Bombardment Garden
Tis Remembrance Day and along with our minute of silence, we want to dedicate a post to those lost. If you're ever up on West Cliff in Whitby, you might stumble across what looks like a bombed house. You'd be forgiven for thinking it was, but in reality it is a memorial to the 1914 coastal attack by Whitby In Bloom. Installed in 2014, the memorial stands as a reminder of the 1914 attack where two German cruisers fired shells at Whitby and killed two people. Compared to the rest of the country, the damage was mostly structural and the death count low, but it was something that rocked Whitby as it was never really a target. The Bombardment Garden is a reconstruction of a simple two-up two-down house from that era that had been destroyed by a bomb. The shell is in the ruins, there's even an intact fireplace. If you didn't know any better, you'd assume this house had been recently bombed and then left out in the elements unclaimed. ...
