EPW019773 ENGLAND (1927). The Spanish City Fairground, Whitley Bay, 1927
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| Title | [EPW019773] The Spanish City Fairground, Whitley Bay, 1927 |
| Reference | EPW019773 |
| Date | 18-October-1927 |
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| Place name | WHITLEY BAY |
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| District | |
| Country | ENGLAND |
| Easting / Northing | 435363, 572655 |
| Longitude / Latitude | -1.4464767248453, 55.047069281995 |
| National Grid Reference | NZ354727 |
Pins
 Later became The Scrambler. |
 micksharp |
Thursday 19th of April 2018 01:50:24 PM |
| The Great Aerial Flight. |
micksharp |
Friday 16th of February 2018 11:43:41 AM |
| The Great Aerial Flight. |
micksharp |
Friday 16th of February 2018 11:37:10 AM |
| Remnants of the original 1908 Spanish City. Wooden walls constructed and painted to look like a Spanish town. Unfortunatelly, you can only see the back here! |
micksharp |
Friday 16th of February 2018 11:35:57 AM |
| The boating lake, the remaining part of the Water Chute which was demolished to make way for the Virginia Reel in about 1927. |
micksharp |
Friday 16th of February 2018 11:29:05 AM |
| The Figure 8 rollercoaster, built 1909. |
micksharp |
Friday 16th of February 2018 11:28:11 AM |
| The Virginia Reel, built at Whitley Bay under the supervision of its American creator, Henry Elmer Riehl. Mr Riehl moved to Whitley Bay. |
micksharp |
Friday 16th of February 2018 11:27:37 AM |
| Spanish City.
This link tells all. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_City |
John Wass |
Wednesday 21st of June 2017 07:26:18 PM |
| The Kursaal theatre opened on 22nd March 1913. It was destroyed by fire in 1931 and rebuilt as the Playhouse. |
Caroline |
Tuesday 20th of November 2012 10:03:52 AM |
User Comment Contributions
The famous Spanish City Fairground was opened in 1910, just a day after the death of King Edward VII, and it included a concert hall, restaurant, roof gardens and tearoom. A ballroom was added ten years later, so I guess this shot captures the place in its prewar heyday. It is now a Grade II listed building and there are ambitious plans for future development on the site. |
 John Swain |
Wednesday 21st of August 2013 07:54:14 PM |
The big dipper roller-coaster was scary more because of its wooden construction than the design of the track, it was a shake, rattle and roll and seemed huge to me. The serpentine ride in the foreground was long gone by the time I knew the Spanish city, it looks interesting though. |
Ian Tindal |
Tuesday 26th of June 2012 09:23:45 PM |