Entries for the tag ‘Whitby’
📌 Town, port and parish on the east coast of North Yorkshire/the North Riding at the mouth of the River Esk. 
- 20 January 1536: Thomas Cromwell’s dissolvers of monasteries, Richard Layton and Thomas Legh, report allegations of whoring and theft by William Thirsk, Abbot of Fountains
- 9 August 1661: John Ray encounters kelp-makers on the coast between Scarborough and Whitby
- 7 April 1679: Catholic missionary Nicholas Postgate (80) speaks words of hope before being hanged, disembowelled and quartered at York on the false word of Titus Oates
- 12 September 1680: Francis and Mary Huntrodes are buried together at St. Mary’s, Whitby with a poetic epitaph
- 7 June 1703: A list of shares in ship-owning partnerships held by Samuel Pinder of Whitby on this date
- 30 April 1704: Whitby’s Church of England parish register records a wedding celebrated, perhaps illegally, at the Quakers Meeting
- 12 April 1706: The first four-day stage coaches from York to London and vice versa depart from the Black Swan in each city
- 13 June 1709: The population of Whitby are told when they may bury their dead
- 10 December 1710: A Whitby puppeteer tries to take revenge on a delinquent spectator
- 24 June 1761: A cat joins John Wesley’s street congregation at Robin Hood’s Bay
- 18 October 1765: Court-appointed experts order alum producers Samuel Howlett and John Mathews of Iburndale, Sleights, to clean up Whitby harbour and the Esk
- 26 May 1808: The first Ascension Day on which is generally contemplated the notion that ammonites found on Whitby beach are snakes petrified by Saint Hilda, and that seabirds dip their wings in her honour when over-flying
- 11 July 1858: In Whitby, Walter White buys a religious ballad printed at Otley and called ‘The railway to heaven’
- 13 July 1858: A visit to an alum works near Whitby
- 30 September 1859: Great popular enthusiasm for a village brass band contest at the Golden Lion, Loftus (NR)
- 25 May 1870: An Ascension Eve performance for tourists of the Whitby Penny Hedge ritual
- 1 January 1873: Sophia Constable (11) is given a 51-month custodial sentence for being party to the theft of a loaf from Francis Mackintosh at Whitby
- 11 August 1875: The Whitby town crier’s unique act for the municipal dog show
- 22 November 1884: The railway will not revive lead mining at Grassington, but may bring tourism to the Dales
- 16 December 1914: The Imperial German Navy’s official report on the bombardment today of Scarborough by the southern cruiser group under Rear Admiral Tapken
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