I live about 20 miles up the coast from whitby and have visited whitby all my life , in the 70s if you looked at the Quay side then you would of seen trawlers and crab and lobster boats 3 deep 20 boats long tied up at the quay , now its about 10 to 20 if your lucky of working boats , no white fish is landed at whitby nowadays, i think only shell fish , but there is hope the fish landing / market is now being turned into a lobster breeding sanctuary, same i think as the one in Padstow in cornwall these will be bred and released to sea to grow on , whitby is open all year round as a holiday destination now with lots of weekend activities all year from goth weekend ,60s , 70s week ends ,folk week, regatta week ect , whitby is a great place ,
Captain Cook wasn't a whitby man he was born in Marton Middlesbrough. I had a look at his mother's grave in great Ayton a few days ago his father's buried a few mile away at maske by the sea. The church cook was baptised in still stands in Marton and you can see his name in the baptism records
The horn to tell the people to go into the sea wasn’t that loud I thought it would’ve been better if they used a gas fog horn as a louder signal so they can hear it when it’s time to go in
Whitby Town Council didn't "recommend approval", they didn't raise any objections - because there were no objections in planning law that could be raised. WTC commented a list of concerns, including: no submitted plan for outside queue management, no disabled toilet faciliities, no external access for waste storage/collection, internal waste storage next door to food preparation, only toilet facilities requires staircase access.
