My Virtual Photo Album

Taken when the family was living at 2 St.Hilda’s Cottages, Whitby, Yorks. About 1915. Arthur (known as Artie) was then about 5 and Annie about one year old. The young Artie was an accomplished local artist and many of his pictures are still in the family. This ability probably came from his mother who had been trained to paint in her childhood, ‘though the Palings were also an artistic family but more involved with the carving of jet ornaments.

Arthur Paling had gone to sea at a young age and trained as a cook. He subsequently became steward and then Chief Steward in the Merchant Navy, serving at sea throughout the First World War. This photograph was taken on the Kildale owned by Rowland & Marwood of Whitby about 1910. Arthur is the one in shirt sleeves at the front. Behind him in the flat cap is Raymond Storm of Whitby whose first ship as 2nd officer this was.

Raymond Storm’s great nephew subsequently married Arthur Paling’s great niece.

This photograph was taken around 1920.