Builder builds website

 the one that renovated my Whitby holiday cottage in 2007.

When he came to me three weeks ago to ask about having a website made from this company, like most people you didn’t realise there was a lot more important aspects to the website and just how it looks.

The website is now being indexed by Google although it’s not quite finished by Mark who is doing a great job on the design. http://a1-builders-bradford-leeds.com/

So far I have had 3, 2 our sessions on the subject of search engine optimisation and I he expected to get so involved in subject when he first asked the website until I showed him in my Google Webmaster tools and specifically the Google analytics page which shows you exactly and the people visit your site, how long they stay on the website on which pages they have looked at. It’s an absolutely fabulous to it gives you every single piece of information regarding look at your website what words they use when they were finding it where they came from the list goes on.

Davids eyes lit up when I showed in my Whitby cottages website in the last year at just over 47,000 hits and if I was paying for Google ad words it would have cost me approximately £0.50 per click to be on page one of the search engine and you don’t have to be Einstein to work out how much that would have cost.

 I got into the subject because of the Whitby holiday cottages, but I now also apply it to my CCTV and Wireless Alarm Installation company called AD Alarms. I didn’t used to work much beyond Bradford but over the last eight months I’ve been installing a lot of Yale Wireless Alarms and they only take about two hours to install, so I’ve opened up the installation coverage to most of the North of England. Once again it’s been search engine optimisation my website that has enabled me to be or to get the traffic from a much wider area of the country.

Anyway the websites been done at mates rates and the search engine optimisation is being thrown in and I’m sure that his website will get to the top of the search engines where all the traffic is with a little bit of work from David in some guidance from myself.

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Anyway because of that I was staying for a few days and do some maintenance repairs, not that anything was desperate but it might as well be done when this opportunity. On the Sunday evening I had been painting  most of the afternoon and decided I would take a walk along the cliff top around 4 PM just before darkness descended and it was a lovely evening and extremely quiet which makes Whitby all the more beautiful.

When I got to the part for the Royal Crescent Hotel and the statuette of Captain CcookI was surprised when I looked over the harbour to see a crowd of people all standing back watching an extremely powerful sea crashing in, which was surprising because it was an extremely still night with virtually no wind. Anyway I decided I go down and join them and it was fantastic the waves were crashing over the pier front and people were literally standing back to scared to go near the front which was I soon found out the very wise decision.

I decided that to get a good shot of the wave crashing over the section of pier in front of me I needed to get a little closer and the my great wisdom had not worked out the fact that with the wall been in front of me I couldn’t actually see the waves coming forward and so when a particular large wave crashed in I suddenly found 100 buckets of freezing cold water heating me all the same time with a few shovels of salt thrown into good measure, well at least I entertained the crowd as I walked and dripped  off back towards the cottage to get changed.

Next day I was talking to one of the fisherman and he said that the last time they have seen website that crashing in was about 10 years earlier, and it had been caused by some freak disturbance of the top of Scotland which has sent the waves crashing down the East Coast. In fact the waves were so powerful that beyond the bridge I went to see a property which is the sale and was told by the neighbours that the sea waves have been coming over Church Street across the road and hitting the cottages and then actually had to put some bugs out to stop the water getting inside the property’s!

Anyway I’ve enjoyed my time in Whitby and I’m hoping to get back because the cottages still empty, so I have placed a offer 0f 25 percent off till xmas  and we’ve even now at the cancellation of the Christmas which has been booked all year because of ill-health so that people cannot arrive. If I can not manage to get the booking unfortunate they will lose all their money so fingers crossed I’ll try my best over the next three weeks. And if not let’s look on the bright side at least I’ll be spending more time in Whitby and maybe even Christmas.

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Walking past what would be later in time The Magpie cafe in Whitby

I have been quite excited by my recent purchases on eBay; I started to buy some glass negatives approximately 100 years’ old couple of weeks back. The thing that makes them exciting is that they were all shot in Whitby, showing what appears to be a Victorian family enjoying their time in the streets and on the beach. I have been watching Whitby related items for the last four years and I’ve never come across any glass negatives like these wealthy Victorian in people holiday in the town, so they are not that common at all. 

The lady that’s been selling these negatives  on eBay told me that she bought a large collection of random glass negatives them at an auction and only when she look through them that you recognise that some of them were in Whitby. 

It’s kind of a little bit fact-finding gold because if the negatives are places that are not recognisable they sell for small amounts of money and only if the place is popular and recognisable or has a particular ship car from the past does it then become more profitable when selling. The very first slide went up was snatched up by somebody for approximately £60 and on the same evening and next two negatives were won  by someone using some automated bidding software in the last few seconds of the auction.

So by the time the fourth slide came up that evening I just slapped a £100 maximum bid down determined in the last few seconds to get at least one and I managed to get it for £88. Luckily as the last two weeks have gone by the Whitby negatives became a little less costly, so I haven’t had to pay quite as much for the other 10 negative slides I’ve bought.

 Frank Sutcliffe is the famous photographer with a gallery in the town and he took some extremely fine photographs of Whitby and surrounding areas, but the thing is that the ones you see now are always shots of the local fishermen and working women of the town. Frank moved to Whitby because it was then a novelty to have holidays at the seaside for those few people were rich enough to be up to doing this, with the vast majority of people being very poor and working long hours and certainly not being able to afford holidays. But the time was that Frank made his money from the rich Victorian holidaymakers but the photographs you now see at what he took for his own interests of the local working people. 

I have spent hours over the last couple of weeks trying to perfect the art of scanning the small three inches square glass negatives so that I could actually enlarge the images and reprint them on my large format printer keeping the quality still very sharp and good. It’s taken a lot of studying and practice but I’ve managed to now and reprint them on canvas and they look amazing, even though I say so myself.

I find it rather strange when you can look at this moment in time that throws and from 100 years ago and look into the eyes of the people and see and recognise the buildings in the background that are still there today 100 years later. I have one particular photograph which was taken at a distance across to the East side of Whitby

A glass negative of Victorians on Whitby beech

 from the Westcliffe and this one was on a larger glass slide about 8 inches in diameter, the strange thing was that when I scanned it at very high-resolution I could actually see a row of little ragamuffin children standing on the cliff watching the photographer. In fact when you scan them very carefully high-resolution, you get amazing detail that you wouldn’t have seen and it’s a like peering back into the past at that moment in time frozen when the world was a very different place.. 

I will be putting these old the sale on www.whitby-art.co.uk although to be perfectly honest when I first started the Whitby Art   website, I was getting orders in but was getting quite angry when orders actually arrived.

The reason is that when I worked out the amount of time it took to print and put together the box canvas and then the postage and packing I wasn’t making enough profit margin when I was compare my pricings to places like eBay. Anyway I have increasing the prices sufficiently to reduce the orders but to make them worthwhile when they do come in.

I think there a little special these frozen moments of Whitby’s history and I’ll enjoy doing them. And if I don’t get many orders I’ll still be happy because my home and  my Whitby holiday cottages and I will be enjoying the fruits of my labour. 

If you’re interested keep an eye on my website and I will be putting up the other little chunks of history very soon.

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In 1984 I went on the enterprise allowance scheme which meant the government gave me £2000 for one year by monthly installments and started my own company www.adalarms.co.uk which installs CCTV and specialises nowadays in wireless alarms.

My hobbies are psychology and internet marketing using search engine optimisation.

Alan Davidson with Tony Curtis in the middle and Sir Roger Moore on the left

My favorite program in the 70s was The Persuaders starring Sir Roger Moore and Tony Curtis.  I was privileged to meet Tony on several occasions and indeed interviewed him about the program which is on YouTube. I also have met Sir Roger on many occasions and I enjoy the privilege of being his official webmaster of his website www.roger-moore.com which reflects Sir Rogers work as the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and also his acting career in roles like The Saint and James Bond. I choose six questions each month for Sir Roger to answer which had been sent in by his fans.

Sir Roger Moore Tony Curtis and me at The Empire Film Awards 2006

I enjoy challenges and in 2000 whilst working on a film set as a freelance electrician, I was invited to do a small walk on part. This led me and my partner Pauline to becoming friends with a new agency owner for background artists and we went on to enjoy walk on parts in most of the popular soaps on TV and other programs like Heartbeat, which I particularly enjoyed because it is shot on location in Whitby.  My best role was as the barman in Where the Heart Is. after a couple of years I decided to stop working for the agency but I will never forget it,  we had some very unique and enjoyable funny interesting days on different sets.

Pauline and myself at Uri Gellers house

In 2002 whilst talking to Uri Geller the psychic at a book signing, I became is web manager and friend, which allowed me to meet people like Michael Jackson and various other well-known celebrities. Uri used to get me tickets to various celebrity bashes, but the novelty soon wore off I’m not the kind of person to be overly impressed by celebrity.

Me as the barman in Where The Heart Is

My favorite place in the world is Whitby in North Yorkshire, where I almost bought a large guest house in 1988 on the Royal Crescent, but was gazumped, which was a pity. I was lucky enough to buy a holiday cottage near the harbor www.endeavourcottage.co.uk in 2008 and I’ve now started a new project to form the Whitby Holiday Letting Agency at www.whitby-holiday-cottages.co.uk with a view to expanding its business and move into Whitby to permanently live.

Pauline, me and Uri Geller in his house

Me as the barman in Where The Heart Is

My interview with Tony Curtis talking about The Persuaders http://youtu.be/St1VRlvSWi0

My personal blog is at http://alandavidson.me/

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I been letting my cottage in Whitby to holidaymakers for just over 3 ½ years now and to be perfectly honest I found the whole procedure a great success and an enjoyable business. Most things in life tend to be not quite as good as you are expecting, but I found this not to be the case with this business, with the cottage has been almost total all year round right from the very beginning of letting it.

We leave a guest book in the cottage where people can handwrite their comments and I can honestly say there have been hardly any complaints, or shall we say to put it more nicely constructive criticism. Most people really look after the cottage and there has been virtually no problems or damages. And so because of this and never bothered to take a returnable bond from people like some of the other letting companies do, I’ve more or less left the process free and easy.

Whitby Holiday Cottages Guest Book

So I was surprised when I was sat having a meal last Saturday when I received an e-mail on my mobile telephone, with a list of complaints about the condition of my cottage and how unsatisfactory it was.

In fact there were also around 15 photographs showing these so-called dissatisfactions. I am being totally honest when I said my initial reaction was this is absolutely rubbish, you cannot have had literally hundreds of people staying in the cottage over a three year period with almost virtually any complaints whatsoever and with most people really enjoying their stay and then suddenly have one guest with list of about ten complaints, even typed in red to emphasise the fact!

When I looked at the photographs there was four shots of our kitchen blind bracket which was at an angle due to the fact one screw was missing on one side, even though I later found it still actually worked and pulled down okay.

The next set of photographs was the Queen Size bed quilt, it had a large patch of some mysterious clear looking fluid on it and also a double sided rip of about 6 inches wide! We’ve been using the same cleaner for almost two years now and we’ve got to know her very well she does a very good job and would certainly never have used a quilt with this kind of exaggerated rip.

Now in the case with these particular to guests, on the day they arrived the Monday I actually met them because I had been staying in my cottage myself. This isn’t normally the case because usually one guess goes out as another comes in and they get their keys from the key safe. This means that I knew for certain that that kitchen blind was perfectly okay because I had been using it for three days myself.

Also on the day of their arrival I call back to the cottage after the cleaner had finished to inspect it and they arrived around midday whilst I was there, which was two hours earlier than their permitted entrance time of 2 PM. I just greeted them told them it was fine to enter early and gave them directions to the car park for which we provide a free parking permit.

So when I thought about it and analysed their complaints I knew for certain that they were a set of manufactured lies.

In actual fact they had book the cottage two weeks earlier, due to late last-minute unfortunate cancellation and right from the very first communications Pauline and myself and had our suspicions about the character of the person booking it. The reason is he was making it very confusing saying he wanted to book 2 nights with me and then ringing up my partner and saying it actually booked four nights and then moving off the subject trying to confuse the facts. Pauline and phoned me up in Whitby to tell me this and so immediately telephoned the man up to make it totally clear on the phone that if you wanted four nights holiday rather than two he could have them because the cottage was available. I also offered him £30 reduction on the tariff due to the confusion, which when I considered it afterwards was actually caused by him!

So the gentleman finished off his e-mail by threatening to report my cottage to Whitby Tourist Information board and various other organisations like Trip Adviser. He went on to say that he was in charge of 18 hotels and knew what good accommodation should be kept like and that they had stayed for one night only on the Monday and then they had left because of the condition of the cottage to stay in a hotel. He offered to pay for one night only in wanted his money back to the other three nights when he supposedly had not stayed.

As soon as I contacted the cleaner she told me that on the following Friday, four days later she had arrived at the cottage one hour early than their official departure time which is 10 AM, just in case the people have left early and she immediately saw them still occupying the cottage with all their possessions still inside and so went to give them time to leave.

I then went on to contact the neighbours who confirmed that they had seen the couple coming and going during the week, is a particular Whitby yard you have to pass the first cottage in the cul-de-sac to get to mine. One of the neighbours had even seen the man loading up is On Friday morning, and said to him “I hope you had a nice time”? to which do man replied rather shift away “Yes but we haven’t stayed in the cottage” the neighbourhood immediately thought how strange I’ve seen them coming and going all week long!

I immediately sent the man an e-mail to tell them I would certainly not be refund in any money whatsoever and I would be going down to the cottage the following day to get a backup copy of my CCTV footage which is recorded on a digital video recorder in the attic, which is stamped with the time and date recording.

I also pointed out that if there had been any truth about not being satisfied with the accommodation, they should have contacted me immediately, especially if they intended to leave early, because the cottage could have been occupied by somebody else.

So what we have here is a pair of con artists who basically book themselves into some privately owned accommodation and then send a barrage of complaints and threats in an attempt to get most of their money back and have virtually free holiday.

The sad thing is that if people were not so confident about the condition of their accommodation, or they were new to this particular business, or just people who could be intimidated easily, I’m sure they would have refund of the money and the con artist would have got away with the scam.

Also when you look practically at Whitby some of the holiday cottages are located in isolated spots where there would be no neighbours to see whether the people have been actually occupying the accommodation. So it would be far more difficult to prove if the people that actually stayed in the accommodation.

I think it’s probably a little extreme that people in Whitby start going to the effort of having a CCTV camera and recorder fitted, because actually crime in this area is very well in comparison to Bradford where my CCTV and security alarm installation business is based.

When I first bought the cottage I had a large letting company from Scarborough come to view the property and he told me that he had over 100 cottages on its books in the area and none of them had a security alarm and CCTV and it wasn’t necessary, but in my case it did become useful a few years later!

I think they should apply for a job on TV presenting The Real Hustle!

www.adalarms.co.uk Est 1984 Specialists in Wireless Alarms and CCTV

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The good news is that there is going to be a replacement bridge across the pier which is going to made of metal which will not deteriorate but the only doubt is that people seem to be voicing was that how soon will this happen?

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To put it quickly and bluntly it’s like every other business in the world, it’s only successful if you’re willing to put the hard-working to make so.
I bought my first holiday cottage in October 2007 just as we were about to enter the recession and obviously because of that I paid much more than I would have done if I had waited because prices were going to plummet that nobody knew just at that moment in time as I was purchasing a property. A couple of months later the banks were collapsing and it was completely different world.

But looking on the positive aspects of the business venture, because I’m not independently wealthy I had to make sure that as much as possible my cottage occupancy will pay the mortgage and all the other related bills.
I’d dabbled in web design and various other aspects of the Internet but had never deeply gone into search engine optimisation subject, which is the process of getting your website high up the listings so, it can achieve more traffic. But I quickly realised that if I needed to market my property on the Internet efficiently and without the extremely high cost of paper advertising I needed to understand the subject quickly and efficiently.

So probably the most beneficial aspect of the whole thing has been I’ve learnt this subject quite deeply and it’s helped me to make sure my holiday cottage occupancy rate is well over 90% throughout the entire year. In fact I’m now at the point where I’m ready to buy a second cottage when prices are at the lowest they have ever been and there are even rumbles of a second dip in the UK economy and problems globally in the financial markets.
You might think that this is a little risky but I truly think that because I’ve set up such a network of Internet traffic and my website receives such good volumes of potential customers I’m even starting to like cottages for other owners and starting my own holiday letting agency in Whitby.

Through the process of search engine optimisation I have also applied it to my main business website which is about installation of CCTV and security alarms, which is my bread and butter business that I’ve been involved in for almost 30 years.
So whether it’s harder letting or whatever the business if you need more customers my advice to you would be too immersed yourself in search engine optimisation and treat this as an important extension of your business.

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The thing is that there be no planning and when I watched a film back you can actually see the phone me jumping up and down and huffing and puffing around Whitby, but am putting it online I just hope it doesn’t look so horrendously unprofessional. At the time I thought I will bother try to keep the phone steady I’ll just make it look like an authentic walked a bit different to the usual polished type of film you tend to see good at the end of the day it was just a case of me legging it up and down the health of Whitby whilst spouting a little bit of information that I have gleaned about the place.

The funny thing about making walking tour is that I spend 50 minutes walking around the town of Whitby and then spent three hours messing about with the software and putting the subtitles on. It was only a spur of the moment idea that suddenly took up a bit more time than anticipated! I hope some people find it useful.

I did a film about Whitby in 2010 and it’s been actually quite well received, it’s usually positioned at the top of you tube is listing for the single word Whitby and it’s about 5000 hits just over this year, but I did put more effort into that one here is the link.

Sometimes people take things too seriously they spent ages polishing all aspects of their production but I just thought I’d go for the amateur look, which suits my technical abilities but awfully some people will find this of interest and skim through the film to see bits of the town that they’re interested in and it does give you some idea if you’ve never been to Whitby or have not been there for a long time etc.

The only nice thing was that when I use the software because the film is almost one hour long I tried a few times and it kept defaulting the leaving sections of the film silent so I ended up having to mess about just get it to work with sound all the way through!

My god technology sometimes drives one around the bend

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When I set off for the event I was using my Samsun Galaxy S walking satellite navigation and I had been told by the owner of the hotel I was staying in it would take me about 15 minutes’ walk, it to me more like 45 minutes flat out on a hot day carrying my camera equipment so I wasn’t too pleased when I got there sweating like a dog.

I had been told to get there 30 minutes before the event because I was asked if I could conduct a little interview with Sir Roger but unfortunately it was looking touch and go as to whether I would get it because there were so many people about 300 were going to have their DVD box signed by Sir Roger and time was very limited.

I was taken into a room where they said they would let me know when I could meet Sir Roger and suddenly it was all go, I was ushered into the room and I was trying to get my tripod and camera equipment setup when suddenly Marie France who works on the official website suddenly pushed past me elbowing me out of the way and basically obliterated my camera angle! There was nothing for it I had no choice but to completely move my camcorder but luckily the management moved the woman out of the way and I managed to get my interview before it was too late. I asked a few questions which I think the majority people will not have asked, they were more personally interesting to me because they involved Roger’s involvement with Pearson and Foster’s mill in Bradford near to where I live. Celebrities must get sick to the back teeth of being asked the same questions over and over again, I was thinking it’s best to try and think of something different.
 

 
The only problem with these kind of events is there’s just too many “fans”, I know that sounds silly but if you look at it realistically Sir Roger does a very fine job for UNICEF as a special ambassador, but the majority of these people are there because they are fans of his acting work and what can you say an actor, is an actor not God! I bet that Sir Roger will feel the same, he is a very self-deprecating gentleman who in this charming way keeps the fans happy even though deep down I bet he feels the same it’s all a lot of silliness over nothing.

If I was an actor or celebrity I’m sure I would hate some of the silly frantic behaviour that some of the fans exhibit.

Although I do maintain Sir Roger and the much missed Tony Curtis should be very proud of their excellent work on-screen in The Persuaders, they were fantastic together.#

I couldn’t have missed the event because I did love the program when it was first released when I was a teenager and of course since then I been lucky enough to interview Tony Curtis and meet him on quite a number of occasions and I have the pleasure of being Sir Roger Moore’s web manager, but having said that in some ways I’m not a big fan of these kind of events.

It was an enjoyable event and I think the best part of the evening was the interview on stage with Sir Roger which was conducted by Barry Norman who you’ll remember used to be the presenter of Film Night.

Barry Norman did an excellent job along with some very interesting and amusing answers from Sir Roger and It is probably the most comprehensive interview about the program that Sir Roger has ever undertaken.

I wasn’t given any privileged access to film, but I asked the management if I could have a spot near the front of the stage and they commented that I could if there was one.

So I took my own initiative and rather than going to the back of the room where everybody was heading because the front area was full I went straight to the front and selected the only seat left which was tucked away in one corner and perfect for filming. unfortunately I couldn’t put the tripod down as I was near the entrance of the door but nevertheless I think I’ve got a very good quality film of the interview.

So if you like The Persuaders / Sir Roger I will be posting it online soon because I was lucky enough to film it on my HD camcorder from the front of the stage.

The following day I was going to Johnny Goodman’s house who was in charge of production of the program The Persuaders and he was absolutely excellent. Very down to earth extremely interesting and did a great interview on film, which I will also put online in the future.

Well thank goodness that’s the celebrity event over for a while back to the normal people who produce results every day without all the fuss!

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All the people were waiting at the top of the East side cliffs to see the Read Arrows

 Even in these recessional times it was they say over the weekend of the Regatta in Whitby. 

This is a little HD film I took of the Whitby Regatta during the three days of the event. 

We arrived on the Saturday and the people don’t like crowds obviously it’s not much fun but in short bursts it’s quite exciting to see the throngs of people milling about. The funny thing is that it’s probably the only day of the year when every single fish and chip shop down the side of the harbour has a long queue. I was stood waiting so long waiting for my fish and chips with this woman in her 60s who was covered head to toe in leathers as she was a biker even at that age, we practically became best friends, I promise spent more quality time talking with that her  husband as all year !

In fact the fish shop nearly did me a favour, by the time I was served starvation and kicked in and I was losing the weight I had been trying to lose all year. Pauline and myself sat down on the benches to eat at last  and enjoyed watching a West Indian gentleman with the beemy face being harassed by the seagulls even before he got his meal! Although he was to say the least rather jumpy by nature. The best part for me was a little later when he finally did receive is ever desired fish and chips which he was about to enjoy with his wife and two children when guess what, one of those dreaded seagulls planted a perfectly aimed shit straight into his meal, talk about laugh the poor guy ended up having to share bits from his family’s portions.

On the Sunday there was a big display of vintage cars on the Westcliffe, and I really did enjoy that even though I’m not a big car fanatic but I think what’s nice about this is you do remember some of the older models and it gives you a sense of nostalgia and in a way in that section where all the cars are you have diverse number of  vehicles and owners. When you get to speak to some of the people that  restored  these beloveds vehicles there is such a cross-section of people in ages all with a good story about how they came to possess their beloveds vehicle on what great lengths to have gone to bring  it back to there former glory.

Later that day there was the most fantastic display by the Read Arrows and it was much better than I’d remembered from a few years ago they really were spectacular and it seemed to gone far a good 15 minutes, this has  been tinged with sadness when the following Saturday on 209th August a 26-year-old pilot died while flying one of the red arrows over Bournemouth.

I would really have love to stay till 10 PM on Monday and watched a fantastic firework display but unfortunately I couldn’t stay I had to get back home as I had work commitments the following day. 

I’ve never actually state in Whitby during the Folk Week, but I bet it’s very good becouse this Sunday morning the week after the Whitby Regatta I got a phone call from a rather posh sounding older lady who had seen my Endeavour Whitby Holiday Cottage  on the Internet while she was staying in the town and she wanted to book it for the following year. I said to why don’t you take a stroll and have a look at the cottage in the yard and then if you want to book it ring me back, which she proceeded to do. The funny thing is that the people that are actually staying in it at the moment rang me up 10 minutes later after her phone call to tell me she’d been and they just wanted to re book the cottage for the following year before she could Then about one hour later of course she ran up and I had to inform her that because she told them her intentions they had been to the booking, she should have kept their mouths shut. 

But both the posh lady and the people staying on my cottage both said a much they were enjoying the Whitby Folk Week, I must try and make it next year

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