Harbour Wall

Harbour Wall

A century and a half of the sea against the stone — and the engineers who must now decide how much longer the wall can h...

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Sea Fret

Sea Fret

An essay on the fog that swallows the east coast each spring — and what it hides, and what it reveals....

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Winter on the Cobles

Winter on the Cobles

Three months aboard the last working cobles of the Yorkshire coast, where the boats are older than the men and the men a...

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A workboat lying alongside at dusk with the wheelhouse still burning. CR
Wheelhouse Light
Alasdair Kinloch / Bait Loft
The bow of a working boat, chain through both rings, paint down to the metal. CR
Bow Chain
Alasdair Kinloch / Bait Loft
The covered deck of the pier in a north-easterly, one bench and a long grey sea. CR
Under the Canopy
Alasdair Kinloch / Bait Loft
The old fish-sales books left stacked on the table in a building nobody has heated since.
Abandoned Ledgers
Alasdair Kinloch / Bait Loft
The end of the breakwater marked off with what came to hand. CR
Two Cones, Breakwater End
Alasdair Kinloch / Bait Loft
Pallets, bales and a control panel — the back of the trade, lit by one strip light. CR
The Store Door
Alasdair Kinloch / Bait Loft
Two boats stood off the quay, the crews aboard and the town lined up along the wall for them. CR
The Fleet Blessing
Alasdair Kinloch / Bait Loft
A creel boat lying to the quay wall at dusk, wheelhouse lit, nobody aboard. CR
Blue Boat, Blue Hour
Fenella Strang / Haar & Harbour
Ground chain over a painted gunwale, every link scaled with salt. CR
Chain and Gunwale
Fenella Strang / Haar & Harbour
The pleasure pier shuttered for winter, the far end lost before the halfway lamp. CR
The Pier, Closed
Fenella Strang / Haar & Harbour
Charts, ink and a stopped clock in the pilot house window.
The Pilot's Desk
Fenella Strang / Haar & Harbour
The fairway marker standing off the quay with nothing behind it but haar. CR
Fairway Cone
Fenella Strang / Haar & Harbour
The cold-store door left ajar, ice trodden across the yard, blue crates stacked to the wall. CR
Cold Store
Fenella Strang / Haar & Harbour
A line of figures on the wall gone half to fog, the sea somewhere past them. CR
Haar on the Harbour Wall
Fenella Strang / Haar & Harbour
The registers left open on the desk where they were filled in, the window gone white with haar.
The Harbour Office
Hebe Cranston / Salt Register
The wheelhouse lit at dusk, the harbour flat as a plate, the day counted up. CR
Last Light on the Quay
Merrick Ord / Landing Hour
A bollard grown over with lichen, still taking the weight of the fleet. CR
Bollard and Chain
Merrick Ord / Landing Hour
The covered walk in February, wet boards the length of it and nobody sitting down. CR
Red Bench, Out of Season
Merrick Ord / Landing Hour
Fifty years of landings in one ledger, every box and every buyer written in by hand.
Landing Book
Merrick Ord / Landing Hour
A channel marker on the pier head, the only colour left in the afternoon. CR
The Marker
Merrick Ord / Landing Hour
The fish-house door standing open to the weather, crates of ice going out to the boats. CR
Ice Room Door
Merrick Ord / Landing Hour
The boat brought in along the channel and every coat in the place stood on the shingle to watch. CR
The Whole Town Came Down
Merrick Ord / Landing Hour
The narrow channel into the old harbour, walls streaked with rust.
The Gut
Nell Armstrong / Iron Shore
The harbour wall bending the eye toward the distant light. CR
The Curve
Esme Tarn / Slow Water
Where the 1914 extension meets the Victorian original. CR
The Extension
Callum Reid / Pier & Parapet
East and west piers framing the harbour mouth in fog. CR
Twin Piers
Callum Reid / Pier & Parapet
A century of North Sea weather worked into the coping stones. CR
Coping Stones
Callum Reid / Pier & Parapet
The full sweep of the pier at low water, walkers for scale.
Parapet Walk
Callum Reid / Pier & Parapet
The original gas-era lamp standard, now electric, still standing. CR
Lamp Standard
Callum Reid / Pier & Parapet
Storm-relief arches beneath the parapet, engineered against the swell. CR
The Arches
Callum Reid / Pier & Parapet
The Victorian pier extension, cast-iron lamp and stone arches intact. CR
Whitby West Pier
Callum Reid / Pier & Parapet
The harbour light holding steady as the fret closes the sky. CR
Lamp Against the Dark
Bram Fenwick / Sable & Fret
A north-easterly building against the harbour arm, spray to the lamp. CR
Storm Watch
Bram Fenwick / Sable & Fret
Harbour mouth disappearing into sea fret, bell sounding every thirty seconds. CR
Fog Bell
Mara Ellison / Harbour Light Studio
A February north-easterly breaks over the harbour wall at high water. CR
Storm Gate
Mara Ellison / Harbour Light Studio

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