Stormy scenes ahead for floating gallery...

Violent storms swallowing ships and more peaceful images feature in the Yorkshire Waterways Museum’s latest Room 58 exhibition, Yorkshire Coast, which features 27 watercolours mainly of Scarborough, and also others of Whitby and Robin Hood’s Bay.

The artists include Henry Barlow Carter (1803-1868) and Sir Francis Nicholson (1753–1844) and come from a collection not normally on permanent display.

Nicholson, who studied with a local artist in Scarborough, before beginning his career in his native Pickering, was a founder-member of the Society of Painters in Watercolours.

Museum manager Rachel Walker said: “There are quite a lot of stormy scenes of ships being wrecked, a theme which the Victorians seemed to like, as well as more modern works into the 1900s.

“They are a real mixture and I am sure people will recognise the local scenes – including Scarborough from the sea before all the big buildings went up.”

Room 58 and the museum are open every day from 10am to 4pm and are free.

Goole Docks boat trips run every weekend at quarter past the hour (£4 adults, £3 children, £12 family ticket).