Sorry children
Published Date:
01 July 2008
By staff copy
As an 'incomer' I spent more than 25 years helping to tell local children what a wonderful historic and interesting town in which they lived.
According to a recent Gazette, what I taught them about Whitby could possibly be completely incorrect.
We talked of the past wonderful fishing and boat-building industries and the jet industry patronised by none other than Queen Victoria.
Also of Britain’s most famous sailor and navigator James Cook.
He was apprenticed in Grape Lane and sailed in Whitby ships.
Perhaps the most famous of all was Saint Hilda who in her Abbey in 664AD hosted the Synod of Whitby which decided the date of Easter for all time.
I apologise to the youngsters of those days for giving them the wrong information.
Evidently it was Bram Stoker and his villainous Dracula who made Whitby famous and ‘put it on the map’.
I am sorry children.
John Hemson, The Carrs, Ruswarp
The full article contains 158 words and appears in Whitby Gazette Tuesday newspaper.
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Last Updated:
26 June 2008 1:34 PM
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Source:
Whitby Gazette Tuesday
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Location:
Whitby
