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... Whitsun This is not what I meant: Stucco arches, the banked rocks sunning in rows, Bald eyes or petrified eggs, Grownups coffined in sto...

The Church of St. John the Evangelist stands at the bottom of Brunswick Street, Whitby. Built in 1848-50 in Early English style as a chapel ...

Watch the wall…..while the gentlemen go by. (Rudyard Kipling) Yesterday se’nnight The Fawn, smuggling lugger, with a thousand ankers of rum,...

The view of Whitby from the West Cliff, looking east across the harbour towards the Abbey, must be one of the most well-known and iconic i...

This large stone lies in sand at the foot of the cliff at Kettleness. All along its spine it has carvings of South Seas style faces. When, w...

The eggs of Aeolidia papillosa ... Last summer I was surprised to discover the eggs of the Common Grey Sea Slug (Aeolidia papillosa) under a...

Written and illustrated by Richard Locker ... The Prospect Of Whitby is thought to be the oldest surviving public house in London, it can be...

20:06:10 Abandoned shoes created by artist Viv Mousdell examining the mutability of sand and time in an installation by the beach huts , Whi...

BY RICHARD LOCKER ... Herman Melville 'There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gentle rolling ship; by her...

Barnacles and limpets are a common sight on any of the rocks around Whitby, and you could be forgiven for thinking that the two creatures ar...