Lesson in town geography
YOUR correspondent David Nutt (Yorkshire Post, January 8) must be looking at a different map of Whitby to me.
With the River Esk flowing more or less due north (as it does) through the harbour and out into the sea, Henrietta Street and Fortune’s Smokehouse are in the top right hand (north east) corner of my Whitby town map.
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Hide AdThere seems to be a popular misconception that the river flows eastwards into the sea, and that the opposite banks are therefore the north side and south side. This is not the case, as I am sure Captain Cook knew.
Star role
From: RD Leakey, Giggleswick, North Yorkshire.
REGARDING the Sky at Night and Stargazing television programmes, and your article (Yorkshire Post, January 10), what is worth mentioning is that Giggleswick was one of the places to raise public awareness of astronomy.
At Giggleswick school there is a building specially for telescopes and not far away there is a plaque that was unveiled by Patrick Moore commemorating where a total eclipse was observed in 1927.
Lorry hazard
From: Michael J Robinson, Park Lane, Berry Brow, Huddersfield.
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Hide AdPICKING up on the recent correspondence about ill-lit vehicles creating hazards, have you noticed how the drivers of vehicles such as delivery lorries park badly to make their deliveries and put on their hazard warning lights to make it okay?