James Cook grocer and haberdasher William Sanderson. Historians have speculated that this is where Cook first felt the lure of the sea while gazing out of the shop window. After 18 months, not proving suitable for shop work, Cook travelled to the nearby port town of Whitby to be introduced to friends of Sanderson's, John and Henry Walker. The Walkers, who were Quakers, were prominent local ship-owners in the coal trade. Their house is now the Captain Cook Memorial Museum. Cook was taken on as a merchant navy apprentice in their small fleet of vessels, plying coal along the English coast. His
Seaman Nobby Hall Seaman Nobby Hall James Hall (15 October 1892 – 13 November 1953), better known as Seaman Nobby Hall, was a Scottish boxer who was British and European lightweight champion between 1922 and 1923. Born in Peebles in 1892, James Hall began his professional boxing career in 1917. A sailor on the Royal Navy, he won several Imperial Services Championships, but began his pro career with two defeats. In February 1919 he beat former British bantamweight champion Curley Walker on points and in November drew with Ted Moore. In August 1921 he took a notable scalp when he beat former British,