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Whitley Bay is a seaside town in the North Tyneside borough in Tyne and Wear, England. It was formerly governed as part of Northumberland and has been part of Tyne and Wear since 1974. It is part of the wider Tyneside built-up area, being around 10 miles (16 km) east of Newcastle upon Tyne .
St Mary's Island, sometimes referred to as Bait Island is a small sandstone island near the seaside resort of Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, England. It is a Local Nature Reserve . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
North Tyneside based film company, ACT 2 CAM, made a film in 2013 about the life of a young fishwife, entitled The Cullercoats Fishlass. The story follows the fortunes of a young fishwife living at the turn of the 20th century. Over 150 young people aged 8–18 were engaged in the creation of the film, working on screen and behind the camera. [24]
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Lighthouse at sunset. The lighthouse was decommissioned in 1984 [7] (two years after its conversion to automatic operation). The revolving sealed beam array was reused two years later (in reduced form) on the Inner Dowsing light platform in the North Sea, as part of its conversion to become 'the first major lighthouse to be run using solar power'. [5]
Whitley Bay developed into a holiday resort in the late 18th- and early 19th-centuries; it was provided with a railway station in 1882, from which an Esplanade road lead to a sea-front Promenade. Discussing a 1908 pier proposal, the Evening Chronicle noted that the notion of a pier at Whitley bay had been 'heartily supported' by visitors to the ...
Monkseaton is an area of Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England.Historically in Northumberland, it is in the north-east of the borough, 3 ⁄ 4 mile (1.2 kilometres) from the North Sea coast and 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi (2.5 km) north of the River Tyne at North Shields. [3]
The town mentioned in the song, Cullercoats, is a stop on the train line (now part of the Tyne and Wear Metro) along the coast from Whitley Bay. Other pop-culture references include Spanish City (2002), a novel by Sarah May , set in the fictional north-east town of Setton, home to an amusement park called the Spanish City.