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I uploaded some of the pics I took on holiday.

WARNING: Image intensive



First up, a visit to Whitby wouldn't be complete without an obligatory shot of the Abbey.


With that out of the way, I can post the more interesting pics. Having said that I was loathed to reduce them because they looked so much better before. However they were ridiculously huge also.

Dotted around this section of coast are old Alum workings. These quarries were basically cut into the cliffs because they were the easiest way to get at the shales and hence the Alum. Even though some of these quarries stretch back to the 17th and 18th centuries, they still leave a barren landscape behind them which I found pretty interesting.

Below is a picture of a bay just past Sandsend taken from one of the quarries. A couple of years ago I went fossil collecting with my dad (a big hobby of his and an old one of mine) down there. Unfortunately we got separated and the tide started to come in. As I didn't know the area that well, I wasn't sure where the old path to the cliff top was and trapsed through several bays much like the one below with the tide coming in and no way of getting up. Eventually I managed to get up but it left me with a bit of a phobia about tides ever since




This was also taken at Sandsend. The old coast line was closed long ago and is now a footpath. This old tunnel which stretches for quite a distance was blocked off by this brick wall but only so far up. This meant that you could still shout and hear the echo bouncing around up the tunnel.




I was really proud of this photo which I took on the alum quarries near Kettleness. It's an old sleuce from the 17th Century works. I didn't have to do any reconstruction or preparation for the shot either.




One of the major quarries I went down into was Boulby which are just North of Staithes. They're among the biggest.

The workings are visible from the Cliff top but getting down isn't very easy.






Down in the bottom








I also took a pic looking back at Staithes from the clifftop which I was proud of although I know its over-exposed.




Finally back home, we find a well