INSIDE WHITLEY BAY'S OLD POLICE STATION AND CELLS

This is a walk around the inside of Whitley Bay's old police station and former Magistrates court. I have tried to get in this place a few times in the last few years but could never get in, when they started demolition of part of the property (which I was told was part of an old sweet factory) I tried again although the magistrates court and the rooms are stripped it was nice to see the old cells still in one piece. I was told there was an underground shooting range here, but all I could find was stairs going underground to a boiler room. It will now be converted into posh flats and parking spaces.

[@r1bew42]

Joined the Police in 1993. At N Shields. My heart is breaking seeing this. 😢

[@michaelhole4894]

Lived in Whitley Bay 60's and 70's. Can't remember visiting that.

[@Urbexalex105]

i just went today i got downstairs where the staircase was gone i found a ladder and climbed down to the bottom floor it was quite good

[@SuperiorNizzle]

Grew up on Clifton terrace just behind the police station. There was a mask? In one of the windows for years. Creeped me out when I was younger.

[@geoffmount]

aye - old Welch's sweet factory next door. Sure they a place up on Norham Road, in N Shields.

[@geoffmount]

Used to have toffee vats on Laburnam Ave. - recall the sweet smell that would come from there.

[@Fatty2-sj8vr]

@@geoffmount aye they did you could smell the toffee and certain times of the day.

[@r1bew42]

They did. I was a Polis. Joined 93. The old Welch's factory kept on getting broke into. We were tasked with sorting it. We sat inside the factory on Norham Rd for 4 nights on the trot waiting for them to break in. They never came back. We were ill because we were allowed by the factory management to eat what we liked. They had huge multiple stacks of trays on wheels of sweets. It was like Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, but with young Polis's sitting inside. Great memories

[@Ann-oi]

Took my daughters there once for a talking to because they'd conspired to nick a bit of money off me. Coppers thought it was great and wished more parents did the same. They didn't like the look of the cells mind 😂

[@geordieurbex2200]

@@Ann-oi did it teach them a lesson?

[@Fatty2-sj8vr]

Looks like its been desserted for a long long time. I remember getting my id there so i could drink in pubs remember those prove your 18 id you could get back in 90s?

[@geordieurbex2200]

It's been like this for years, just couldn't get in, this place would have been chocka in the 90s when whitley was the place to be

[@Fatty2-sj8vr]

@geordieurbex2200 I could well imagine it what was. Even the 90s whitley was a totally different place compared to now.

[@michaelhole4894]

@@geordieurbex2200 60's and 70's for me, only left Whitley Bay when I was at the ice rink playing hockey. (With Alfie Miller)

[@SepOfficial1]

Aye shame it's being demolished like

[@geordieurbex2200]

Getting turned into posh flats