Just
donated this picture to the R.N.L.I. He is Henry Freeman he was the
only survivor of the 1861 Whitby lifeboat disaster .The rest of the
crew refused to wear the newly invented cork life jacket ,but he agreed
to try it out so saving his life. He went on to rescue more than 300
lives in his lifetime and was rewarded the R.N.L.I. silver
medal.reference photo courtesy of the sutcliffe gallery.
Currently on show at the Whitby lifeboat station.
Buy a crab sir!
Hannah Ward was a Whitby
fishmonger and the artist's Great,Great, Grandmother. Born Hannah
Gildroy in Pickering in 1862 she married a local fisherman Joseph
Hall when she was just seventeen. She had five children by him and
was widowed in 1899.She married again in the same year to Timothy
Ward.
She worked hard all her life selling fish and shellfish on
the quays.
This picture of her when
she was in her seventies was created with the help of an old
newspaper cutting taken at around 1939 .
In her younger days she
was photographed by the famous Whitby photographer Frank Meadow
Sutcliffe .Known then as Hannah Hall in one study she is sat on a
rock with her basket and a friend stood next to her. She is wearing a
wedding ring and looks to be still in her teens or early twenties
,another study depicts her on the fish pier and her mother Hannah
Gildroy is stood near by who is the artist's Great,Great,Great
Grandmother.By Susan Goodall©2010
This is Hannah as a young woman. I created this image of her with the help of photos of her from the Sutcliffe Gallery and how I imagine how she would look as she went about her daily work.
