Alphabet Photography Project
England
Notes From the Dockside
Alphabet Photography Project | Q is for Quay
Wednesday, January 13, 2016TheCambrians
From
Oxford
Quay noun \'kē, 'kā, 'kwā\
A concrete, stone, or
metal platform lying alongside or projecting into
water for loading and
unloading ships.
Welcome to another installment of the ‘Alphabet
Photography Project’ and the letter Q. This week I chose the word “quay”
for a couple of reasons: 1) it’s nautical and 2) there’s a story to be told,
though not one that goes with the word itself but, rather, the seaport town it’s
located in – Whitby, UK.
What’s so
special about Whitby
For
a start, it’s home to the ruins of the famous abbey where Bram Stoker was
inspired to write “Dracula”. It’s also home to the Magpie Café where people
line up daily to taste their world-famous fish & chips (they really are
some of the best we’ve ever had). But what makes Whitby Cambria ’s home port.
You
may be wondering why we chose to register our boat in the UK US US New
Zealand Cambria there, we would’ve had to pay import duty and GST.
That left England Cambria was built there. VAT had been paid. And both of us
appreciated the idea of having a little piece of England
Neither
David nor I are from Whitby Middlesbrough in Northern Yorkshire
which sits on the bank of the River Tees. The Tees feeds out to the North Sea and is a major port but lacks . . . character.
It’s also a bit of a mouthful to say on the radio and not many people, outside
of England
Enter Whitby
There’s
another reason we gravitated towards Whitby Middlesbrough . His ancestral home was within miles of David’s
and even closer to where he went to grammar school. Much of D’s childhood was
spent in Cook’s footsteps: playing in the same fields and climbing the same
hills. And it was in Whitby Whitby
