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St. Hildas Gardens, WHITBY, YO21 3AA

A view that's soon likely to disappear when it will be obscured by the new building in the foreground.

Situated on Back St Hilda's Terrace. On the far left of the picture is an old mounting block.

On Back St. Hilda's Terrace. Notice left of centre at the base of the lamp post with the orange CCTV sign there is a flight of stone steps that would have been used to mount horses.

Whitby fire station, Back Saint Hildas Terrace, Whitby, North Yorkshire. As mentioned in Image, this is now the only view of the fire station possible from this side, with building works now completed.

Set into a wall on Crescent Avenue, outside the Royal Mail Delivery Office.

A closer view of the postbox can be seen here: Image

What looks like old mounting steps associated with the stone wall at the corner of St Hilda's Gardens and Back St Hilda's Terrace next to a building of a later date. In the background, right, are the doors of Whitby fire station. Dormer windows at the rear of the Union Mill building can be seen in the middle distance.

A terrace of guest houses and flats; the triangular bay windows are a curious feature

Union Mill was situated on this site in Upgang Road,now occupied by an apartment development of the same name, (Union Mill Apartments), and prior to that by Harrisons Showroom Garage. The idea to build a mill came about in March 1800 when a group of concerned local businessmen held a meeting at The White Horse and Griffin Inn. In the late 18th C the yields for grain crops varied considerably. In the last decade there were a series of poor harvests and as bread was a staple food, the poor were the first to suffer. The group formed Union Mill Society, which later became incorporated into Whitby Union Mill Industrial and Provident Society Ltd, the papers and minutes of meetings are currently held by Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society. The mill provided reduced cost grain for local poor people and at cost for members/shareholder of the union. Each member had their own ticket which was punched on each batch of grain received. The foundation stone for Union Mill was laid by T.Fishburn and T.Broderick in June 1800. The mill suffered storm damage in Oct 1880 and again in July 1888. It was demolished or taken down to ground floor level in 1923.