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HenryFort Bad Craziness - Wide Asleep at the Wheel
Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Total posts: 927 Location: UK Again Age: 43 Gender: Male |
 Posted: 02-10-2012 23:11 Post subject: fortean whitby |
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| hi all not normally one for chat ... but i wanted to ask if anyone had any recommendations of fortean places in whitby ... i have a teambuilding weekend this weekend and we are staying at a supposedly haunted pub the black horse ... ive never been before and aside from the dracula connection which i am looking forward to exploring the abbey are there any good psychogeographical locations ? theres also apparently a world music festival this weekend although that doesnt really boat my float im afraid - too catholic for that |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 05-10-2012 22:47 Post subject: |
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I hope the weekend goes well! I have fond memories of Whitby from a childhood holiday. Its seagulls were the loudest we had ever heard and the fish and chips excellent.
Lots of whaling stuff in the museum and I recall the giant jaw-bones that formed a gateway to a park(?) On the beach, we delighted in finding the jet pebbles, which seemed oddly exotic. Jet seems to have been appreciated more in olden times: the Victorians used it for mourning brooches, but it's probably too plentiful to be valued today.
I have not visited Whitby since childhood and I gather the decline of fishing has left many once-proud Yorkshire ports in a depressed state. I doubt if the Dracula connection alone is going to turn things around economically, alas!
That whole eastern coastline has a foreign feeling for me. born on the west coast. It is full of haunted corners but I've no detailed psycho-geographical details. Any natives around?
Let us know how the weekend goes!  |
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| HenryFort Bad Craziness - Wide Asleep at the Wheel
Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Total posts: 927 Location: UK Again Age: 43 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 06-10-2012 10:29 Post subject: |
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| apparentky the establishment we are booked into is haunted by a ghost monkey ... can vouch for the pubs after a long night on the tiles |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 06-10-2012 11:41 Post subject: |
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Went there a few years for a FT meet up. Really nice harbour town. The Abbey's great, very atmospheric. There was a fish & Chip shop voted best in England by the Daily Mail and well worth checking out.
Some nice bars. Went for a few beers with one of former FT regulars and had a great time. Well worth a visit. |
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| HenryFort Bad Craziness - Wide Asleep at the Wheel
Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Total posts: 927 Location: UK Again Age: 43 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 20-10-2012 18:51 Post subject: |
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| wow only just sobered up ! very quaint old town riddled with winding ginnels and alleys ... quite effective ghost walk ... although a bit run-of-the-mill for these i suppose ... a great time was had and the waitresses of whitby are safe once more |
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| BlackRiverFalls I wear a fez now.
Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Total posts: 8716 Location: The Attic of Blinky Lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 27-10-2012 11:26 Post subject: |
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There's a very odd looking Bottle Window at the back of 19 Grape Lane... you might need a Flickr login to see that pic.
The caption says:
| Quote: | | This is an 18th century grade II* listed building next to the Captain Cook museum but you can only see the window from the opposite side of the harbour. |
I was shown that as a child by Annie who ran the fruit and veg shop on Grape Lane, cira 80s as her back yard faced it, I forget what is there now and have no idea if asking nicely for them to let you through would work!
There is at least one 'traditional' hand of glory that seems to do the round of whitby museums, not sure where it is at this time though.
Something I will say is to visit the Abbey House site of what is now Whitby Youth Hostel... am not sure it's particularly fortean but I'm still astonished that I never realised it was there, for the amount of time I spent there growing up. |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 27-10-2012 14:03 Post subject: |
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| BlackRiverFalls wrote: | ...
Something I will say is to visit the Abbey House site of what is now Whitby Youth Hostel... am not sure it's particularly fortean but I'm still astonished that I never realised it was there, for the amount of time I spent there growing up. |
'T is a very swishy modern Hostel, these days. When I was there an old FT member was helping to run it. |
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| BlackRiverFalls I wear a fez now.
Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Total posts: 8716 Location: The Attic of Blinky Lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 27-10-2012 19:50 Post subject: |
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Weird, I was last there during folk week 2009... was that the same era?
prior to that I'd only been at the old site which was empty in 2009... still had the old curtains in the windows! |
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