
Cheers John!
Fabulous video 👌🏻🙏🏻👍
Superb video, expertly put together *****
Lovely well-produced presentation, Andrew. Your drone skills are sublime. Well done and thanks.
Thanks Colin! 👍🏼
Great work pal
Great piece of work Andrew, music was awesome.
An excellent video, very well narrated and great location shots.
Thanks Mike!
Great video work.and story
Great video, really informative and interesting.
Magic again.
Excellent video, thanks.
Hi Andrew , I’m sorry to say for some reason I wasn’t getting notifications of your new videos 😞 , don’t worry I’ve sorted that now ! As usual amazing production and very informative. I’ve been following you since the beginning and hope you continue making more films , I showed the Dracula one to my partner , she was really impressed with your presentation and the entire style of the film and we both agreed we learnt something new from it. Sorry this was long winded but please keep up the good work 😎
Thanks as always Peter! Glad you got to see it mate 👍🏼
Great videos 👍🏼
Great informative video. Nice footage. I so enjoyed it, something I could really get my teeeth into.
As always, there are many facets of Whitby that are appealing with regard to Dracula in terms of the number of location sites firmly linked to the details of the text itself. As for the Count's temporary grave site on the East Cliff, one only needs to follow Mina's detailed description of her midnight sleep walking adventure to the letter to be able to virtually pinpoint in a quite accurate fashion where 'the grave of George Cannon the alleged suicide' must be situated up there. (Bearing in mind, of course, that Mina's precise memory of the event may have been a little hazy by the time she had come to write it all up in her journal.) This, of course, is the 'fictional' one that Dracula had chosen to occupy for the short period of his stay in the town. Thus, adopting the 'sight lines' of the essential literary references relating to Lucy's hypnotic remark while out walking on the West Cliff..."His red eyes again"...and Mina's response in the form of her instinctive interpretation of the scene by way of Lucy's remark relating to the possible reflection of the setting sun in one of the tall gothic windows of the church, the two girl's fictional 'favourite seat' below which the stone of the suicide's grave had rested in the story, HAD to have been positioned - metaphorically speaking - somewhere in front of the three windows at the west front or even quite perceivably the three at the north facing side because Dracula himself had been seen by them sitting casually upon it that very same late afternoon.
Wonderful video Andrew ,excellent views of Whitby with a great narrative of a very interesting piece of fiction. Thank you and look forward to your next video.
Thanks Robert!
Brilliant video Andrew ... keep them coming buddy (I met you in town one day and pleaded with you to make more) 🙂🙂🙂
Cheers Antony! Should just be a couple of weeks until the next one 👍🏼
Excellent video, just not sure if the music quite fits!
Great pictures,music and info as usual andrew . Im not a dracula fan but enjoyed all the same, keep up the good work. Best wishes, Ben
Thanks Ben. I realised this one wouldn’t be for everyone but I couldn’t start producing videos in Whitby and not cover its Dracula connection! 🧛♂️🙂
Appreciate you still watching it. Hope you’re well!
@@NorthYorkshireWanderer hi Andrew yes fine another week flies by I've been in darkest Halifax,Southawram, Coley and Shelf today, my youngest daughter travelled with a school friend to scarbro last Tuesday . They had a great time, paddle and most importantly a visit to the harbour bar!!! A firm family favourite passed down from my late Grandad who loved "scarbee" , the north bay, peasholm,the little train, bonets choccy shop, and the cricket festival (gdad wasnt a lover of the South bay with the exception of the harbour bar and the Corona)(hope that's the right name) boat tour
Re Dracula as said I found it interesting, the thing with the steps and the church ruins is people forget about the church that's still up there in use including me!! Whitby abbey and Bolton abbey annoy me as id want them rebuilt to look nice , like Dracula I don't do ruins! But appreciate some folk do.
I remember the goths going when we visited Whitby, I think also at that time the captain cook replica boat caused an increase in visitors, me and ex wife used to alternate destinations every month (I used to visit every month ie on my long weekend) . Anyway, it's the weekend now, and I'm not working so that's nice.
Take care and as ever I look forward to the next installment. Best wishes. Ben
Do a Captain Cook one next👍
Danke für das großartige Video.
Schön dass du wieder von dir hören lässt.
Schöne Ostern für dich und deine Familie 🍀🌻
Cheers - Happy Easter!
Nah! Dracula's Grave is in the cellar of my house in Roandola, one of the Saxon villages of Transilvania, around 20 kilometres west of Sighișoara 😊
It's actually a bath shaped pit which I named Dracula's Grave and was used to slake lime for the limewash used to coat both the interior and exterior walls of the houses.
Have you checked out the remains of MV Creteblock, one of a few concrete ships ever built? It lies above the low water mark between Whitby snd Saltwick Bay.
I’ve only ever seen photos. Not been to it yet.
Yet another excellent video Andy 👏👏👏 thoroughly enjoyed it 👍 ... you most definitely should do a Whitby Goth Weekend video it would definitely be the best one out there 😉👍 ... ❤👵🐾🐾🐾🤠
Thanks, as always. Hope you’re both well! 🙂
We've been to Whitby a few times, but never really bothered with the Dracula side of it. Now you have made me interested to find out more! I really enjoyed your video... but found the music a little distracting, but that is only my opinion. As always, a very interesting, well presented and researched piece... I look forward to your next video 😊
Thanks Mary, glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
Lhe List of Seven by Mark Frost co writer of Twin Peaks will explain everything. The Beergut Explodes. Whitby YEAH!!!
Excellent work, Andrew!
Hope you did make it through the night. Yes, they are out there... 🤣
p.s. who is shooting you walking, or has your drone more smarts than the average?
Cheers Bryan!
My friend Jack is helping a little this year. Mainly with my pieces to camera on the bigger videos.
l like Whitby and it's. Interesting about Dracula be nice to go maybe this year
Hi - what is the music used, please? Great video - I love Whitby.
Like your videos very much and thank you for making them. Please can you tell me the name of the country music song playing as the story of the black dog leaping from the ship commences?
Found this video very interesting, thank you for making it! Out of curiosity, does one need special permission to film with drone around Whitby/Whitby Abbey?
Not really. It just depends on the weight of your drone and that you’re flying within the regs.
Thanks
Thanks so much mate. Really appreciate that 🙌🏼
@@NorthYorkshireWanderer Keep up the good work Andrew,
@@NorthYorkshireWanderer will cover a days insurance!
Good to see the interior of number 6 Royal Crescent along with some very nice drone shots of the area. What is not so good to witness are the current so-called Goth gatherings that have clearly degenerated over the years into nothing more than bizarre freak shows that have nothing to do with the original concept of them whatsoever. As far as those are concerned, they have clearly lost the plot altogether.
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Any1 know the song playing at 3mins..thanks in advance
I have twice visited Whitby when on holiday it he area, once was in 1962, the other was in 1978 and we are about to return. Until recently I had never heard of its association with the Dracula story. To me the town has much of interest, especially the Abbey, but that tale holds no interest
Alright mate 6 royal crescent was owned by my family the harkers. Namely George and fanny harker. Harker was Mam's maiden name.
Thanks for another cracking vlog next time use steam punk music for more authentic tracks 😊
Cheers mate. I would have liked to but I couldn’t find anything on the royalty free music site I use.
Next Goth weekend is the last weekend in April, come and enjoy
What a disappointing interior for a property with that history. They could have filled it to the brim with interesting antiques yet it looks like something from Oak Furniture Land & DFS hahahaaa. People have such limited imaginations.