Show 0 L I 1 D ink t V 11 4 4 64 N 14 scotch classies lassies work at whitby during fishing season r ri ord d by N Nat loial G R ahlo ai ty w ly J sri lit by time whitby M climbing tile cliffs of tile the coith isa coast to ell it lias has clung for centuries dras drafts many visitors torr who ae 87 a e lured by tie the at mo sphere r e of old I 1 angland most of the old part of the town as it biti hundreds of y ars ara ago dominated by the parish church st marys built in 1100 and the famous ruins of 0 whitby ab bey today roday holtby la Is a fishing port only and its real belong to the past to the das da a of tile old saxon monastery of bt hilda and caedmon to the das oi 01 the great synod in cco when saxon kings and the leading ecclesiastical lights of the land met with pomp and circumstance cum stance to settle the vexed ques tion of it the date of basler to the day days i of wooden ships anti anil wooden ship when whitby was fifth port in england and tier her sturdy oak built ships were famed w biroas ross the senen eeten seas to the das dabs when whitby was one of the liter chief bases of tile the greenland Green lant whaling industry and book and scoresby silted from tile the port on their exciting enter arises to tile the days daks when 1 IM men were regularly employed mining and carving jet a black semi pic pice clous ail mineral and twice tice this number were ere engaged in the alum industry along the coast there Is no now noni at the dawn of the great iron age mollia of the yards guined to lion hon it and n 1 I many one screw steamers steamer hii io built ork the lie stocks which then illicit allm d the upper hilbor lint but the shallow ness of that tit at till abor and a nd the distance JI at ince front froni foundries and lolling mills were nere fatal handicaps and found annihilating in the boits of the ikes ices find and an lyric tie iho alum aluin liel let with tile dI discovery sLavery of a n cl method of production ancient crooked streets I 1 ahe he old towns town B streets tire are tortu ous and narrow narron the lamog of tl tie e chief ones and I 1 lower gate suggest that they eie built will tile re were ere no traffic problems em there 1 Is 13 3 documentary e el lence of tapir ext existence tence in the Four fourteenth fourteen teet th century Flower gite gate clemts down tile lie slope of the est cliff baxter gate runs parallel to the doaks A steel briage abrl ige originally original lv a woolen di drawbridge aw bridge conducts its tin file to the past east side of tile the link bor and here Is the quilly ancient quit een eden narrower nari ower murch church street i again running parallel to the I 1 nr ar bor and leading to the foot of th the e famous too steps stepi which mitch till the fait ful fill must to attend worship I 1 in n the parish church st mitry s g whitby in tie the shopping g renter center for a tile ide rural area its shops are chicag in the two main streets and lis 1 marlet arlet backs off hurch street st rt file fhe market marget da dai Is katurd ir 17 stirly in the morning the farmer arrhe in their neat little traps with ith baskets of butter ggs chickens curds filling for the famous lork ork chlio chee trussed geese rabbits and the like in church street aro the shops of the jet and fossil dealers jet la Is fossil ize I 1 ii wood into carbon it Is found in beds known as jet which crop out in sev era along the coast it des not occur in seams like coal but in isolated pockets which make inake its mining a speculative business A men man might dig for months find and nt not find a handful A rocket locket how eer when hen tile trade was nw if ID its he hei daiy diy 1 ly might hae bale ben korth any aliv thing up to 0 0 there la ro mining rii mi what hat craftsmen craft quien are left debeni 1 for their supplied on oil the tha longshoremen long foremen who aho colket the bits washed out of tile the clita or from submarine espilo along its lt jet Is distinctive while mille there la Is opinion re garding the meals of let jet as a me file daum for the true artist it har in sl si tred er cri fine ian an I 1 or J al ai 0 ir 1119 it Is easy to w n k an aal I 1 tikes 0 a lo 10 ely cly pit pil I 1 h as different dlf Terent from the glab of glass and lillan alon jet as a hi pich of chap lur re Is from the patina of n R len ien ulm elpie e of anne annc NI are re amr while hile jet la Is found OR els when I 1 notably in spain holtby jt li Is dis e mast of the famous c ra craftsmen rafts rt men m are dead and thare re lias hits blen bt en a tendency for their successors som to keep the standardized designs I 1 ut hero here ond find there one or of them thein will show a flash of oi tv fin aal I 1 hope endures that the pendulum of 0 aih ton ion will swing back the fossils which form ta tie e see sec ond bow of the whitby jet dealers havo have a more strictly scientific in terest the atie cinn commonest ionest la is the a am bonite it ts found in immense pro fusion along tho the entire coast lut from the geologist a point of view its most interesting aspect Is its ex tra ordinary variety rile ammon ite of course was nag a 9 marine aminia belonging to the family of squids and octopuses oct opuses its nearest exist ing relative Is the nautilus the ammonite which Is part lell barly abundant on the rocks rocki at the foot of the abbey cliff chir lits has given give rise to an interesting legend h still finds credence among whitby fisher folk they belleve believe it to DB be the petrified rec remains of a snake It rarely arely lioN however Never la is a specimen found with its hend head intact the iho story goes that in the day dabs a of st hilda the district suffered buffered front from it a plaue plague of aayers lie ile holy lady wa prevailed pre kalled upon to use tie her indu enle ence against them with ith the result that first their heads nei play off and then their badi 9 were ero turned into stone stolle cottages of the tha Fla harmen from the mat mall 1 ts la of N NOY 1 ion erg 1 to C churila hit rii street and thence finn sl SI luner inner iett Sand sandgate gate ite acil au J st inn nn B r on lanes tn twist lit among the 0 I 1 cottages contag a or leal to watery eatery duld enli IN c fire are built in ill ain anning icing confusion onH islon one lias has tho the that thi must have hae pushed ali II 11 ii solves up fashion fr ill the ground whenever ulieno er space pae they have hae no gardam have hant with lew lea excel no liv li v ive into their nell b I 1 a or uon blown ii his stilt seikh 6 11 itcy ey are li leoer oer all built on oil one koneval ilan llan which fildi gives a kit tell a best room budronis bed ronis and an attic ind build ers e rs etoie eie fill all nien men of tie sea io FI day it Is 19 chiefly tie mo live like in them b arven erk the bilili tind tit at hilby has suf suffered feied imre than HI bit ordinary late of PLon mile v ll Isi tude old residents of tile the town tonn can remlin ber the little whon nhon in sunnier Bini nier lir 1 ir ing the I 1 eight of the north sia her ring leason eagon the harbor harbo nas a fr fir of 0 mass and nd chev have hae seen i t time nl when ilia fill union ling of a solitary li arii drifter ere abed a sens sensation atlon rile herring trade has vanished alit tint th it si BI arit with ith out i which no in hiser an tirl thrive e his hig remained alive alike in 0 t p abrl is 0 s nr nf tile the sturdy pipii nip tl ari i th i t int hit of late vuirl tar pei 4 i revival IN ill in ti tie e rab it n J I 1 in hopr r pr tr li coble a fine sulf boat tim alac bev view t tho I 1 t lie harbor so leaned t t i i rs a I 1 11 I 1 rs w ii li i t bt bo c 11 NN wit lit ti tin 11 ff itt ift moored hard if i to tn t verv pry threshold of tile t s ut m the lot t p ts ti t i kni hii i dm i 1118 tho i i ts s on polea pole to dry 1 IT t n I 1 0 dmm the groups of 1 i i g I 1 tannel ruen men bit busa id i lr ir i i ar gossiping sin 1 I f r it 1 c ni ti a e p 0 old d white lierl I 1 i i i but 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