Someone has started a Facebook group collecting photographs and memories of Whitley Bay’s romantic seaside heyday and the grim interval of it’s recent decline. If you’ve a Facebook account, and you’re signed in, you can click through any of the photos to see the comments. People are recognising grandparents, owners of fairground rides, remembering holidays, work pals, cousins, fights and kisses.
On this photograph, someone comments:
Ha theres sonny thompson walking the donkey… still got the first threepeny piece he made also..
and
The ponies in this picture are Geogie top left, Tommy in the centre and Lynn to the right and probably my sister Anne Grey pulling it along…. we worked on wb beach for years and years and had great fun….
The women in this photograph are the Symington dynasty and staff, famous for their shellfish, candy floss, toffee apple shops and kiosks. The photograph below is the front of Flo Symington’s shop. Again, click through to see comments and info from her children and grandchildren.
The building of Spanish City c 1910.
Wonderful stuff. Thank you all.
The good news is that Whitley Bay is at last getting the benefit of some regeneration cash, and just before the biggest recession starts to really bite, is in the middle of a major refurb of parts of the town’s sea front attractions. More from the apparently diabolical local council, this lovely home made website and the Wikipedia page. £60 million doesn’t sound awfully much, does it?
Whitley Bay
Someone has started a Facebook group collecting photographs and memories of Whitley Bay’s romantic seaside heyday and the grim interval of it’s recent decline. If you’ve a Facebook account, and you’re signed in, you can click through any of the photos to see the comments. People are recognising grandparents, owners of fairground rides, remembering holidays, work pals, cousins, fights and kisses.
On this photograph, someone comments:
and
The women in this photograph are the Symington dynasty and staff, famous for their shellfish, candy floss, toffee apple shops and kiosks. The photograph below is the front of Flo Symington’s shop. Again, click through to see comments and info from her children and grandchildren.
The building of Spanish City c 1910.
Wonderful stuff. Thank you all.
The good news is that Whitley Bay is at last getting the benefit of some regeneration cash, and just before the biggest recession starts to really bite, is in the middle of a major refurb of parts of the town’s sea front attractions. More from the apparently diabolical local council, this lovely home made website and the Wikipedia page. £60 million doesn’t sound awfully much, does it?
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