I went to Whitby

I visited Whitby in North Yorkshire for the first time.
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[@waynethornton6795]

Hi Stephen, me and the wife watch your videos regularly and on 9 minutes and 32 seconds in this video you stood in the exact spot that we scattered my dad’s ashes. I haven’t had chance to visit there for 12 months so thank you for this video it was nice to see it so up close ❤

[@albin2232]

Me and Stephen watch you and your wife all the time. You need to close you blinds when you... Well you know....

[@JAJL667]

The only fossil you will find on Blackpool beach will be on a deck chair! Fantastic photo of the rainbow over the Tower in Feb 24 calendar.

[@shirleysmith1713]

Good video Stephen. Not been to Whitby for years. Thanks for showing 👍🏻😀☀️

[@JasonYeo-jj3sb]

Wow nice one steve u showed some nice places of Whitby to-go to very nice day for you it was windy wentcyou got to the top

[@dianemckill5708]

Lots of lovely little quaint shops and streets, would love to visit Whitby but the hills would kill me LOL. Thanks for another informative video Stephen,we call them crab/lobster pots up here.

[@gazellis1961]

Awesome video Stephen really love Whitby ..you've done a great job showing all the fine points of the harbour and the town in general. PS I'd back Whitby's seaguls against Blackpools any day....lol

[@jat2319]

Whale bones at 14:28 to the left. Great view from up there! If you time it correctly you can walk all the way on to Sandsend and back too. Charming little village.

[@K1110.]

Great Place To Look Around. 👍 🌬🌊⛵️

[@thetoonpiper]

I spend a lot of time in Whitby during the summer as it is just down the road from Me. I fell in love with Whitby when My late parents used to take me and My Sister there when we were children plus I am a big Gothic horror fan too with of Whitby being partly the setting in Stokers Gothic Horror novel Dracula, Stoker stayed at a guest house on Royal Crescent Whitby, I do recall it was no 6 Royal Crescent although I could be wrong, he also spent a lot of time in the public Library and this is where he found a book about the principality of Walachia and in that book there was the mention of a certain Vlad Dracul. Yep I love Whitby, friendly people and Fish and Chips to die for from The Magpie Cafe. You should check out some of Frank Meadow Sutcliffes photos online Ste, some fantastic photos of everyday folk of Whitby back in the Victorian days you would love them.

[@therange4033]

Whitby Jet is famous. Its fossilised wood! They make jewelry out of it. Was used as a type of mourning jewelry. Also the seafood is yummy. I'm not a pie eater but a Scotch Egg with fresh-made English Mustard is my choice. Never buy a jar, get the powder and make the amount you want fresh! Its also cheaper and lasts longer (the powder) What lovely kids! What a beeoootiful blue sky! I hope they keep a Cardiac Arrest gizmo at the top of those steps! Thank you Stephen!

[@kevanparker908]

Dear Stephen I think the things you are calling old lamp posts are capstans used for hauling in the old sailing ships. Normally seen today on the decks of ships such as car ferries, they just use to loop a rope around them and the pier hands would put spars into the square holes and turn them hauling in the rope and the ship.

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks for the info 🙏

[@judithmorganjudyteen]

Aww those kids were so polite and i loved how you interacted with them. Guess what, here's another subscriber. 😂❤

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks Judith.

[@jasongray4517]

Got VERY, VERY lucky with the weather. Love Whitby. Bags of character. Heaving during the summer months though

[@no2embish]

Ha ha people in Lytham say ‘I didn’t know I was so unfit until I moved to N.Yorkshire

[@martintaylor5879]

Love Whitby you must return during the Goth weekend full of character and history and a trip on the old lifeboat

[@denisebell8422]

I lived there for 12 months with my late husband up on West cliff in the Metropole hotel beautiful place lovely people ❤

[@bigprob8744]

Ya visit whitby ya can't help but love the place, I need to get back there soon 👌

[@jonnosmadworld8275]

Crab pots or lobster pots, great video, I've always wanted to visit Whitby, might have to book a couple of nights there!

[@iiredeyeiiredeye1569]

Had a fab weekend away sea fishing with friends in Whitby back in the 90's. Nice to see the Angel Hotel is still going, they looked after us really well. Lovely staff back then.

[@baronessdiannesealand5847]

I’m glad you finally got to Whitby and have enjoyed looking around. The things on the pier that you questioned are capstans . They were used to haul sailing ships in and out of the harbour so they could catch the wind and raise their sails.

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks for the info 🙏

[@stephendonkin5497]

This was a good watch Stephen hope you return for another 👍

[@garth8979]

Lovely... Pity about all the zombie bobblehats. It's like watching 'Day of the Triffids, but swap killer plants for his and hers matching Millets Cagoules.

[@kkrispy2009P]

Great vlog and visit Stephen. Thanks 4 sharing a different place

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks kkrispy 👍

[@paulrobert8842]

Hi Stephen. To me a very interesting video. I come from Middlesbrough and we holidayed all my childhood years at Whitby.n Interesting to see things that did not exist 70 years ago in Whitby, like the jet museum in what was the Methodist chapel. I admire your vigour, you covered in the space of a day the different parts of Whitby. For me it would be one day on the old side, another on the pier, another in the town and a fourth on the West Cliff. I lived and worked the end of my life in New Brunswick Canada and am now in a care home over here. Paul Stockill

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks for watching.

[@billmorris8358]

17:07 Bothams is my favourite bakers…..ever! And they do fabulous online hampers……love to give them a shout

[@ellenkellett6529]

Hi Stephen what a great video of whitby love it there the fish and chips are the best

[@pixusphotographic]

The baskets are lobster pots. Trenchers restaurant is an award winning fish and chips, I think the best place to go for your hippie needs.

[@robertbrown5753]

Hi Stephen glad you enjoyed your visit to the east coast Whitby in particular being an historian not just Blackpool but in general you seem to really appreciate it hope you come back maybe with the macmaster lol

[@DavidDunning-m3v]

Hi Steven hope you well been too Whitby quirky little place lovelly little shops great video ❤❤

[@hamshackleton]

8.53 - not old lamp-posts, they were windlasses, or winches from before engines. the rectangular holes had poles inserted, then a rope was looped round the column, and men walked round and round pushing the poles, to wind the rope in. - - -

[@lindadavies7292]

I’ve been to Whitby many times but wouldn’t go again at the height of the summer Season. I think everyone visiting had the same idea. Come 11am the streets were terribly crowded.

[@Silverlady57-h2d]

Beautiful Whitby there called lobster pots Stephen ..there’s loads of nooks and crannies in Whitby little gennels that leads to the beach or cottages .. I’ve been waiting for this video thank you 🙏🏻

[@jeanwalker3752]

Hi Stephen, I just wanted to say this was a great video showing all the good and interesting aspects of Whitby, it was a pleasure to watch. Thank you so much, we have been to Whitby many times and it never loses its olde worlde charm. Xxxx

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Many thanks!

[@lykewakewitch9026]

One of the graves at the top of the steps has the name Swales on which was the name of Draculas first victim. Lovely video, glad you enjoyed your time here ❤

[@junehall7649]

I adore Whitby. I've been visiting for over 40 years. I'll never tire of this beautiful, historic, fishing harbour & town. Not forgetting the surrounding areas too. 😊

[@fredaredfern6670]

Very interesting Steven as I have never been to Whitby thank you so much xx

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@karenbiddle1484]

What a lovely walk round, not been for 20 years, think I’ll have to visit again, especially out of season as summer is way to busy Thanks for doing a grand job😎

[@wendyjones2351]

Hi Stephen thank you for another great video as always what an amazing place that is lots of historic buildings absolutely beautiful some fantastic looking chippy too have a great evening xx

[@davidpendry7731]

Good to see you exploring more or your own country. Whitby is a gem It’s challenging to climb all those steps and inclines. Being a You Tuber is more difficult than most would imagine and you have with experience excelled.

[@maliceinpunderland5869]

Another great video Stephen, thank you. Never been to Whitby but always fancied it.... Maybe try and cover their famous goth weekend, when it's on?

[@Gail-o3f]

Never been hope you enjoyed

[@Christina-ge3xr]

OMG…I would go crazy in Whitby with all those shops! I love to window shop and I would need a week in town just to see everything. Thank you for a lovely visit, Stephen 😊

[@mildredschulz]

Hi Stephen. Thank you very much for your great video from Whitby. I’ve been there a few times. It’s a lovely place. Weather looks gorgeous lovely blue sky 😎❤️👍

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks Mildred.

[@donlogan9158]

Great video Steve. Try and go during Goth Weekends ,either April or November. Cheers Don+Jen.

[@davidemmerson7072]

Great vlog. Nice to see the Royal Hotel again. Me and my brother used to run up those steps effortlessly….45 years ago 😂

[@racheljohnson9687]

Welcome to my neck of the woods. Glad you liked it 👌 when yoh go back I'll give you some tips you need to visit the villages of Staithes, Robin Hoods Bay & go up into the Yorkshire Dale's to visit the village of Goathland ( the home of the TV show Heartbeat 👍 now the accent is interesting because if you met me you would automatically assume I was a Geordie but I'm not. Being from the south of County Durham. I actually live only 9 miles from the North Yorkshire border, so I do have a bit of a Yorkshire twang ( but you'd only notice that if you were well versed to the differences to the accents in the Northeast 👍👌

[@Finglesham]

I call those baskets Lobster Pots. Whitby Abbey 's foundation goes way back to Anglo/Saxon days. Hilde of Whitby held a Synod in 664 at which the church had to decide on which date to hold Easter. They chose the Roman date rather than the Irish one. Great firm very interesting but not many folk about.

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks for the info 🙏

[@janobyrne2424]

Thank you for an interesting video Stephen, it's a lovely place and I'm glad you are going back in the summer. Some of the buildings are beautiful and the old fashioned shops remind you of times gone by. Loved the stunning views and the sound of the sea. 😊😊😊

[@belong53]

I was there 3 days ago, stayed at the Resolution Hotel, Had lunch at the Magpie. A great trip

[@alansmith9166]

Check out royal fish and chips.. you will love it... Alan from Woodstock Canada... cheers!

[@davidholt4950]

Dracula is buried at the Abbey...🦇🧛.... simply Reds 1980s video.. Holding back the Years was filmed in Whitby with Mick Hucknall

[@scott24679554]

Looks lovely Stephen great video mate, I will be having a visit there this summer it’s takes about 3.30 hours from cleveleys …. Deffo book a b&b and have a good look around, from watching this video looks amazing…

[@nicolawright3359]

You captured some fabulous views of the sky, sea, the town and coastline. You were lucky getting a sunny day to visit, as we have had so much rain in the North East recently. Enjoyed watching your walk around Whitby. Hope you enjoyed your pie and cakes from Bothams 😊

[@TheBorzoilover]

Gosh you must have been exhausted with all that walking and hill climbing, i would like to visit as one of my great grandparents came from Whitby.

[@dang1086]

The things on the pier were for warping (winching)ships out of the harbour mouth when the wind was blowing the wrong way back in days of sail.

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks.

[@rosscol1164]

You missed the Whale Bones!!! You were sat in front of them on video at 15:10 by the James Cook statue (that was over one shoulder, whale bones over the other!!), great weather for Jan!

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

How could I have missed the whale bones!!!

[@michaelstaunton1632]

Best of luck with everything and all the best with the channel 👍👍👍

[@stephenfinney5593]

Whitby has been visited by the chatter guys and Grimm life collective , great seaside town , plenty of history , Captain cooks ship was called endeavour which was inspector Morse's middle name

[@PeterMonaghan-jn3lu]

I lived and worked in Eastbourne years ago Stephen check out beachy head lighthouse and the town and South downs very good place nice and clean south coast there anyway

[@cuddywifter8386]

Aye, Middlesbrough North Yorkshire/Teesside, thanx for the call out, we're from Boro.

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

No worries

[@claire3337]

Those kids were so lovely and polite. Great video Stephen :)

[@sharonellis8776]

This was a nice look around. Glad that you mentioned Dracula xx

[@teddyshepherd2854]

.Great video Stephen. Like yourself I had no idea what the place looked liked, so thanks for that. But I tell you one thing boy, given I don't live in the UK anymore, I could have bitten your hand off when you flashed the pork pie.

[@billmorris8358]

29:39 this jet museum, last time l visited was a craft market,

[@hazelmanship7516]

Absolutely fantastic vlog, lovely place lots of history and the quaint streets and shops lovely to walk round, Fab shots from the pier, loved the abbey too and you ought to go inside the church next time,its beautiful, only problem with whitby in the summer it gets packed and we found not many places to sit and chill,it was a scorching hot day too. Look forward to your next vlog when you go back, loved it thanks 👍 x

[@lloydevans1552]

Welcome to our town! Well done for having a wonder and not just making another fish and chips video, as so many have done in the past. Had you picked up on the swing bridge/Blackpool Tower connection before visiting?

[@garethvaughan426]

Great vlog Stephen, you missed the Whale bone arch next to Capt Cook, and Botham famous Whitby lemon buns, they are gorgeous 👍😎

[@nigelstringerNVS]

Great videos Stephen, your out of condition lol , not many hills in Blackpool like Whitby.

[@billmorris8358]

15:29 Ive always wanted to stay at that hotel on the corner of that terrace! (The Royal) I went to Whitby once staying at a B&B just to the left of that terrace, East Terrace. And l recall going from up there, down onto the quay, via those steps and slope you came up, which if im not mistaken is actually called Khyber Pass, along the harbour, across the swing bridge, to a restaurant just opposite the building on stilts thats called the town hall. But the only difference from your visit we did this walk at night in the most ferocious arctic blizzard of a snowstorm. After our meal, the snow was almost a foot thick! And l thought it rarely snowed by the sea!

[@paulinefraser4097]

Loved this Stephen what a great tour guide you are 👍 I’ve been to Whitby twice and it’s gorgeous and I’ve climbed all those steps to the Abby😮‍💨 😅😂 but you showed different areas I have not seen and the beach 🏖️ we definitely have to go back 😁 great job and love that you’re touring around and taking us with you 👍take care and until next time Pauline from Blackpool living in Canada 🍁

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks Pauline.

[@sarahillingworth2718]

It's expensive, but I love Whitby 👍

[@robocarroll3561]

Hi Steven rob o’carroll Howard plant business partner here There is another you tuber simply Whitby he recommended botham bakery for the pork pie too Should try mitchel butcher on lytham road at junction of hi field rd early on sat morning. Home made pork pie still warm from cooking and amazing scotch egg too trust me go try them but better early on when not long out of the oven You met me about a year ago at Bond Street car park Go try some fish and chips in Whitby while your there they are the real deal

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks Rob.

[@denisebell8422]

There's a plaque on the wall on royal crescent where Bram stoker wrote Dracula

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

I'll look that up for next visit.

[@richardbennett7171]

We drove past you on Friday as you were filming on the opposite side of the road to bothams bakery! I said to the Mrs that it was you and I watch your videos. We drove around the block so I could speak to you but you had disappeared. I've just watched your whitby video to see if you caught us on film driving past but you didn't! Anyway keep doing what your doing buddy👍

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

I must have hid down that alley to show what I bought lol

[@richardbennett7171]

@@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool yeah probably mate!

[@sandraknock2955]

Hi Stephen, I’m going to Whitby for a 12 day holiday end of June, might see you there. I haven’t been since I went there for a week school holiday since I was at Middle School.

[@jedlinnen6528]

Nice place

[@billmorris8358]

16:47, if your visiting, check out the Sutcliffe Gallery. Some amazing olfactory photographs of very old Whitby

[@SimonM-63]

👍👍👍

[@sandradowling4605]

Stephen? We have also never ventured to the East coast.....would you recommend as we love B'pool. Maybe not as much going on around there? We love the Hotel Sheraton with fab' entertainment .....erm..doubt we would get the same there. P.S..a Yorkshire accent (to me) is so flippin gorgeous. Haha I just love it x

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

West is best, especially for sunsets!

[@billmorris8358]

If anyone ever goes to Whitby and a bit short of time, the tourist bus is always worth a try. It takes, drops and picks you up at various places of interest. Give it a go.

[@billmorris8358]

21:31 Lobster Pots I think are the official name!

[@juliewright-v3v]

thanks Stephen for another great video

[@toucheturtle1976]

No way, got to the gate of the Abbey then declared "not got time" 🙄 😂😂😂 I was looking forward to an armchair guided tour! Good stuff though👍

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Next time!

[@paulcgburrows7267]

Well done wot a credit to whitby them steps !!! Well done m8 a very nice advert aswell😅

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks Paul 👍

[@billmorris8358]

Great video Steve, loved that one

[@stuartt9132]

Great video. You've just scratched the surface of scarborough and whitby we were there last month.you should try whitby when it's goth weekend and krampus in December. Look them up.

[@alexplane5359]

Brilliant visual and educational video old fellow 👌 quality!!! Loved the Abbey bit when your counting, 1 aha 2 aha, was that from sesame Street and the Count adding up. Also witby brewery next to Abbey, wonder if they sell Bloody Mary's 🤔 Loved this, the whole thing was none stop quality. Mint 🫡

[@Goldie644]

Great video Stephen 👍 I'd call those things lobster pots 😉

[@martinwebb1681]

Looked a lovely day Stephen, pretty place but parking in the summer is a nightmare.

[@jasongray4517]

Good luck finding a parking space in August!

[@suedavies9061]

Great video love Whitby

[@billythedog-309]

Bothams is the best bakers l know and for hampers by post it's great value.

[@billmorris8358]

23:29 How often do they manoeuvre the swing bridge! Not as often as they used to, but often enough. Great to see!

[@redfunkyheart6767]

I'm a Yorkshire lass and i absolutely love Whitby its so quirky and full of history and character

[@guypickup4966]

Great views and magical atmosphere,have been to Whitby,best fish and chips,also a couple of years back Coldplay did a gig ,near the abbey,check it out !. thanks

[@jacksonpauljackson2557]

Love the place from the midlands❤

[@nervo6321]

Great vid mate…cheers.

[@gedruk]

Brilliant video. I love Whitby it has a big part in my and my family's lives I even came here on my honeymoon ! And as somebody in the comments also mentioned the walking up the hills kills me as well !!! There is 199 steps leading up to the abbey !

[@janetgilesrudland1028]

Absolutely loved this video Stephen what a fabulous and fascinating place Whitby is, the graveyard up near the Abbey is the place I love most ,you missed the massive whale bones up near the Capt Cooks monument ❤❤

[@junelaw4162]

Love Whitby a quaint little village bought back quite a lot of memories back when I was a child I was lucky enough to have a holiday there and my dad had no car parking charges not like it is today you pay wherever you go now North Sea doth blow as yep they say if that wind dropped it would be a lovely day gorgus view lovely old shops very enjoyable video till the next one 😊

[@billmorris8358]

25:38……thats the town hall! Just to the left as you first see it, is a great little cafe, great for lunches! The restaurant l mentioned earlier is just opposite the Town Hall, behind it as you look at it.

[@billmorris8358]

10:48 lve been to Whitby many times. And during the summer months theres a tourist motorboat which has been built to resemble The Endeavour Captain Cooks ship, which sails through this harbour mouth and goes out a mile into the North Sea, turns around and comes back in. To sea those piers from the water is an experience!

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

I thought that was a pirate ship at first!

[@rickytonks4906]

It sure does look great there keep wanting to go there but never end up going but I want to go but yh another great video