I look out across the snowy coast, wondering which bits contain black gold. Jet dealers depend on prospectors with years of experience. Chris Sellors' giant plank was found by an old Whitby family ...

Whitby jet is light, warm to the touch, hard enough to carve and can be polished to a sheen. Its most noted quality is the depth of its blackness. As Shakespeare has it in Henry VI: ‘Black, forsooth: ...

In the Gazette's new-look What's On an interesting feature on Whitby mentioned the famous jet jewellery. In the Gazette's new-look What's On an interesting feature on Whitby mentioned the famous ...