Visiting Whitby with Mina Murray
I thought it might be fun to add some photos to Mina's descriptions of Whitby. All photos from geograph.org, mostly from about 10 years ago. In some ways it hasn't changed much since 1897!
"The little river, the Esk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near the harbour."
"A great viaduct runs across, with high piers, through which the view seems somehow further away than it really is."
"The houses of the old town—the side away from us—are all red-roofed, and seem piled up one over the other anyhow, like the pictures we see of Nuremberg."
"Right over the town is the ruin of Whitby Abbey, which was sacked by the Danes"
"Between it and the town there is another church, the parish one, round which is a big graveyard, all full of tombstones."
"The harbour lies below me, with, on the far side, one long granite wall stretching out into the sea, with a curve outwards at the end of it, in the middle of which is a lighthouse. A heavy sea-wall runs along outside of it. On the near side, the sea-wall makes an elbow crooked inversely, and its end too has a lighthouse."
"At the end of it is a buoy with a bell, which swings in bad weather, and sends in a mournful sound on the wind." (I'm amazed that's still there).
"The steps are a great feature on the place. They lead from the town up to the church, there are hundreds of them—I do not know how many—and they wind up in a delicate curve; the slope is so gentle that a horse could easily walk up and down them."
And a final bonus - Mina doesn't mention anything about the train she arrived on, but it might have looked a bit like this:
(OK this locomotive is from 1937, but close enough)
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