WHITLEY BAY & TYNEMOUTH.

The Good Old Days

[@sparkle935]

Tynemouth and Whitley bay are totally transformed and stunning places to visit now, the beaches and coastline are unrivalled, i go nearly every day to walk along the beautiful seafront and on the blue flag beaches, best place on earth !!💖☀️😎

[@WOLFIE-96B-UK]

Grew up in Whitley Bay, went to Whitley Bay Grammar School 1966-70. Was a fantastic town to grow up in, the Spanish City was the centre of life back then!

[@shirleygray4569]

Used to love going to the Plaza Tynemouth & Spanish City on School summer holidays with my friends eyeing the lads up🤗😁 great memories

[@starstruckone]

thanks for this, how i miss whitley bay days long gone.

[@patmackay7264]

Brings back memories so dear. Thanks for sharing

[@jacklambert3117]

Spent a lot of my time down by the pool in the fifties and sixties.Sunbathing,playing football and having a drink at the beachcomber.Happy days.Thanks for the memories.

[@andreajones2007]

I was brought up in Whitley Bay in the 50s and 60s . When i look back now i know how lucky i was. The summer holidays from school were just one big holiday, such happy memories, so sad it's all gone... Thanks for putting this clip on here !

[@janicethompson6757]

I used to spend all my summer holiday at Tynemouth Pool, fantastic memories of being with my family & friends & Memories by Elvis is just beautiful ❤

[@peterquirk9742]

Great to see the outdoor pool again great memories remember how busy it was in the summer of 76 Longsands busy every day that was the year I joined the Merchant Navy

[@LesleyTanMortyMortisha]

Lovely and soulful

[@Skylark24]

So very sad... whatever has become of our country? I wasn't born until 1991 - I used to love trips to the seaside in my childhood, but I see now that I was born thirty years too late! Even so, the seasides have continued to decline - there's hardly anything left there for my nephews and nieces and I know if I ever have children the joy of a trip to the seaside will be nothing but a distant memory. Tragedy. Oh, what I'd do to turn the clock back and step into those old photographs!

[@davyscales7732]

That outdoor pool was great, diving in the water certainly made the heart beat faster.

[@123evanda]

Wish I could go back in time

[@brianmorrison9168]

Lovely film and nice to see my home town of Whitley Bay on KZbin. I realise the video is over 10 years old now and you have to admit W/Bay was looking pretty run down in ceretain areas, but thankfully there have been vast improvements, especially to the sea front and the Spanish City. @1:12 Wow, that pool in Tynemouth looks fantastic .. a far cry from the shambles it looks now although I think there are folk trying to raise funds to restore it. Regards

[@conspiracygaming5612]

I do wish Whitley bay tynemouth was still like this dream come true

[@Vfourmike]

just found this whilst uploading my youtube video trying to promote getting the outdoor pool back into use. Brings back memories of when I was a kid growing up in Tynemouth. :) How time flies.

[@creasyi1]

simply the best

[@braddazztravels6004]

It's pictures like the first few that made Britain great. Nice collection 👍 Shame it's been left to rot.

[@25Busterdog]

So sad. I remember Whitley Bay in the '40s and '50s, it was such an exciting place in the summer and very staid and respectable during the rest of the year. Poignant!

[@hpvspeedmachine4183]

EU faults

[@lindsaymiller6426]

Those were the best days of my life memories oh yes the best with jam and dad and sis 😘❤️

[@cambo2910]

Not a Geordie but lived in Whitley Bay for thirty years from 1977 to 2007 and except for the winter months loved it.

[@christinethornhill]

These were our yearly day trip to the coast destinations !!!! My ,how times have changed , life was oh so simple then . 😿

[@sixtiesmods]

Good Video - Luv the Tune

[@Newcastleunited1969]

Proud to be from Newcastle ⚫️⚪️⚫️⚪️

[@gbreeve312]

I'm from Newcastle and live in Florida now, but I go back to Northumberland at least once a year.

[@northeastrc2725]

Very cool

[@knolly57]

There's as much of Tynemouth as there is of Whitley Bay here. I worked on the shuggyboats, wheel roundabouts and boats on Whitley sands in the 1950s. At least they've made a start on the regeneration of the Spanish City. Hope it's not too late.

[@newcastleboy72]

Thanks for posting,brought back some great memories of trips to the seaside from Wallsend,never heard that track before too,going to watch Whitley Bay at Wembley today.

[@mommy56]

made me cry ... My granparents and dad ran stalls in the Spanner ..mY aunts ran the cafe and my parents ran the crescendo Club ... what a shame

[@doonhilla]

Crazy to see how much Whitley has changed over the years. Spent a lot of my time as a kid in the arcades back when it was a bustling weekend/holiday destination, then when old enough to drink The Avenue was our local. Really sad to see how run down the place got for a good few years. Although spruced up, it'll never be the same, which is a shame. So many memories.

[@competentartistes7176]

Thanks so much Dave, your images jarred me into remembering my childhood, how lucky we were...still remember the first theatre show I went to at that big beach building, a pant of Puss in Boots, and at the age of 3 thinking even then wasn't it strange that there were cross-dressers on stage, as somehow the male lead was an attractive girl! and also in that building, the gaming arcade with photos of stars even I didn't know, like Gina Lollobrigida...

[@grapiken7766]

How sad! What a shame. They should have kept Spanish City as an amusement park, but a classy one, like a mini Tivoli Gardens. Whitley Bay doesn't know what it is anymore. The town centre is a dump. Tynemouth is still lovely though. Thanks for the video. 

[@elainekayes1449]

Great memories of this place once a year we used To go here

[@TheHendonKissArmy]

Wonderful pictures. I used to holiday every year with my gran since 1972 then my moved back in 1984. Her funeral was yesterday at St georges cullercoats at the end if Tynemouth Longsands. I love to visit Whitley Bay and Tynemouth but sad seeing what has become of Whitley. I hope they do invest much needed money but the world is in a such a mess I doubt it.

[@djsiimz]

No one really goes to Whitley anymore the council put a stop to that RIP Whitley Bay

[@slidebed138]

Brought up in Whitley bay so sad to see it now it’s shockingly bad.

[@gnomely1]

@andreajones2007 I was growing up in Whitley Bay then and have such wonderful memories of the town. We were lucky to know the place then when it was a good place to live. I don't know what it is about Whitley but it evokes such nostalgia in people who grew up there and knew it then. I went back ten years ago and was saddened to see the deterioration but there was still the ghost of the past in some places and I felt a great fondness for those days half a century ago. I wish you peace.

[@kopynd1]

great days sugar and bread, nothing wrong with that, a miss roller rink

[@davidharrison6615]

what they did to the swimming pool was just evil .

[@reggiesonnybennett]

brilliant

[@mrjthamster9452]

come visit now, such a difference,

[@fgillings]

This should be renamed Tynemouth and Whitley Bay. Nice images.

[@Jeffybonbon]

when you think what was on our coast now its a mess thanks council

[@Jeffybonbon]

as a geordie this hurts a lot what have they done to the coast

[@Briancollison]

some of these photos are Tynemouth longsands, where it shows outdoor swimming pool, so that is first and last photos are Tynemouth Longsands.

[@dilithium72]

Having cycled up the East coast, last year, through Hunstanton, Skegness, Withernsea, Scarborough, Whitby, Redcar, etc, Most of the coastline is like this, now. Why go on holiday here, when you can jump on a plane and be in sunny costa-whereverville for a few hundred quid? Having said that... get a sunny day, during the school hol's and Tynemouth Haven, Long Sands and Cullercoats Bay are packed. The gaming arcades will never return because of consoles and mobile phones and the remaining clusters of one-armed bandits are making two-penny gamblers out of everyone! The new idea for restaurants in Whitley Bay is a step in the right direction, I think, but without one, big attraction (at least), it'll not get people coming back. I really hope it works, though. I've just moved back to the North-East! :)

[@fgillings]

Pictures of Tynemouth and Whitley Bay from before the war up until today. This is much like the above youtube video site ending in the snow covered Tynemouth beach

[@VideosFromMe2010]

@mrmagicroundcircle The Ship is still here. I live right next to it.

[@robertarmstrong2470]

Covid bs has shut it down for good, All pubs clubs cafes and restaraunts will be strangled/starved, thats when lockdown might end, but i doubt it.

[@VideosFromMe2010]

@@robertarmstrong2470 oook. I wrote that 9yrs ago. Don’t really know why you’ve come along to say it’s closed now due to Covid when almost everything is closed due to it 🤷🏻‍♀️ at the time of my comment it was open 🙄

[@mrmagicroundcircle]

@VideosFromMe2010 thanks for reply .suprised the ships still there was told that it had closed down pleased to hear its still up and running

[@christinecraig7473]

So sad to see. I'm sure we are going backwards.

[@Briancollison]

first photos are Tynemouth longsands.

[@Floridiangeordie]

Where in Newcastle you from, and where in Florida too.

[@sixtiesmods]

Gosh - So Busy

[@Floridiangeordie]

Ok changed it m8, thanks

[@philmorrisalisonwatts4649]

This is great, I am interested in what prog/app you used to make this lovely video

[@davidparker7100]

I think I used pro show

[@philmorrisalisonwatts4649]

David Parker thanks a lot and thanks for being so prompt

[@Jeffybonbon]

maybe it should say when the coast was a place to go its now just a mess I would hate to take any visitors of mine to any of it its disgrace the Council should hold its head in shame of they had any It could be great if only there was vision and effort

[@Floridiangeordie]

you should take some pix for me and i can make a new one, i live in the u.s.a now so i cant get any.

[@TheGreatest1974]

Is it just me or was EVERYONE much happier back then? I was born in 1970 so grew up in the 80’s and 90’s all was happy it seems until Tony Blair got in in 1997 and allowed the whole world to come here. Been going downhill ever since.

[@isoamylnitrite]

A good portion of this clip has absolutely NOTHING to do with Whitley Bay! It concentrates chiefly on the outdoor swimming pool at Tynesmouth. Tynemouth is not Whitley Bay!! Moreover some of the shots of the Spanish City amusements are from the 1920s! This video is NOT what its title says it is!

[@murielhanby6516]

Sorry but the music is awful!!!

[@blahollie]

Hooray Hooray Hooray for Whitley Bay

[@murielhanby6516]

Sorry but the music is awful!!!