Albert T Pile 1882 – 1981 drawing the yards of Whitby before they had gone for ever !
Drawing the yards of Whitby before they had gone for ever !
I was in the Whitby Museum again on Friday with my ongoing mission to try and find some old pictures of the yard where my cottages in Whitby. Unfortunately once again I wasn’t successful but I did find some books which describe what life was like living in the fishing yards of Whitby during the 18th and 19th century. I will be going into the subject in a further blogs but I thought for today I would just mention the very fine work of an artist called Albert T Pile, who took great care in the late fifties and early sixtys of drawing some of the unfortunate demolition of the fishing yards of Whitby. Obviously not all of them have gone but he took great care in showing future generations what had been.
If anybody reads this article and has any old pictures of Whitby Yards and particularly Haydock’s Place, which is my yard which is off Flowergate, I would be very grateful if you would contact me. alan@whitby.uk.net Mobile 07813779273
This is a little mini Biography of Albert T Pile MSM, FRSA, SGA, which I have reproduced condensed with permission and also one of his sketches.
Albert T Pile was born in London were he lived the greater part of his life. He was educated at
Albert T Pile 1882 – 1981 MSM, FRSA, SGA
King’s College in London and had ambitions to become a doctor and particularly a medical missionary. To this end he studied anatomy in his spare time, but the pressure of work in the education department was too great and he never realised his ambition.
Albert T Pile 1882 – 1981 MSM, FRSA, SGA
During the First World War he served in the RAMC at St Omer were the wounded men from the battlefield were brought on hospital beds. Pile painted and sketched for pure pleasure and never wish to become a professional artist. The varied locations of his watercolours are explained by them being done while he was on holiday in Lancashire, Cumbria, Devon, Cornwall town of white, Belgium and various parts of southern England. His art and his daily work were completely separate until 1930s when much of Whitehall was being demolished and Pile undertook to record the fastest falling buildings, Though he rarely sold any of his work Pile exhibited widely.
Pile married in later life is life came from Brighouse which is where he retired. Later they moved to Whitby living in the Stakesby area. They had no family he was a quiet retiring man loft at above all else.
It was in Whitby that he furthered his interest in passing and demolishing many of old parts of the town. The yards of Church Street and Boulby bank, together with those that were behind Haggersgate and the Fish Quay are documented with sketches of their gradual disappearance, with dates and times and even record of the number of cottages depicted in each yard are all carefully recorded. Sometimes the creative artist is able to devote his whole life to an artistic talent. It is hard to read that the person who uses his leisure time and retirement can have the ability to produce the amount of creative work of the calibre of Albert T Pile
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