Sticking with the north east, Yorkshire of course, and Whitby. Two hostels and one in a building that linked back to TA Leonard and the Co-operative Holidays Association.
Almost as soon as YHA started, the infant Wear Tees and Eskdale Region recognised that a hostel at Whitby would be a great attraction.
199 steps lead steeply from the town to the east side of the River Esk, where lie the clifftop Parish Church of St Mary’s and the ruined Whitby Abbey with all its accoutrement of historic houses and outbuildings.
Read more in John Martin’s historical profile of the Whitby hostels…
Image outside the youth hostel in 1934 courtesy YHA Archive at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.
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