EPW019766 ENGLAND (1927). St Paul's Church and environs, Whitley Bay, 1927

see comment posted by ccz18 on 26 June.

see also references to nursery and Steel's Quarry in Whitley Seaside Chronicle, inter alia :-

Opening of G. Steel & Sons, market garden. Nursery gardens at Whitley Bay, opposite St Paul's Church. Mr Steel came from Berwick and determined to make this a success. The land had evidently been a garden of some sort many years ago, for in addition to a wilderness of weeds three feet deep, there was at one corner the dilapidated remains of a frame house, with a few bits of broken glass still attached. WSC 19.1.1907

letter from G. Steel & Sons, complaining that he is to be forced out of his nursery gardens by the Council; tenant since 29.9.1901; over 200 years old, a landmark; part of Fat Ox pub until 3.4.1673, when sold to John Rutherford of North Shields as old orchard; later bought by Duke of Northumberland; vineries of John Mavin were derelict in 1901, as was rest of ground; the road has been repaired by the Council, who do not need the extra land, and he wants to stay as tenant. WSC 1.9.1929

death of G. Steel 16.10.1937, age 88; started in Whitley Bay 1900 on ground opposite St Paul's Church, now occupied as shops. WSC 22.10.1937

Didn't this site later become Whitley Bay Bus Station - the terminus for United buses to Newcastle

The bus station was to the left (in this view), on another part of the old Whitley Dairy farmstead. References include:-

United Automobile Services to build a new bus station next to Post Office, Whitley Seaside Chronicle 10.1.1936 & WSC 17.1.1936; United Automobile Services bus station nearing completion, WSC 18.9.1936; Whitley Bay public library opened at United bus station, WSC 5.1.1940; United Automobile will not agree lease of public library, due to proposed nationalisation of bus companies, WSC 18.9.1946;

empty bus station premises to be used as nightclub, Whitley Bay Guardian 21.6.1968; extensions to bus station garage, WBG 21.6.1968.