Excerpt from Whitby: Past and PresentVictoria Square was then an enclosed paddock, and at the east end there were stepping stones on which you crossed the beck at low tide. Just before it reached the harbour some warehouses abutted on the beck. Under one end of them was a darkish passage through which you passed to the ship-yards, to be welcomed by a colony of rooks who tenanted some tall elms which ¿ourished at the further end of it, and to be confronted by the Stocks which there awaited all evil-doers.The site of the present railway station was Mr. Barry's ship-yard, while his dock and that of Mr. Hobkirk lay beyond it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.