Robin Hood's Bay, N Yorkshire - Openings - art postcard by Harold Todd c.1950s

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• Picture / Image:  The Openings, Robin Hood's Bay [North Yorkshire]
• Publisher: from original sketch by Harold Todd, Robin Hood's Bay
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^{Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :}

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^{Robin Hood’s Bay is a small fishing village and a bay located within the North York Moors National Park, five miles south of Whitby and 15 miles north of Scarborough on the coast of North Yorkshire, England. Bay Town, its local name, is in the ancient chapelry of Fylingdales in the wapentake of Whitby Strand.}

^{Fishing and farming were the original occupations followed by generations of Bay folk. Fishing reached its peak in the mid 19th century, fishermen used the coble for line fishing in winter and a larger boat for herring fishing. Fish was loaded into panniers and men and women walked or rode over the moorland tracks to Pickering or York.[10] Many houses in the village were built between 1650 and 1750 and whole families were involved in the fishing industry. Many families owned or part owned cobles. Later some owned oceangoing craft.[11]}

^{A plaque in the town records that a brig named "Visiter" ran aground in Robin Hood's Bay on 18 January 1881 during a violent storm. In order to save the crew, the lifeboat from Whitby was pulled 6 miles overland by 18 horses, with the 7 feet deep snowdrifts present at the time cleared by 200 men. The road down to the sea through Robin Hood's Bay village was narrow and had awkward bends, and men had to go ahead demolishing garden walls and uprooting bushes to make a way for the lifeboat carriage. It was launched two hours after leaving Whitby, with the crew of the Visiter rescued on the second attempt.[12][13]}

^{This brig may well be; “only sail noticeable was a foreign schooner with all sails set, which was seemingly going westwards.” [Which also ran aground in the bay]; an expert from Dracula by Bram Stoker written in 1897, where amoungst other occurrences; “an immense dog sprang up on deck from below” and went ashore. From the book it appears other paranormal activities happened in the small fishing village.}

^{The main legitimate activity had always been fishing, but this started to decline in the late 19th century. These days most of its income comes from tourism.[14]}

^{Robin Hood's Bay is also famous for the large number of fossils which may be found on its beach.}

^{In 1912 Professor Walter Garstang of Leeds University, in cooperation with Professor Alfred Denny of the University of Sheffield, established the Robin Hood's Bay Marine Laboratory, which continued on the site for the next 70 years.}