Few women could rival Whitby's fishermen on wartime seas, but then Dora Walker was always known to charter her own course. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get ...

Dora Walker. Picture: Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society She had been, she said, only the 11th woman in Britain to hold a driving licence, and in 1912 had been one of the first to go up in ...

THEY LABOUR MIGHTILY by Dora M Walker (Caedmon of Whitby, 128 Upgang Lane, Whitby, Y021 3JJ, £9.95). IT was a strange ambition for a young girl – especially one living more than 60 miles from ...