Sunday 7 August 2011

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Today my family and I are visiting the historic fishing town of Whitby. The town is probably most famous as a setting in Bram Stokers novel Dracula. The ruins of the Abbey overlooking the town feature in the story and are a popular tourist attraction.

The site of the Abbey is bleak, windswept and exposed. Ideal as a location in a Gothic novel! The towns exposed position on the East coast saw it shelled by German battleships in 1914. The Abbey was damaged as were several buildings in the town.

5 comments:

  1. Looks very nice!

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  2. Looks awesome for a Larp session of The Masquerade or such

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  3. great pic, did you get down on to the beach and get to go fossil hunting?

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  4. That's a great picture, and very useful for wargaming. Next time someone asks me where all the rubble is in my ruiins I can show them this pic. :)

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  5. Nice one Lee, I am familiar with Whitby and used to visit it often; used to love eating fish 'n' chips on the seafront, but could never get in Magpies (best chippy up North;)

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