Whitley Bay’s Spanish City: Fun, History & Seaside Vibes!

Travelling via Northern Rail train and Newcastle Tyne and Wear Metro to England's Spanish City in Whitley Bay. In this short video, I travel to Whitley Bay, the second time I've every visited, with the first being a Metallica concert at the Whitley Bay ice rink in 1992. I take a walk around the town to see what's there. Why not join me?

Whitley Bay's Spanish City:

The Spanish City is a dining and leisure centre in Whitley Bay, a seaside town in North Tyneside, Tyne & Wear, England. Erected as a smaller version of Blackpool's Pleasure Beach, it opened in 1910 as a concert hall, restaurant, roof garden and tearoom. A ballroom was added in 1920 and later a permanent funfair.

Located near the seafront, the Spanish City has a 180 ft-long (54.8 m) Renaissance-style frontage and became known for its distinctive dome, now a Grade II listed building. There are towers on either side of the entrance, each of which carries a half-life-size female bacchanalian figure in copper, one holding cymbals, the other a tambourine. The building's architects were Robert Burns Dick, Charles T. Marshall and James Cackett.

The band Dire Straits mentioned the Spanish City in their 1980 single, "Tunnel of Love", which from then on was played every morning when it opened. By the late 1990s the building had fallen into disrepair, and in the early 2000s it was closed to the public. A regeneration project was announced in 2011. The building reopened as a dining and leisure centre at the end of July 2018. (Wiki)

Chapter timestamps:
00:00 The North Sea
00:23 Whitley Bay Beach
01:44 Spanish City
02:26 Memorial & Garden
03:30 To The Beach
05:59 St Mary's Lighthouse
07:22 Final Thoughts

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