Whitby Krampus
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Canyoudigit
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Little corner of paradise Whitby especially in the winter when it's nice and quiet.
Norman_Conquest
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I feel Whitby is one of them places that we have now lost to the tourists and due to the sheer number of visitors has lost some of its charm. We use to love a pleasant Sunday drive over the moors, a quiet walk around the cobbled streets, and fish in chips in any one of the restaurants.
Now, I feel you are fighting the visitors. It is good for business, but I wonder how many of the locals would like their town back.
If you are visiting Whitby, the train is the way to travel.
Keelo
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This....it's fcucked
sweet_left_foot
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No idea that happens. Sounds great fun
dooderooni
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I blame Draclear.
go-nads!
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Went with the little legs on the train Easter time, never against n, train there got packed with Boro types pre-loading for a day on the lash. Trains n back got cancelled so got the bus back which strangely was much more civilised.
Wouldn't care but I'd driven from Marske to Boro thinking the train would be a little bit more of a day out.
locomansimon
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but you were part of the problem, a visitor making the place crowded, PS I live there.
alanmoodysdog
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and take people from Pickering to Whitby on the steam train
Norman_Conquest
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That's the only thing, you are trapped with the uncivil idiots.
I thought that when I read my post back
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BobUpnDown
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did Whitby on the train the other week £8.10 return, very good.
Redwurzel
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Whitby probably gets 10 times as many visitors as it used to say in the early 1970s.
The holiday season was Easter and Whitsun Break and mid June to Mid September - outside those dates it was very quiet. I knew a woman with a shop there and she only rented it for 6 months of the year. The other 6 months she could leave her stuff in, but didn't pay rent adn it was not open open.
In 1970 a holiday home/cottage was rare now its a third? of the properties, in some parts of the area its over 90%. The ones that were holiday properties were not rented out commercially. There was no dracula/goth stuff. There was no marina till the late 1970s and the new bridge was not opened till 1980. The roads to Whitby were poorer in the easrly 70s (no Guisborough by pass, Slapwath was not as it is now, no Malton by pass or York by pass), the winter weather was worse with more snow and ice, there were no steam trains past Grosmont and no Sunday service in the winter from Middlesbrough, there was no HeartBeat TV series, cars were less reliable and less comfortable, people get less time off work and petrol was expensive after 1973 about £2/litre and cars only got 30 mpg opposed to 48 mpg now.
Its been a two edged swords for locals - they have seen their property go up x28 times since 1975 and Whitby prices are the most expensive for 40 miles around instead of being the cheapest. There is more to do in the Town and many more jobs (when I was looking for work in 1984 male unemployment was 33%), but its a fight to get a parking space and frustrating to deal with the crowds. It must be almost impossible for young people to buy a property as they need to pay around £180k and wages are £9.50/hour/£17k a year, without alot of family support. There are not many professional style jobs in Whitby.
Whitby has not lost its charm, but it has been diluted in the centre of the Town. Of course new visitors don't know any difference.
The holiday season was Easter and Whitsun Break and mid June to Mid September - outside those dates it was very quiet. I knew a woman with a shop there and she only rented it for 6 months of the year. The other 6 months she could leave her stuff in, but didn't pay rent adn it was not open open.
In 1970 a holiday home/cottage was rare now its a third? of the properties, in some parts of the area its over 90%. The ones that were holiday properties were not rented out commercially. There was no dracula/goth stuff. There was no marina till the late 1970s and the new bridge was not opened till 1980. The roads to Whitby were poorer in the easrly 70s (no Guisborough by pass, Slapwath was not as it is now, no Malton by pass or York by pass), the winter weather was worse with more snow and ice, there were no steam trains past Grosmont and no Sunday service in the winter from Middlesbrough, there was no HeartBeat TV series, cars were less reliable and less comfortable, people get less time off work and petrol was expensive after 1973 about £2/litre and cars only got 30 mpg opposed to 48 mpg now.
Its been a two edged swords for locals - they have seen their property go up x28 times since 1975 and Whitby prices are the most expensive for 40 miles around instead of being the cheapest. There is more to do in the Town and many more jobs (when I was looking for work in 1984 male unemployment was 33%), but its a fight to get a parking space and frustrating to deal with the crowds. It must be almost impossible for young people to buy a property as they need to pay around £180k and wages are £9.50/hour/£17k a year, without alot of family support. There are not many professional style jobs in Whitby.
Whitby has not lost its charm, but it has been diluted in the centre of the Town. Of course new visitors don't know any difference.
asredastheycome
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So you like to go to Whitby as a tourist but don't like others doing same as it gets too crowded for you.
Muttley
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Without the hordes of tourists, the town would be bereft of shops and cafes, you can't have one without the other. I will be spending a few days there this week and in the middle of the week it will be pretty deserted. I like it that way, most of the shops close at about three some are still open at four, but you can get into any of the cafes when you want to and walk the streets and beeches at your leisure. It looks like the weather will be challenging but the Yorkshire coast in December aint summer in St Tropez...