Ghost Sign

New Year's Day visit to Whitby, it was bright but cold and very busy.  Who says there's no money about except the media luvvies!  A walk along Church Street and I noticed the pub sign proclaiming 'Good Stabling', a ghost sign on an old coaching inn...

Built in 1681 by Sir Hugh Cholmley, the White Horse & Griffin was the first Coaching Inn from Whitby to York and London. It was operated as an Inn until 1939.  It was also used as a meeting place for explorers Captain James Cook and William Scoresby who hired and fixed their crews from the building. The White Horse & Griffin closed in 1939 on the day of the Battle of the River Plate (the first major Naval Battle of the Second Wold War).   The building was acquired and extended by a local builder in 1982. The sympathetic restoration process took 11 years to complete.
 
Extra:  Fish and Chips at Hadley's.  Yum.