Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/21

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Subject: [Leica] Holiday snaps - The Whitby Harbour Gallery is now complete
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Fri Sep 21 15:34:16 2007

Well, complete may not be quite right, it's complete as far as tonight 
is concerned.
Thanks for looking and for your comments/criticisms/requests

There are now 3 pages, starting here:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Whitby/Harbour/?g2_page=1

By way of explanation: Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, often stayed 
in Whitby (in factz in the house in which we have our rented apartment) 
and wrote that Dracula's ship was blown aground in a storm on Tate Hill 
Sands - a black dog jumped off the ship and ran up the Abbey Steps (all 
199 of them) at the beginning of the novel (so much for it all happening 
in Transylvania :-) ).

The Scoresbys - father and son - see monument - are credited with having 
invented the crow's nest to protect whalers on the lookout for their 
prey. Somewhere in the far north there is also Scoresbysund (between 
Greenland and Canada I believe, but please correct  me if I'm wrong), 
which was named after them.

Captain James Cook was not, as is often related, born in Whitby, he was 
apprenticed there to a shipowner and came from Great Ayton, a village 
further inland. His experience with Whitby built colliers - Whitby Cats 
- and their reliability was the reason for him recommending that the 
Discovery, Endeavour and Resolution were built for the Royal Navy in 
Whitby shipyards.

Whitby is one of the very few ports in the UK still to have a 
shipbuilding industry - The Parkol yards, very close to where Cook's 
ships were built, has an excellent  reputation in the construction, 
repair and modification of trawlers and usually has two or three under 
construction at one time.

So all the best and good night from Hannover
Douglas

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