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Yorkshire Chess History |
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31 Flowergate, Whitby |
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31 Flowergate, Whitby, now (2013) occupied by Save the Children, was the meeting place of Whitby Chess Club from Monday, 29th September 1884. The printer’s firm of William Forth, who retired as secretary of Whitby Chess Club on 27/09/1884, was at no. 45, on the same side of Flowergate, but near the bottom, in the vicinity of what is now Poundland.
Opposite the front door, but towards the back of the shop, is a fairly wide staircase to the first floor where the chess club may well have met.
The numbering of properties on Flowergate starts at the bottom, with the left-hand side numbered sequentially going up the hill. The numbers continue sequentially back down the hill on the opposite side, down to the bottom. Thus to the right of no. 31 is no. 32, and the two were clearly build as a single building. In living memory, no.31 was a ladies’ outfitter’s shop while no. 32 was a gents’ outfitter’s shop, and there was a connecting archway allowing passage between the two. Upper rooms might conceivably have extended across both shops.
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Created 08/05/2013 |
Copyright © 2013 Stephen John Mann |
Last Updated 08/05/2013 |