Whitby, New Years Eve

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We have booked to go to Whitby over the new year and it will be the first time I have been since getting back in to my photography. It's an amazing place and I think the picture opportunities could be very high (weather dependant)

Anyone been over new year ? Anything happen up at the Abbey area when the clocks strike 12 ?

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No, never been at new year but just wanted to say good luck as whenever I go to Whitby the weather is terrible or it's packed. I've promised myself that one day I'll be there for sunrise and sunset and hopefully grab the shots I always try to get but without being either in a downpour or surrounded by hundreds of people.
 
I used to live in Whitby when I was young. I remember the noise of the foghorns which used to go on round-the-clock - not a problem, we simply got used to it. Back then it wasn't particularly touristy and my mother and I used to walk along the seafront and then across to the Abbey, while she told me the kind of stories which were guaranteed to give me nightmares. If I was really well-behaved I got to spend my pocket money on a 'lucky duck' which the place was well known for (glasswork). On other occasions we used to go along the coast a short distance to root through the fossil beds - that was one of my favourite pursuits (I still have a box of the things in my attic). The weather always seemed to be freezing. I even remember the school I went to - Airy Hill Primary.

That was a very long time ago and I haven't been back since. I imagine it's changed a great deal since then. Funny the things you remember from your childhood.
 
It's a lovely place. Me and my GF usually go for fish and chips in The Magpie. Got to say that I prefer the Redcar, Marske and Saltburn area as it's a lot quieter.
 
Lindsay D said:
I used to live in Whitby when I was young. I remember the noise of the foghorns which used to go on round-the-clock - not a problem, we simply got used to it. Back then it wasn't particularly touristy and my mother and I used to walk along the seafront and then across to the Abbey, while she told me the kind of stories which were guaranteed to give me nightmares. If I was really well-behaved I got to spend my pocket money on a 'lucky duck' which the place was well known for (glasswork). On other occasions we used to go along the coast a short distance to root through the fossil beds - that was one of my favourite pursuits (I still have a box of the things in my attic). The weather always seemed to be freezing. I even remember the school I went to - Airy Hill Primary.

That was a very long time ago and I haven't been back since. I imagine it's changed a great deal since then. Funny the things you remember from your childhood.
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It hasn't changed that much, but is absolutely packed for weeks on end in the summer, to the point I avoid it.
You could hear the Hawsker Bull foghorn here 20 miles inland but it was turned off at least 20 years ago as modern aids took over.

I don't think anything goes on at the Abbey, the locals mainly seem to do a sort of pub crawl round the numerous small pubs.
It's pretty quiet through winter generally speaking.
 
Many thanks for the replies

We were there a couple of years ago on Goth weekend and that was amazing. I wasn't in to my photography back then but may return next year for it as the photo opportunities were everywhere.

Surprised about the church and Abbey as I would have thought that was a perfect place to see in the New Yeat at midnight.
 
Whitby was the home of the great photographer, Frank Meadows Sutcliffe. My father's favourite.

Do a search for some of his images.


Steve.
 
I would have thought the very last thing the national trust would want is 000's of p*ssed Yorkshire youths seeing in new year at the abbey.

Someone's already had a good go at demolishing it!
 
zendog said:
I would have thought the very last thing the national trust would want is 000's of p*ssed Yorkshire youths seeing in new year at the abbey.

Someone's already had a good go at demolishing it!
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Now that is a very valid point that I appear to have overlooked lol
 
Whitby looks great and I need to go back. When we went 2 years ago we'd only been there 5 minutes and the wife fell badly and damaged ligaments in her knee. 3 hours in Scarborough A and E after. This was day 1 of a 3 day break!!
 
Only 3 hours. Last year my wife did the same thing but without the fall. Spent 5 hours in Scarborough A&E . Fortunaly on the last but one night of our stay. Went back to scarborougha couple of weeks ago for 5 days. Spent a day in Whitby still as good as ever lodes of photos.
 
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