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Merrywidow

Hi Sloan - thought you might like to know I am a Ska-ter. Just noticed on your profile you are a North Yorkshire lass from near Whitby. I LOVE Whitby. I hail from Saltburn. You will have recognised Grangetown on my earlier post. I now live in Kent but have family up there still.

sloan

Yes, I noticed the Grangetown mention. My husband was born in Hull, but brought up in Redcar. I am originally from Stockton, but now live 6 miles north of Whitby.

Merrywidow

Thanks Sloan - this really is a week of co-incidences. We lived in Stanley grove in Redcar 1960 - 1965 before my parents retired and moved to Saltburn. I went to Amsterdam for a holiday in 1966, loved it, got a job, met and married a Dutchman and finally returned to England in the 1990's. Now widowed. My Husband loved Whitby and when we came to Saltburn every Christmas we would head for Whitby on Boxing Day to blow away the cobwebs.

Hull - Oh I know it well - lost count of the number of times between 1966 and 1995 that we used North Sea Ferries for our holiday trips. They are still my favourite Ferry.

Merrywidow

Hi Droopsnout - must be in the Genes - The biggest shock since starting my search for my ancestors is finding out that they were all itinerant travellers in search of work. All from Wales and not the born and bred Yorkshire folk I always thought. Even my Father's mother's claim to be Scottish is all hogwash as she too hails from Wales with her iron ore worker father and they ended up in Scotland instead of Middlesbrough.

Even my mother's family and her London Bow Bells claim started life in Plymouth Devon. Got myself an infamous Royal Marine in my G-G-Grandad. He was booted out of the Navy in 1867 for drunkeness. What was that I said about "in the Genes" Hic!!

droopsnout

LOL!!

Another little coincidence ... As a kiddy I used to spend my summer holidays with my aunt in Filey. We frequently visited Whitby, and the Yorkshire coast remains one of my favourite places. (I was born in Doncaster).

In fact, I visited Whitby with some friends on our last trip to the UK in February. Had a fish'n'chip lunch in the pub at Sandsend. (Can't remember its name now!)

Would be great if we could organise another "coincidence" and meet there one day!

sloan

The Hart? I drive past it every day on my way to school. In the summer, I drive down Lythe Bank towards Sandsend and have the panorama of Whitby in front of me. It makes be glad to be alive!

sloan

sorry .... me glad to be alive. My school is the one at the end of the new bridge in Whitby .... and it would be good to meet if you are up here again.

Merrywidow

What new bridge in Whitby? I remember Lythe Bank only too well. My driving instructor found every rotten steep hill from Saltburn to Whitby. Salburn has a 1 in four down to the beach, it twists too.

My late husband used to be facinated by the Moors. He would stop the car and get out just to hear the "stillness". Don't get much of that in the middle of Amsterdam!

sloan

The new bridge is the one that takes the main road from Whitby to Scarborough. I knoe Saltburn Bank well. My nephew had his wedding reception at the hotel which is half way down.

droopsnout

Yes, I think it was The Hart.

Not sure when I'll be over again. No plans at the moment, but Mum may be having cataract ops later this year, so could be going over then. Otherwise, it could be Christmas time, I suppose.