North Yorkshire Snow Globes
North Yorkshire’s coast stretches nearly 100 miles from Redcar down to near Hull in northern England. There are 2 major seaside resorts, Whitby and Scarborough, both with tourist shops and snow globes for sale.
This generic County of Yorkshire globe contains an image of Whitby Abbey and the whalebone arch which reminds visitors of the maritime history ( as well as York Minster and the Humberside Bridge and the Harrogate Pump Room) of the town. The county white rose emblem is around the base.
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There are 48 counties in England dividing it into regions for government and administration purposes. These have been around since the 11th century and North Yorkshire is the largest.
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This Whitby globe contains the iconic Whitby Whale Arch with the ruins of the Abbey framed in the background.
Whitby was a mjor Whaling town in the 18th and 19th century. It was a dangerous but profitable business, not all ships made it back to port from the cold Greenland waters.
Celebrating the town's history, an actual whale bone arch was erected on the cliff overlooking Whitby in 1853. In 1963 the original damaged arch was replaced by another, and again in 2003, this time from a Bowhead whale killed legally by native Alaskan Inuits. The 1963 remains are in a Whitby Museum.
The site is a major tourist site within Whitby with great views through the arch and allows visitors to ponder the size and fate of these giants of the northern seas.
The globe also shows the ruins of the Whitby Abbey. The Abbey was originally a 7th century Christian monastery that became a Benedictine Abbey in the 11th century and its ruins remain. It is mentioned in detail in the book Dracula and inspired Bram Stoker when he visited Whitby.
Whitby has a great beach and rocky cliffs and coves making it a great British seaside resort. a couple of generic globes reflect this. the first looks more like a teddy bears picnic but has Whitby on it and was bought in the town. The second glass type globe shows a sand castle, part of the traditional sea side activites.
This is our second oldest globe, from the Whitby of the late 60s or early 70s. It has ships in it to indicate its sea side nature but does not have Whitby named on it. The ship in a bottle design with its glued in top has no way of replacing the liquid in it, which has long ago evaporated. It remains an interesting example of its day from long ago.
Scarborough is the largest seaside town on the Yorkshire Coast surrounded by cliffs and a castle on the headland. It has great beaches, a historic harbour, and is a traditional UK sea side resort.
Scarborough Castle is situated on the headland between the north and south bays and was built by William le Gros, Count of Aumâle in the 12th century. Prior to the castle prehistoric people lived on the headland, then a Roman signal station was built and later a Viking stockade. The castle has been attacked by medieval kings, 17th century Englsh Civil War armies, and a German naval bombardment during World War II.
Scarborough South Bay beach shown in the globe is a traditional seaside resort with amusements,
restaurants, ice creams, shops and donkey rides. Along the beach it has tourist trip boats and fishing trawlers. The Victorian, Grand Hotel built in 1863 overlooks the harbour.
The North Bay not shown, is for those who prefer basic sand and sea!
The North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) is a heritage railway that runs through the North York Moors National Park and is a few miles from Whitby and Scarborough. It was planned by George Stephenson and opened in 1836
so as to open trade routes inland from the seaport of Whitby. It was closed in 1965 but
was reopened in 1973 as a tourist attraction with steam trains transporting tourists along its 24 miles of countryside.
The station at Goathland was used as the site for Hogwarts Station in the Harry Potter films and Goathland appeared as the location for the Heartbeat TV police shows based in the 1960s on UK tv.
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