Historical Whitby Gallery 
 
 
 
Haglathe House when it was the last house in the street.   You can see the little window in the gable end which we have retained.  This picture was reproduced as a postcard. 
 
From Lionel Charltons book  A history of Whitby, and of Whitby abbey before the conquest : 
"From Church Street which terminates at the bottom of the 199 steps northward begins Haglathe. From a lathe, barn, or store house, which had been built there as a repository for such necessaries as were wanted in the winter season of the year by those inhabitants that had their residence below the hill; that place having long being known before the building of the lathe as Hag, on account of its low situation, whereby it is shaded from the sun for at least one half of the day." 
 
 
Noble's Fish Smokehouse which was at the top of Henrietta Street which closed in around 2000. 
 
David and Martha Wood started their married life in Kiln Yard then moved to a house at the top of Henrietta Street/Haggerlythe, where they ran a small fish business smoking herrings, boiling crabs and winkles which they had picked from the scaur. The second picture is of great gran Martha Wood nee Harland. Their fish business would later become Noble's which some of you may remember from when they traded on Church Street near the bottom of the 199 steps. 
 
Posted on the Old Whitby Facebook page by Liz Allan 
 
 
 
Haglathe from cliff top 
 
 
Henrietta Street from above in colour
 
 
Frederick William Booty watercolour 
 
Frederick William Booty was an artist from Brighton and he who was also the author of the first postage stamp catalogue in English, and the first illustrated stamp catalogue anywhere.  
 
In 1893, a Frederick William Booty received a Master of Arts Degree from Cambridge University. 
 
 
 
 
 
A painting by Frederick William Booty (1840-1924) 
 
 
Booty's watercolour landscape pictures are still regularly featured in art auctions in Britain. Although originally based in Brighton, his later work is mainly of scenes from Yorkshire and Humberside, including Hull and the ports of Scarborough and Whitby. Harbour scenes were a popular subject with Booty. He also painted Yorkshire panoramas and the peacocks at Haddon Hall, Derbyshire. 
 
 
 
 
1909 Artist's impression of top of Henrietta Street 
 
 
Undated artist's impression of top of Henrietta Street 
 
 
Looking from top of Henrietta Street with Fortune's then Haglathe House on the left 
 
 
Top of Henrietta Street
 
 
The Haven on the Hill, Whitby postcard 
 
 
The Haven under the Hill, Whitby postcard
 
 
Sunshine and Smoke 
 
 
 
 
Postcard 
 
 
Fabulous picture of Henrietta Street by Graystone Bird 
 
Some of the finest photographic lantern slides from the late Victorian and early Edwardian period were produced by Graystone Bird who, unlike other professional photographers of the time, sold his images on glass, magic lantern, projection slides. It is probably for this reason that he is virtually unknown today. 
 
 
 
1960s Henrietta Street
 
 
Bottom of Henrietta Street
 
 
Looking up Henrietta Street from the 199 steps 
 
Walter Emsley was born on February 12, 1860 in the outskirts of Manchester and died at the age of 78 on March 28, 1938. 
 
He was an interesting man, whose paintings and water colour drawings have been known in Manchester and district for over a century. 
 
 
 
Old Whitby Henrietta Street 
 
 
Bottom of Henrietta Street 
 
 
Henrietta Street from West Side 
 
 
 
 
Boat on Tate Hill beach
 
 
 
F H Sutcliffe picture - Mending the nets on East Pier 
 
 
East Cliff Postcard 
 
 
East Side view showing Spa Ladder 
 
 
East Side view showing Spa Ladder down onto East Pier
 
 
Smoky Whitby from the West side
 
 
Paddle Boat Steamer Whitby postcard
 
 
Two postcards - the bottom one showing how smoky Whitby used to be 
 
 
Top postcard - Whtiby from Larpool 
Bottom postcard - Whitby Bombarded by the Germans, December 1914 
 
 
Whitby Gazette 1858 
ACCIDENT - On Monday afternoon last, a shocking accident, resulting from intemperance, occurred in Henrietta street.  A woman, named Jane of ..., being in the garret of a house, four storeys high, and hearing a disturbance in the street, proceeded to the window for the purpose of seeing what was going on.  Being in a state of intoxication at the time, she thrust her body so far through the window that she overbalanced herself and fell into the street - descending with tremendous violence upon a little girlm named Margaret Donkin, six years of age, who happened to be immediately below the window at the time.  The child, when taken up, was found to be dreadfully injured, and Dr Taylerson being sent for, he ascertained that both her thighs were broken and that she had also received several severe bruises.  It is hoped, however, that by the exercise of great care and attention, combined with medical skill, the life of the child may be saved.  The woman, herself, had one or two ribs broken and was otherwise injured, and it is pretty clear that had she not fallen upon the unfortunate child she must have lost her life. 
 
Poor little Margaret Donkin!  Research uncovers that she lived from 1851 to 1924 and married a man called William Weatherill.  She went on to have 11 children. 
 
 
1794 
To the Right Honourable The Lord Lieutenant, 
the Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee 
for Managing the Subscriptions Raised for the 
General Defence of the North Riding of the  
County of Yorkshire
 
 
1768 Whitby Map
 
 
1778 Map showing Henrietta Street as Haglathe
 
 
Page 1 - post 1787  
inhabitants/owners of properties in Henrietta Street 
(previously Haglathe) 
 
 
Page 2 - post 1787 
inhabitants/owners of properties in Henrietta Street  
(previously Haglathe)