by Andrew Gill | Aug 21, 2021 | Gallery, Places
This rather unusual subject matter for a photographer one hundred and twenty years ago is a stall selling jet jewellery in Whitby on the Yorkshire coast. The term ‘jet black’ comes from this gemstone mineral, found on the local beaches. The jewellery... 
by Andrew Gill | Jul 31, 2021 | Gallery, Places, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
This alley in Whitby has the unusual name of ‘Tin Ghaut’. Ghauts, of which the town had several, seems to be a term used only in Whitby and possibly derives from ‘gate’. Taken in the early 1900s, this is an interesting study of life in the... 
by Andrew Gill | Jul 25, 2021 | Gallery, Places
Whitby, on the Yorkshire coast, with its fishing boats, bustling quayside and quaint back-alleys, has attracted artists for hundreds of years. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, photographers followed in their footsteps, the most famous being Frank... 