WhitbyHolidayCottage.co.uk
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Whitby Holiday Cottages
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Famous for being the place where Bram Stoker wrote "Dracula", made popular by numerous films, especially Hammer Horror throughout the 50s and 60s with Christopher Lee. Much of the novel was set in Whitby, and many people look for Dracula's unmarked grave in the churchyard. Although there have been many Dracula films made, none have yet been accurately based on Stoker's novel (yes, even Bram Stoker's Dracula by Francis Ford Coppola!).
Whitby is also the birthplace of Captain Cook's ship the Endeavour, upon which Cook sailed and discovered Australia. The ship was originally built to carry coal and was called "The Earl of Pembroke" before it was bought by the Royal Navy for expeditions several years later. James Cook trained as a sailor in Whitby, and you can see the house in which he lived from The Old Bakehouse cottage (see left menu). The replica H. M. Endeavour regularly visits Whitby from Australia.
More recently, the town is frequently featured in television programmes such as Heartbeat and The Royal and has also been the setting for episodes of Dalziel & Pascoe, Kavanagh QC, Two Fat Ladies, various cooking programmes including Gary Rhodes and Rick Stein (for the town's fish & chips and smoked kipper fame). It was even the setting for Simply Red's "Holding Back the Years" music video (although that was in the 1980s!). Whitby also had its own television series - "One Summer in Whitby" which was shown across the UK on ITV regions at various times of the day and night in 1997/98.
