From Venice to Whitby
It was our 20th wedding anniversary last week. As we had spent our honeymoon in Venice we decided to go somewhere equally romantic and exotic.
Whitby.
It were Grand!
We drove up the A1 for some way in convoy with a fabulous black 1920′s Tim Birkin style Bentley – couldn’t get a decent photo of it though.
Whitby Abbey the setting for Bram Stoker’s Dracula, was beautiful – and the day we visited there was a War of the Roses recreation – with knights in armour, bowmen and soldiers of foot, with all the associated train of wives and camp followers – marvelous stuff!
I got talking to a couple of chaps who actually make the armour and weapons – unfortunately the orginal method of making the armiour has been lost to history as it was never recorded – but they do their best – using forge welding in a far more artistic way than I handle a MIG welder.
A week of fossil hunting, walking the moors, looking in shops, visiting Grand Houses and eating of Yorkshire teas then followed.
On our last day we stopped at a village called Thornton-le-Dale to visit a really superb private motor museum – The North Yorkshire Motor Museum owned and run by David Mathewson.
Inside the museum is a real jumble of old cars and memorabilia – including an Aston Martin DB6 mk2
and one for Malcolm… A rather strangely coloured MGA.
In their shop they have a whole host of classic cars for sale, including this AMV8
The chassis number is only 16 away from ROJ – so they could well have both been on the factory floor at the same time. The museum vist neatly ended a splendid week – I can heartily recommend North Yorkshire during summer for some terrific top down motoring over the moors.