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Captain Cook Memorial Museum
Tel: (01947) 601900, Fax:
(01947) 601900,
North Yorkshire, YO22 4BA
This handsome 17thC harbourside house is where the great explorer, James Cook, came to serve his apprenticeship in Whitby in the year 1746. It belonged to Cook's master, the Quaker shipowner, Captain John Walker. When the young Cook was not at sea, he lodged here in the attic with Walker's 'other family' of apprentices. The house is now a museum celebrating Cook's Whitby years and his later achievements. The rich collection includes period rooms - furnished as Cook knew them - and models, maps and manuscripts, ships plans, artefacts from the voyages. A 'must' for Cook fans.....
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