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{- per boarshill on HEIRtagger: "Suggest viewing this upstream photo in conjunction with 51434 Whitby - taken from the opposite bank facing towards the sea. Looking from Whitby west side SE towards the east side. (Camera *may* be on the road called "Khyber Pass" - a dating indication .... ? ) (1) The bridge in the photo is not the current one, which was constructed 1908/9. (2) I am intrigued by the pale pieces of some sort of material laid out on the beach at the left. Not a clean beach, so unlikely to be washing? Sails/sailmending? Some sort of fulling process? Local history knowledge might help here." -}

per email from boarshill: "This photo was taken before the old Whitby swing Bridge (1835-1908, designed by Francis Pickernell) was replaced by the 1908 swing bridge (which is wider, and allows bigger ships to pass).
The camera is near the mouth of the harbour looking inland over the Lower Harbour towards Whitby Bridge.
The harbour beyond the bridge is called the Upper Harbour.
The short pier opposite was called the Fish Pier, and the sands on which what look like sails are spread are called Tate Sands."

per email from Martin Rush, see map in "A MARITIME HISTORY OF THE PORT OF WHITBY, 1700-1914
Submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of London
STEPHANIE KAREN JONES
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
1982
page 149
http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1381923/1/389634.pdf
which "...shows sail lofts on the far bank, behind Tate Sands, which may have provided the sails we see here."


Per email from Sue Bird 01/07/2022: "The 1911 Flatters & Garnett catalogue supplement has within the section of "Slides of Scenery & Travel" the subsection "S. 30 Devonshire - from a new series of negatives"

Several S.o.G. images seem to have come from this section, unfortunately there are no records in the accession books for slides acquired in 1909 & 1910 so I can't yet give an accurate last date for these (the cash books may help when I get them out of the University Archives again)...

...HEIR 51431 & 51433 : as these have the Flatters nos of 61 & 62 they may well have been in the purchase made in Feb, 1905 - unfortunately the 1905 catalogue I now have a copy of is only for "Natural History Subjects, etc" & so does NOT include 'scenery & travel' so I'm unable to date these more effectively...."