page_title: Whitby
section_title: Transport
hierarchical_section_title: Whitby / Transport
caption_attribution_description: [Whitby, Glaisdale, Beggars' Bridge, Yorkshire, England] [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. 1 photomechanical print&#160;: photochrom, color. Notes: Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J--foreign section, Detroit, Mich.&#160;: Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10457". Forms part of: Views of the British Isles, in the Photochrom print collection. Subjects: England--Whitby. Format: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Part Of: Views of the British Isles (DLC) 2002696059 More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.09089 Call Number: LOT 13415, no. 1102 [item]
context_page_description: Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Scarborough borough of North Yorkshire, England. Situated on the east coast of Yorkshire at the mouth of the River Esk, Whitby has a maritime, mineral and tourist heritage. Its East Cliff is home to the ruins of Whitby Abbey, where Cædmon, the earliest recognised English poet, lived. The fishing port emerged during the Middle Ages, supporting important herring and whaling fleets, and was where Captain Cook learned seamanship. Tourism started in Whitby during the Georgian period and developed with the arrival of the railway in 1839. Its attraction as a tourist destination is enhanced by the proximity of the high ground of the North York Moors national park and the heritage coastline and by association with the horror novel Dracula. Jet and alum were mined locally, and Whitby jet, which was mined by the Romans and Victorians, became fashionable during the 19th century.
  The earliest record of a permanent settlement is in 656, when as Streanæshealh it was the place where Oswy, the Christian king of Northumbria, founded the first abbey, under the abbess Hilda. The Synod of Whitby was held there in 664.
caption: Beggars' Bridge, c. 1890–1900
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