Whitby

Here’s a look back at some videos from the first Covid lockdown, four years on from when Boris Johnson ordered the UK to 'stay at home' on 23 March 2020.

Atop the South Bay cliff, looking down on the distinctive chequerbaord floor of Scarborough spa and its opulent Victorian architecture, its white columns standing proud against the blue sky, you could be forgiven for thinking you were in a faraway place instead of one of the North’s top seaside towns.

Despite it being a wet and windy night, there was a good turnout to the Alnwick and District Local History's November meeting to hear Dr Tony Barrow give a talk with the intriguing title 'Incendiary Letters and Iniquitous Practices.'