Old Images of Whitby, England 

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.

Much appreciated. Thank you for watching!

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.

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....

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

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 RU-vid, but I have a suggestion you may like better. I uploaded all the images used in the video to this page: localhistoryvideos.com/whitby/

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

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