The Whitby Project: Local Traditions & Tourism

Fishing

Whitby is an fishing village which has been locally fishing for many years. You can walk across the harbour, look out to sea and watch the sunset while eating fish and chips.
You can go on a boat ride to go to the sea and see other attractions like dolphins in the summer months.
There are fishing trips as well to catch fish (well yeah! The clues in the name!!) but I have never been on one. The local people run the boat and fishing trips, this is part of their income. The local fisherman also sell their fish to the fish & chip shops and fishmongers around Whitby.

Seafood

Around the harbour there are stalls which sell fresh seafood like cockles, muscles, prawns and crayfish tails. They are around £2 a pot but are ready to eat and really fresh. I like fresh seafood so we always stop and get a pot each to eat as we walk around the town.

This is where we go to get the seafood but there are other places to get seafood as well.

Ice cream & Fudge

Ice cream and fudge are also local traditions they local people make their own ice cream and fudge in lots of different flavours. My favourite ice cream is cookies & cream, my dad likes honeycomb ice cream.
The fudge shops also have lots of different flavours to buy. We always buy a mixed bag but you can buy slabs of fudge and pay by the gramme.

This fudge shop is near the seafood shack (above)

Craft Shops

There are many different shops like craft shops and art galleys around Whitby.
Local artists sell their paintings in the galleries, they also sell prints of their pictures which are cheaper than the real canvases.

The craft shops sell lots of different crafts from handmade soap to bags, scarves, clothing etc.... The local people have shops to sell their goods and other times stalls around the town like an open air market.

You sometimes see cake stalls where the local people have baked cakes and biscuits for tourists to buy. The smell from the cakes and also the soap shop is lovely as you walk around the town.

Lucky Ducks

There is also a glass shop where they have made and sold the famous lucky ducks for over 50 years. You can see the glass being melted and formed into little duck shapes.

They also make other items from glass but its the Lucky Ducks that are the most famous. Some of the glass ducks change colour depending on the weather, I think this is really clever, people usually buy these ones as gifts for others. You can buy different colour ducks depending on when your birthday is.