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Postcard
showing the foot of the steps leading to Whitby Abbey and St Mary's
Church. Published by Walter Scott, Bradford. Date
unknown.
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Photograph
from a similar viewpoint taken in July 2008. There are
reputed to
be 199 steps and many people can be heard counting them as they walk up
or down.
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Another
postcard looking down the steps. This one posted in August
1910.
Published in th Queen Series by T.T. & S.,
Scarborough.
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Photograph from a
similar position taken in July 2008.
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card of the steps, this time looking up. Unkown publisher but
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Photograph taken in July 2008.
Similar viewpoint but the postcard seems to have been taken
from
a higher position, possibly a window of one of the houses at the foot
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Postcard
of Whitby Abbey looking east. "Jay Em Jay" series, published
by
Jackson & Sons, Grimsby. Date unknown, not posted.
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Photograph
taken from a similar postion in July 2008. The area with the
pillars seems to have been tidied up since the postcard was taken but
there seems to have been a considerable amount of degradation of the
Abbey walls.
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Another view of the
Abbey, from the south east. Again published by Jackson
& Sons. Date unknown and not posted.
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Photograph taken from a
similar viewpoint in July 2008. Unfortunately no cows on this occasion.
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