Whitley Bay
Whitley Bay shown within Tyne and Wear
Population	35,000
OS grid reference	NZ3572
Metropolitan borough	North Tyneside
Metropolitan county	Tyne & Wear
Region	North East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WHITLEY BAY
Postcode district	NE25/NE26
Dialling code	0191
Police	Northumbria
Fire	Tyne and Wear
Ambulance	North East
UK Parliament	Tynemouth
European Parliament	North East England
List of places: UK • England • Tyne and Wear

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Whitley Bay is a town in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. It is on the North Sea coast and boasts a fine stretch of beach of golden sand forming a Bay stretching from St Mary's Island in the north to Cullercoats in the south. The town, which has a population of about 35,000, became a holiday destination for the people of North East England and Scotland and remained popular in this regard until the 1980s. The town is now widely seen as a dormitory town for Newcastle upon Tyne. North Tyneside is a metropolitan borough in the North East of England, part of the Tyne and Wear urban area centred on Newcastle and formerly part of Northumberland. ... Tyne and Wear is a metropolitan county in the North East of England around the mouths of the Rivers Tyne and Wear. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. ... View of St Marys Lighthouse on St Marys Island, from the mainland St. ... Cullercoats is an urban area of North East England, now absorbed into the Tyneside conurbation sits between Tynemouth and Whitley Bay. ... North-East England is one of the nine official regions of England and comprises the combined area of Northumberland, County Durham, Tyne and Wear and a small part of North Yorkshire. ... This article is about the country. ... The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ... This article or section should be merged with Bedroom community A dormitory town is generally a rural town where a large proportion of its population commute to nearby cities. ... This article is about a city in the United Kingdom. ...

Districts of Whitley Bay

• Beaumont Park
• Brierdene
• Hillheads
• Monkseaton
• Red House Farm
• Wellfield
• West Monkseaton
• Whitley Lodge

St Mary's Lighthouse, Whitley Bay

Beaumont Park is a 1970s Executive housing development in Whitley Bay, bordered by Monkseaton Drive to the south, and the old Blyth to Whitley waggonway to the east. ... Brierdene is a small residential area near the town of Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, England. ... Monkseaton is an area near Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, in the northeast of England. ... Wellfield and South Wellfield is an area of Whitley Bay, between West Monkseaton and Earsdon. ... This page may meet Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... Whitley Lodge is an area of Whitley Bay, in Tyne and Wear in North East England. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (3072 × 2304 pixels, file size: 2. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (3072 × 2304 pixels, file size: 2. ...

History

The area is rich in history. Whitley was first mentioned about the year 1100 when Henry I conferred it with other possessions on the Priory of Tynemouth being referred to in ancient documents and maps before that date as Witelei, Wyteley, Hwyteleg, Witelithe, Wheteley, Wytheleye, Whitlaw, Whitlathe and Whitlag. Whitley is also referred to in the Charters of Henry II, Richard I and John, confirming to the priors their possessions and liberties.

Whitley was connected with the Crusades when Pope Nicholas IV granted to Edward I the first-fruits and tenths of all ecclesiastical possessions for six years to defray the expenses of an expedition to the Holy Land. A valuation was made of the spiritual and temporal goods of the Priory on March 26th. 1292, when the yearly rents from Whitley were returned as 20s., and the tithes as 9 marks.

About the beginning of the fourteenth century, the manor of Whitley was held from the Prior of Tynemouth by a singular feudal service called the Conveyes which seems to have originated from John de Whitley. Richard de Emeldon, eighteen times Mayor of Newcastle and seven times its representative in Parliament, was the Lord of the manor of Whitley in 1333.

On 9th. April 1345, Edward III granted to Gilbert de Whitley a licence to crenellate his manor-house at Whitley. To crenallate a house was to place battlements upon it and before this could be done, the sanction of the Crown was necessary. The need was an indication of the insecurity felt even this far south during the Edwardian wars with Scotland.

After the suppression of the monasteries, Whitley was held under the Crown for a time. By a grant of Edward VI dated 8th December 1551, it came into the hands of Dudley, Earl of Warwick who was created Duke of Northumberland. It remained in the Percy family until 1632. After this time the area appeared to be let at a yearly rental to various holders until it came into the possession of the Duke of Somerset on his marriage in 1682 with Elizabeth, the heiress of Joscelyn, the eleventh Earl of Northumberland. Whitley subsequently passed by inheritance to her granddaughter Elizabeth Seymour who had married Sir Hugh Smithson, a Yorkshire baronet, afterwards created Duke of Northumberland. Whitley has since been retained by descendants and the present Duke of Northumberland is the Lord of the manor and principal landowner.

Monkseaton, which forms the greater part of the North-west of the district is also very old and its industries were common with those of Whitley being chiefly coal mining and limestone quarrying. Monkseaton is an area near Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, in the northeast of England. ... Surface coal mining in Wyoming. ... For other uses, see Limestone (disambiguation). ...

1873 saw an event of importance in the Town's history by the establishment of the Whitley and Monkseaton Local Board. The district of the Local Board became the Urban District of Whitley and Monkseaton. From the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth century the adverse effects of the decline of local coal mining and dependent industries in the area were ameliorated by the emergence of Whitley as a sea-side holiday resort. On the 1st. January 1944 the Whitley and Monkseaton Urban District became the Whitley Bay Urban District and on 5th. March, 1954 it was granted its Royal Charter of Incorporation as the Borough of Whitley Bay. The Charter was presented by H.R.H. The Princess Royal at a ceremony in the town held on 14th. April 1954. 1873 (MDCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

REFERENCES: * All of the above is an extract from material compiled and edited for the Borough of Whitley Bay by the Charter Town Clerk, Arthur S. Ruddock M.B.E. and published in the official Charter Publication.

The Whitley Bay Parish Church is St Paul's. St Pauls Church is the parish church of Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, United Kingdom. ...

The Local Government Act 1972 abolished the Borough, with Hartley in the north of the borough going to Blyth Valley district in Northumberland, and the main part including Whitley and Monkseaton forming part of the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear. The town is in the constituency of Tynemouth and its MP is Alan Campbell for the Labour Party. Councillors of the Whitley Bay ward of North Tyneside Council are Alison Austin, Michael McIntyre and Margaret Marshall. The other wards which cover the town are Cullercoats, Monkseaton North, Monkseaton South and St Mary's. The Local Government Act 1972 (1972 c. ... Hartley is an historic village in Northumberland, England. ... Blyth Valley is a borough and district in south-east Northumberland, England, bordering the North Sea and Tyne and Wear. ... Tynemouth beach This article concerns itself with the village. ... Alan Campbell (born July 8, 1957) British politician. ... The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ... ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the assessment scale. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

The loss of government of the town by its local borough council seems to have robbed it of the civic pride which was once evident in its heyday as a sea-side resort, the result being apparent in its declined appearance and lack of continuing development.

There are two high schools in the town, Whitley Bay High School and Monkseaton High School. Whitley Bay High School is a comprehensive school in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, England. ... Monkseaton Community High School is a mixed, comprehensive school situated in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, England for 13-18 year olds. ...

Attractions

Whitley Bay was famous for its permanent seaside fairground The Spanish City, which is currently undergoing redevelopments. The Fairground returns to the town on Bank Holiday weekends, the Easter and Summer holidays, but is now located on 'the Links', an expansive seafront park opposite to the original Spanish City site. The Spanish City Dome, which is a Grade 2 Listed building, is to become the centre piece of a multimillion pound "regeneration" of the sea front complex, which will include hotel and leisure developments. Also in the town is St. Mary's Lighthouse. The Spanish City is the subject of the Dire Straits song Tunnel of Love, along with Whitley Bay and the nearby town Cullercoats. Ferris wheel Amusement park is the more generic term for a collection of amusement rides and other entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a fairly large group of people. ... Whitley Bay, a seaside town in the North East of England, was famous for its permanent seaside fairground called The Spanish City, which was demolished for redevelopment (including a new school) in the late 1990s. ... The lighthouse at dawn St. ... Whitley Bay, a seaside town in the North East of England, was famous for its permanent seaside fairground called The Spanish City, which was demolished for redevelopment (including a new school) in the late 1990s. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Cullercoats is an urban area of North East England, now absorbed into the Tyneside conurbation sits between Tynemouth and Whitley Bay. ...

The ice rink was also the region's premier concert venue until the Newcastle Arena (now Metro Radio Arena) opened in 1995. The venue played host to the top names in the music industry throughout the 1980s and 1990s, such as The Cure in 1985, Oasis in 1994 and the Stone Roses in 1995, as well as a one off night to the World Wrestling Federation. Whitley Bay Ice Rink is an ice rink in Whitley Bay and is the home of the Whitley Warriors ice hockey team. ... The Metro Radio Arena Newcastle is a 11,000 seat sports and entertainment venue based in Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England. ... This article is about the band. ... Oasis is World-famous English rock band, formed in Manchester in 1991, led by lead guitarist and primary songwriter Noel Gallagher and his younger brother, lead vocalist and songwriter Liam Gallagher. ... The Stone Roses were an influential English rock band from Manchester formed in 1984. ... World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ...

The Park View Shopping Centre opened in 2004 after many years of deliberation, linking the many fine niche retailers on Park View with the High Street retailers in the town centre and with its roof top car park also adding 173 much needed car parking spaces. Shops with premises on this site include Marks and Spencer, Superdrug and Boots. Marks and Spencer plc (known also as M&S and sometimes colloquially as Marks and Sparks) is the largest retailer in the United Kingdom by sales. ... Superdrug on Oxford Street Superdrug is the UKs second largest health and beauty retail chain (behind Boots) and the sixth largest overall (behind Boots, Tesco, Sainsburys, ASDA and Morrisons). ... Boots is the name of at least five different albums and singles: Boots by Nancy Sinatra (1966) Boots by Mighty Gabby (1984) Boots by Condemned Eighty Four (2001) Boots by KMFDM (2002) Boots by Noe Venable (2003) It is also the name of a large chain of chemists in the...

Whitley Bay is around nine miles from Newcastle upon Tyne and is connected to the Tyne and Wear Metro, with stations at Whitley Bay, Monkseaton, West Monkseaton and Cullercoats. It is about a twenty-five minute journey from Newcastle city centre on the Metro. The Tyne and Wear Metro is a light rail metro system based around Newcastle upon Tyne and Sunderland, in the county of Tyne and Wear in North East England. ... Whitley Bay Metro station is a station on the Yellow line of the Tyne and Wear Metro network, in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, England. ... Monkseaton Metro station is a station on the Yellow line of the Tyne and Wear Metro network, in Monkseaton, North Tyneside, England. ... West Monkseaton Metro station is a station on the Tyne and Wear Metro which originally opened by the LNER in 1933. ... Cullercoats metro station in 2005 Cullercoats station was originally built by the North Eastern Railway as part of the North Tyneside Loop, it first opened on the 7 July 1882. ... The Tyne and Wear Metro is a light rail metro system based around Newcastle upon Tyne and Sunderland, in the county of Tyne and Wear in North East England. ...

The local newspaper, The News Guardian is published once a week from its offices in the town. It is printed at The Journal in nearby Newcastle upon Tyne. The alternative free weekly paper is the Chronicle Extra, formerly known as the Herald and Post. For those who want a more satirical slant on their local news, the town's very own spoof newspaper the Whitley Bay Citizen started in 2000 and has recently been relaunched. The News Guardian, commonly called the Whitley Bay Guardian, is a free weekly newspaper serving North Tyneside. ... The Journal is a daily newspaper produced in Newcastle upon Tyne. ... This article is about a city in the United Kingdom. ... Chronicle Extra (formerly known as The Herald and Post) is a free Newspaper delivered weekly to residents in the Tyne and Wear area. ... The Herald & Post is a weekly freesheet that delivers to households in much of the UK. It is published by a variety of publishers and each version consists mainly of advertising and promotional pieces, with news items sourced from sister publications. ...

Nightlife

Whitley Bay is known widely throughout the UK as a destination for 'stag' and 'hen' parties, especially on Bank Holiday weekends. This is the source of some consternation to local residents, many of whom believe that the town's nightlife brings with it an unsavoury reputation as well as disruption and anti-social behaviour. Others see the boisterous nightlife of the town as a valuable source of revenue and as a source of excitement and interest for the now largely derelict town.

The principal location for (mostly but not exclusively) young partygoers is South Parade, a street lined with bars, hotels, guest houses and restaurants that curves down from the town centre to the sea front.A limited amount of bars, hotels etc. are to be found along the sea-front.

The bars in the town centre tend to be more traditional and are spread out over a large area of the centre. These however are not a major attraction for the Nightlife crowd as they tend to stick to the South Parade area.

There are many restaurants and takeaways in Whitley Bay that cater for just about every taste: Indian, Chinese, Italian, Thai, fusion, Tex-Mex, as well as kebabs and the staple fish and chips.

Park View

Park View is a shopping street that runs roughly north to south parallel to the sea-front. It is a continuation of Whitley Road, the town's principal thoroughfare, but is particularly well-known locally for being the location of numerous independent shops, rather than chains or franchises, that cater for a wide variety of consumer demand. Women's clothes and accessories shops are present in number, and there are several cafes. There are a couple of delicatessens and 'niche' food shops, as well as a popular butcher's shop. There are also several art/bric-a-brac shops, some second-hand/charity shops, a toy shop, a pet shop, a Scottish regalia shop, a newsagents, a therapy centre, and a joke/party goods shop, as well as the inevitable plethora of estate agents.

Regeneration

Abandoned Amusements on the Whitley Bay seafront

£60 million was earmarked by the government for a regeneration scheme in Whitley Bay. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1280x960, 127 KB) Talk of the Town. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1280x960, 127 KB) Talk of the Town. ...

At the heart of the scheme is the redevelopment of the Spanish City site. In 1912 the dome was completed and the Spanish City has been a focal point for events and entertainment. For many years it was home to a theme park with rides and attractions servicing droves of holiday makers spending time in this lively coastal town.

On 20 February 2007, a landmark decision was made by Labour and Liberal Democrats councillors voting 11 to 8 and 10 to 9 against Conservative councillors to regenerate the Spanish City and Whitley Bay. The £60 million scheme will see the full refurbishment of the Whitley Bay Playhouse and cultural hub within the iconic Dome on the seafront. A skatepark in the Panama Dip, a new Library and Council Office, a refurbished swimming pool, new housing to include 10% as affordable homes and an extended Whitley Park with play areas for toddlers and older children. An outdoor events area will make use of the green open space in fine weather. The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the assessment scale. ... The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is currently the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), the largest in terms of public membership, and the oldest political party in the United Kingdom. ...

Football

Whitley Bay F.C. play at the town's Hillheads Stadium, which is adjacent to the Ice Rink. The Hillheads Stadium is in the east of town and holds approximately 4500 spectators with 250 seats in the main stand. Now playing in the Northern League Division One, the club hit the national sports headlines in 2002 after winning the FA Vase (amateur FA Cup), beating Tiptree United at Villa Park. The club had previously hit the headlines in 1990 after beating Preston North End on the way to reaching the 3rd round proper of the FA Cup. Whitley Bay Football Club is an English football club in the Northern League Division One. ... The Arngrove Northern League Division One is the highest division in the Northern League, a Step 5 league in the English football National League System. ... The Football Association Challenge Vase is an annual football competition for teams playing in the lower regional leagues of England. ... This article is about the English FA Cup. ... Tiptree United F.C. is a football club based in Tiptree in Essex, England. ... Villa Park is a football stadium in the district of Aston, in Birmingham, England. ... Preston North End Football Club are an English professional football club located in the Deepdale area of the city of Preston, Lancashire, currently playing in the second tier of English league football, The Championship. ... This article is about the English FA Cup. ...

The majority of the town's residents are supporters of Newcastle United Football Club, who play in the English Premier League. Newcastle United Football Club (also known as The Magpies or The Toon) are an English professional football team based in Newcastle upon Tyne. ... For the Scottish equivalent see Scottish Premier League The FA Premier League (often referred to as the Barclays Premiership in England and the Barclays English Premier League or just simply The EPL internationally) is a league competition for football clubs located at the top of the English football league system...

Ice hockey

Whitley Bay Ice Rink is home of Whitley Warriors Ice Hockey Club. The team enjoyed great success together with local rivals Durham Wasps at a national level during the 1980s and early 1990s. Whitley Bay Ice Rink is an ice rink in Whitley Bay and is the home of the Whitley Warriors ice hockey team. ... Whitley Warriors are an ice hockey team based in Whitley Bay in the north east of England. ... League: British National League Founded: 1947 Home Ice: Durham Ice Rink Capacity: 2860 Ice Size: 180ft x 80ft City: Durham, United Kingdom Colours: White, Blue, and Gold Head Coach: Unknown Ownership: Unknown The Durham Wasps was an ice hockey team located in Durham, England and was one of the UK...

Rugby

Whitley Bay Rockcliff RFC play at the Lovaine Avenue ground in Hillheads. Founded in 1887 as Rockcliff RFC, and still generally known as "Rockcliff", they were originally based on the sea front in the Rockcliff area of the town, prior to moving along the sea front to the site later occupied by the Spanish City. In 1907 they moved to the present site in Lovaine Avenue. The years immediately after formation and up to the First World War were the most successful in the clubs history, when they were one of the strongest sides in England, beating the world famous Barbarians FC in 1892, and producing a number of internationalist players including E.W "Little Billy" Taylor, who captained England in the 1890s. The introduction of the league structures in the late 1980s saw the club climb into the north east leagues in the early 1990s, and the best known player of this era is Paul van Zandvliet who went on to play for the premiership winning Newcastle Falcons. The club now plays in Durham and Northumberland Division 2. Rockcliff also hosts an annual end of season 10 a side rugby competition (the Super 10's), attracting touring sides from around the UK as well as local clubs. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... First match Hartlepool Rovers 4 - 9 Barbarians (27 December 1890) Largest win Scotland 31 - 74 Barbarians (24 May 2001) Worst defeat Barbarians 0 - 42 Wales (26 May 2004) The original Barbarians The Barbarian Football Club, typically referred to as Barbarians and nicknamed the Baa-Baas, is an invitational rugby union...

Field Hockey

Whitley Bay Ladies Hockey Club was formed in 1950 and consisted of a 1st XI - played at Hillheads Grammar School (now Marden Bridge Middle School and the present base). Founder members included Joan Walker - Secretary, Marjorie Sutcliffe, Jean Stockdale and Beryl Privett ( who is still President of the Club). Club colours at that time were white tee shirt, navy shorts and the famous red and yellow hooped socks, all topped off with a red blazer.

After a few seasons, the Club moved its base to Churchill Playing Fields in Whitley Bay and stayed there until the mid 1980s until astro-turf took over and then the Club was forced to move with the times and left the Coast to play at Wallsend Sports Centre. During that time, the Club set up a second XI and played in the Northumberland League and various County Tournaments with great success. The Junior Section trained bright and early on a Sunday morning at Valley Gardens and through this development saw the rise of some of our present Senior players such as Sophie Berry, Katrina Barber, Angela Millen to name but a few.

Through the 1980s and '90s, Whitley Bay continued to develop as a Club and from the 1st XI winning the County League, they got promoted to the North Feeder League, then to North Division 2, Division 1 and in the 2005-2006 season to the National League Division 2. A first for any women's hockey club in Northumberland. Another notable success in the Club's history occurred in April 2000, when the 1st XI won there way through to the EHA Knockout Cup Final down in Milton Keynes and played Birmingham University.

The Club has continued to grow and has had to move home base again and for the last 6 years have gone a full circle and ended back up at the Hillheads site which is now Marden Bridge. They now run 3 Senior teams and an Under 19 team which competes in the Harper League at Westgate College.

The Club is keen to develop and expand further and plans are in place to merge with Tynemouth Men's Hockey Club - which currently boasts 5 teams and a Junior Section, to become the largest and most successful hockey club in the North East. This merger is planned to happen at the end of this 2006/2007 season and should be the start of another chapter in the Club's long history.

Famous residents (past and present)

• Rudolph Abel^{[citation needed]} - Soviet super-spy (c. 1908-1921)
• Gladstone Adams^[1] - Inventor of the windscreen wiper and former Mayor
• Alun Armstrong^{[citation needed]} - actor
• Rowan Atkinson - actor, writer, comedian
• Michael Bridges - former Newcastle United and Sunderland player
• Mark Clattenburg - Barclays Premiership referee
• Christopher Dean - Olympic gold-medal winning ice-skater.
• Sid Drysdale - International bowls player - skippered the men's gold medal winning fours at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games held in Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
• Toby Flood - England rugby union international
• Paul Harvey - painter and Stuckist
• John Gilroy - artist of Guinness advertisement fame
• Robson Green - actor
• Richard Aitken - actor, poet, comedian
• Tom Hadaway - playwright
• Lee Hunter - actor from Steptoe and Son
• W. E. Johns - author of Biggles (c. 1925)
• Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits singer
• Ian La Frenais - Comedy writer, (The Likely Lads, Porridge, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet)
• Lighthouse Family - Northern soul band
• John McLaughlin - Guitarist for Miles Davis, and Mahavishnu Orchestra
• Nick Martin - News Correspondent, Channel 4 News - born and educated in Whitley Bay
• John Middleton - Actor (Emmerdale)
• John O'Rourke - painter and sculpter
• Peter Ramage - Newcastle United player. Also a former pupil at Whitley Bay High School
• Lucy Ratcliffe - won the first series of the Living TV programme Britain's Next Top Model.
• Oscar Samant-Laidlaw - a contestant on the CBBC gameshow Escape from Scorpion Island. Also a pupil at Whitley Bay High School
• Sid Smith Writer
• Laura Spence - schoolgirl at Monkseaton High School who was at the centre of a national political row about elitism in Higher Education in 2000 after being rejected by Oxford University
• Andy Taylor - Duran Duran guitarist
• Steven Taylor - Newcastle United player. Also a former pupil at Valley Gardens Middle School.
• Bobby Thompson - legendary local comedian
• Jayne Torvill - Olympic gold-medal winning ice-skater.
• Steve Tuplin - former Sunderland and Hartlepool United player. Now a Physical Education teacher at Whitley Bay High School.
• The Tygers of Pan Tang - 1980s rock group
• Emily Hilda Young - novelist
• Hilton Valentine - The Animals Guitarist
• Alan Angus - Former professional wrestler and Actor

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In Fiction

• In the BBC children's television series Byker Grove, Dave Richmond, the leader of the rival youth club at Denwell Burn, was a local drug dealer from Whitley Bay. His trademark act of violence was the "Whitley Smile".^[2]

• In the movie Purely Belter, Gerry's drug-addicted-sister Gemma is hiding out from her family at The Spanish City funfair in one of the waltzer cars on the Whitley Bay seafront.

• Several episodes of the 1980s ITV television program Supergran were filmed in Whitley Bay.

• The 2006 BBC sitcom Thin Ice was filmed in the town and at Whitley Bay Ice Rink.

• In comedy series 'The Fast Show', Paul Whitehouse can be seen in one sketch, walking through the Spanish City and along the seafront.

• Spanish City is the title of a novel by the Tyneside-born author Sarah May. Although the novel is set in the fictional seaside town of Setton, this setting bears a number of striking resemblances to Whitley Bay, not least of which is the idea of a leisure complex named "Spanish City" that, after a period of relative prosperity in the mid-twentieth century, has fallen into disrepair. The novel begins when an elderly teacher is kidnapped by disgruntled ex-pupils. The rest of the novel is narrated mainly in flashback.

• There are numerous references to Whitley Bay in the 1970s sitcom Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?. The series was set in the North-East of England, and was written by Dick Clement and locally-born Ian La Frenais.

• The song Chop That Child In Half by post-punk band The Mekons includes a reference to "the memory of a beach-hut in Whitley Bay".

• The music video for First Time I Ever Saw Your Face by duo Journey South was filmed along the beach and seafront in Whitley Bay.

• In The Catherine Tate Show, Geordie Georgie tries to get her co-worker Martin to sponsor her and her friends to pull a Boeing 747 from Whitley Bay to Tynemouth using only the B roads.

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References

1. ^ http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/hes.nsf/a/accelhersnippets?opendocument
2. ^ http://www.durham21.co.uk/archive/archive.asp?ID=3590

See also

• List of bands/musicians from North East England

External links

• Whitley Bay Citizen - spoof local newspaper
• The Online Directory for Whitley Bay
• Whitley Bay Ice Rink —
• Selection of pictures of Whitley Bay at flickr
• More pictures of Whitley Bay
• Whitley Bay High School
• Whitley Bay F.C official site
• Whitley Bay Rockcliff RFC official site
• Whitley Bay Ladies Hockey Club
• Tynetown - Town Centre web site for Whitley Bay
• Article on life in Whitley Bay

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