Whitby history starting by the yard
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I spent a couple of hours on Saturday walking around Whitby’s Museum and with an entrance fee of £3.00 it was to say the least good value for money. There’s many interesting categories like information about Captain Cook and his travels, costumes from bygone eras, fossils and geology, paintings, photographs and the list goes on but there was one primary reason why was visiting and that was in my quest to try to find an old picture of my Whitby cottage yard. I’m going to set up a website all about some of the interesting history of Whitby and one of the first things I was trying to do was to establish the little piece which personally connected to and that is my cottage and its yard.
I know that it was built by Rev Haydock in 1720 and there is documentation on the Internet about this. I realise I’m biased but I think the ad is one that most beautiful yards in Whitby and I was trying to find an old picture, painting or drawing of the yard which isn’t proving to be easy.
This is the Frank Sutcliff gallery in Whitby http://www.sutcliffe-gallery.co.uk/
Whitby Museum and its parent organisation, the Whitby Literary & Philosophical Society. http://www.whitbymuseum.org.uk/
I tried to Whitby Gazette and they basically they had no idea what pictures of the yards were taken over the years and when, and I might only opportunity would be to troll through all the back issues which would be very time-consuming.
So my next endeavour was to make enquiries at the Frank Sutcliff gallery. Sutcliffe is Whitby’s most famous photographer and artist and from the 1870s he took hundreds of photographs of the area. I’m not an expert but I have spoken to a very helpful member of the staff in the Sutcliffe gallery and he told me that Sutcliffe made his living by photographing holidaymakers of the time and by the very fact they were on holiday this made them wealthy people. But even wealthy people didn’t own cameras during these times, so this is where Sutcliffe stepped in to which was probably 
quite a profitable business.
Sutcliffe, won numerous gold and silver medals for his photography, but not for photographs of holidaymakers, but of the hard-working people of this old fishing port during their daily struggle to survive. Sutcliffe actually set up its first studio in Waterloo Yard, which my cottage backs onto.
Unfortunate for me I was told that Sutcliffe didn’t take many photographs of the yards in Whitby at all because at that time there were basically quite grim working properties that were overcrowded with often eight people sharing two rooms. They were certainly not thought of as the prestigious type of property they are today due to tourism. It’s quite amusing when you think that a lot of people today are nostalgic for olden times which they imagine to be a slower pace of life, in comparison to our technolog driven high-speed world. But the reality is that the majority of working people bygone times it was truly a grind especially in hard-working places like a fishing port like Whitby
Four hundred of Sutcliffe’s photographs have been published I believe there is at least the amount still have not seen the light of day to the general public, so you never know I might be lucky in the future.
One thing I found very interesting in the museum was a section to the artist called Albert T Pile who was not a professional artist, but who actually produced a great deal of artwork mostly during his retirement years. More recent work of note is a collection of sepia and wash drawings by Albert T. Pile (1882- 1981) which record many of the yards in the old part of Whitby before and during their demolition during the 1950’s . Anyway as my yard was not demolished I’m not sure if Mr Pile produced his representation, but I will find out because I’m going to contact the museum next week to see if they can help me in my quest.
If anybody is interested in collaborating in my forthcoming, ongoing website on Whitby and its colourful history please contact me.
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