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a3 line drawing, ink & Derwent Inktense. Print supplied with certificate of authenticity securely packaged, please exercise care when removing art from postal tube.
Towards the end of the 1700’s Whitley Bay was known as Whitley, before the Victorian boom Whitley was a small fishing village and during the early hours of the morning locals making their way to work would cut across the sands or in fact the local women would be up winkle picking but lately terror had taken over the village of Whitley in the form of a glowing white phantom horse and rider seen racing across the sands in the early morning light with flames billowing behind the rider which, traversed the sands at full gallop from Tynemouth to Hartley, utterly terrifying local residents or anyone unlucky to find themselves stranded upon the sands at dawn.
The story had so many witnesses it made the newspapers of the day but has since become lost in the ‘sands of time’.
Also around this time the eldest daughter of the De-Lavals, Sarah Hussey betrothed to Lord Tyrconnel was often an invited guest at officers parties in Tynemouth a noted firebrand and feisty young lady often featured herself in the London columns due to her (s)exploits would for the sheer hell of it, in the early morning light would ride her favourite horse home to Delaval Hall completely naked the cartoonists of the time would feature her pure white skin, her fiery red hair would almost reach her behind it was so long! Her horse was also pure white!
The news report reads as follows;
THE PHANTOM WHITE HORSE AND IT’S RIDER OF OLD WHITLEY!
There is a romantic side even to the natural charm of these fine stretches of sands between Whitley and Hartley Point.
About 100 years ago (1790) there was a general belief in the visits of a ghost on horseback, flying over the hard sands with streaks of fire streaming behind it.
The phantom rider had been seen SO frequently that there could be no doubt as to its reality; yet it was only seen in the early hours of the morning between these fine stretches of sands between Whitley and Hartley Point.
About one hundred years ago there was a general belief in the visits of Lady Tyrconnel, the famous beauty and lovely daughter of Lord Delaval, was a frequent visitor. On more than one occasion, she was known to have rode home from Tynemouth to Seaton Delaval Hall, (Godiva Like) on her favourite white horse, her long luxuriant hair being her only covering, and as she sped over Whitley Sands with her hair streaming behind her, she was taken for a ghost in the early dawn by the work people who were early on their way to work!
Was there a phantom rider? or was it Sarah galloping home Godiva style in the early hours? who can say.
a3 line drawing, ink & Derwent Inktense. Print supplied with certificate of authenticity securely packaged, please exercise care when removing art from postal tube.
Towards the end of the 1700’s Whitley Bay was known as Whitley, before the Victorian boom Whitley was a small fishing village and during the early hours of the morning locals making their way to work would cut across the sands or in fact the local women would be up winkle picking but lately terror had taken over the village of Whitley in the form of a glowing white phantom horse and rider seen racing across the sands in the early morning light with flames billowing behind the rider which, traversed the sands at full gallop from Tynemouth to Hartley, utterly terrifying local residents or anyone unlucky to find themselves stranded upon the sands at dawn.
The story had so many witnesses it made the newspapers of the day but has since become lost in the ‘sands of time’.
Also around this time the eldest daughter of the De-Lavals, Sarah Hussey betrothed to Lord Tyrconnel was often an invited guest at officers parties in Tynemouth a noted firebrand and feisty young lady often featured herself in the London columns due to her (s)exploits would for the sheer hell of it, in the early morning light would ride her favourite horse home to Delaval Hall completely naked the cartoonists of the time would feature her pure white skin, her fiery red hair would almost reach her behind it was so long! Her horse was also pure white!
The news report reads as follows;
THE PHANTOM WHITE HORSE AND IT’S RIDER OF OLD WHITLEY!
There is a romantic side even to the natural charm of these fine stretches of sands between Whitley and Hartley Point.
About 100 years ago (1790) there was a general belief in the visits of a ghost on horseback, flying over the hard sands with streaks of fire streaming behind it.
The phantom rider had been seen SO frequently that there could be no doubt as to its reality; yet it was only seen in the early hours of the morning between these fine stretches of sands between Whitley and Hartley Point.
About one hundred years ago there was a general belief in the visits of Lady Tyrconnel, the famous beauty and lovely daughter of Lord Delaval, was a frequent visitor. On more than one occasion, she was known to have rode home from Tynemouth to Seaton Delaval Hall, (Godiva Like) on her favourite white horse, her long luxuriant hair being her only covering, and as she sped over Whitley Sands with her hair streaming behind her, she was taken for a ghost in the early dawn by the work people who were early on their way to work!
Was there a phantom rider? or was it Sarah galloping home Godiva style in the early hours? who can say.