Thursday Doors is a weekly photo challenge where lovers of doors and architecture can admire and share their door photos and images. If you’d like to join in, create your own Thursday Doors post and share a link to your post in Dan Antion’s Thursday Doors photo challenge on his site, nofacilities.com.
This week, my contributions come from Robin Hood’s Bay on the North Yorkshire coast.
One of our favourite places to visit is North Yorkshire, in particular the North Yorks National Park and its North Sea coast. Recently, we visited the wonderful coastal towns of Saltburn, Whitby, Runswick Bay, Whitby and Robin Hood’s Bay.
Robin’s Hood Bay is a small fishing village that oozes with character and history. It’s a quaint little place with cobbled ‘ginnels’, cottages, traditional fisherman’s pubs, and an old coastguard lookout.
The place is so photogenic, I couldn’t stop taking snaps and whilst I wasn’t focussing specifically on ‘doors’, I did find some nice ones which I’ll share with you below.
Just in case you’re wondering what the connection with Robin Hood is (as I did) it appears that there is no hard evidence that the famous outlaw ever went there. That’s not to say he didn’t because he was born in Yorkshire and it is possible it may have been a hiding place where he could quickly escape by boat. According to one legend, Robin Hood saved the local fishermen by fighting off some French pirates who came to pillage their fishing boats. The grateful villagers then renamed the village after him.
Notice the whale jawbone in the front garden and the porthole picture on the door….. Let’s zoom in…….
This next one is actually in the rural market town of Stokesley, where we stopped for a snack on the way to our hotel.
The Bloggler 
It looks like a lovely area. Great photos. I know that feeling of wanting to keep clicking away.
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I visited Robin Hood’s Bay when I was a teenager, long before I had an interest in architecture, and recall falling in love with it, ticking so many boxes for me. I wonder if the blue any yellow doors are deliberately the colours of Ukraine, or if it is accidental.
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They do seem to be popular colours. There were a couple of Ukrainian flags there also. It’s a lovely place isn’t it? The form and scale of the place fits so well in its setting.
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