Whitby

Harbour town on the North Yorkshire coast, England, which appears in the reading as the setting of Dave Walker’s holiday week of coast walks, buses and a steam railway.

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Source	Author	Role	In one line
#005 Really interesting holiday photographs	Dave Walker	setting	Holiday week: coast path, buses, steam railway and ‘Whitby goth black’.

#005 Really interesting holiday photographs — Dave Walker (2024)

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We had a lovely time last week in Whitby, walking on the coast path, catching buses to various places (inexpensive), riding on the steam railway (really quite expensive), having lovely food and drink, and visiting as many entry-fee English Heritage sites as we could (OK… two) owing to having got English Heritage membership via Tesco Clubcard.

• Role: setting
• In the article: Walker spends a holiday week in Whitby, walking the coast path, riding buses and the steam railway and visiting English Heritage sites; his photos show fish-and-chip crowds at dusk, and the colour of the week is ‘Whitby goth black’.
• Why it matters: The town gives the issue its theme.