Bygone times

Boots corner - Demolished 1975.

The Spa ladder - replaced with a solid causeway about 2000

St Michael's Church - Built 1847, demolished 1977.

Union Mill - Demolished ----, now a carbuncle.Haggersgate - demolished 1970's now flats.Lifeboat davits on Tate hill pier - Demolished by SBC, reason "unsafe" (it only took 2 weeks with windy hammers to knock them down!) Is that a slipway to the harbour from Scotch head? What was the building above the slipway, now Tuby's?What else can you see? Where's Wally?Old Spa pavilion - Now new Spa pavilion.Old mini golf - Now Arnold Palmer crazy golf. Club professional Pete Brown.

Old Bridge - now new old bridge!Old Boots' corner - now New Quay road.Note where car park is now, land must have been reclaimed, looks like a dock!Bell island just visible.Must have been a "norwester" blowing as Jim Hutch and his cronies are not stood at the bridge end, they're sheltering behind Colliers, must be early morning, bookies aren't open yet. Eyup! There's a picture of Bell Island 1975 before it was reclaimed for car parking.And there's the railway sidings and the coal yard "and there's King Coal loading his lorry" and Endeavour Wharf and the Gas works and the Shipyard (do you remember the Shipyard club, better than Stringfellows eh!) and St Mike's school and loads of other good things - all long gone!Feel free to draw the new bridge in if you want and perhaps even a potash mine up on'till!

Cooks Smithy 1930's Church street. Is some of it still there?Look at that, OXO mmmm, brown ale 7d a pint. "Hey Rambo, that 'oss is running in the 3.30 at Chepstow, stick a quid on it!"

SBC deconstructing what's left of the East pier. A spokesperson for SBC said " We were going to rebuild it on the lake at Peasholme park for the battle cruiser moorings but it was too big. So we decided, democratically, that if we couldn't have it, Whitby couldn't either. Let's be fair, that's the way we've always made decisions, surely you remember when the old Wh!tby town council had enough money to buy a 50 metre indoor pool, well we didn't have one!" Whitby harbour committee held a secret public meeting and agreed with SBC's decision, adding "People fishing off the West pier can now cast right across the harbour bar on to the scaur and the rowers will pass under the lines on Regatta day, thus ending the abuse the anglers get when they accidently snag the lead crews number 1 in the back of the neck with a trace of 6 mackerel feathers, 3 muppets and a jigger." Apparrently Scarborough don't have an Abbey!Where's Woolies? Bankrupt, just like Kodak! Mind you, I believe tents are selling very well, must be the housing shortage.

"Buster Keaton and Ben Turpin"officially open Whitby's new state of the art fire station 1930's.

It's there again, Union Mill. I bet it was seen as an eyesore in those days, anyway it was replaced by another eyesore. Then the planners stepped in and lo and behold

1900'sGasworks - gone!Dye works - gone!Shipyard - gone!Fishing boats - ????If you look closely behind the house at the back of the gasometer there is the cladded Whalebone shed. (see next picture.)

There you are! 1930's

Yes I know this picture is in the yards section, but I had to put it in here as it also made way for the developers. Anyway its worth a second showing, because if you talk to anyone over sixty they can't put two sentences together without mentioning the Tin Ghaut, Falkingbridges or Roses ales.