Playhouse Whitley Bay Schedule

Did You Know?

Its popularity with holidaymakers was helped by the opening of the North Tyne Loop railway line in 1882, connecting the coastal villages to Newcastle.

In 1907 they moved to the present site in Lovaine Avenue.

This is the source of some consternation to local residents, many of whom believe that the town's nightlife brings with it an unsavoury reputation as well as disruption and anti-social behaviour.

Shops with premises on this site include Iceland, Superdrug and Boots.

Mary's Lighthouse, along the seafront and Spanish City including the dome.In The Catherine Tate Show, Geordie Georgie tries to get her co-worker Martin to sponsor her and her friends to pull a Boeing 747 from Whitley Bay to Tynemouth using only the B roads.In the BBC sitcom, One Foot in the Grave, Victor's oddball friends Ronnie and Mildred are said to live in Whitley Bay.

Whitley is also referred to in the charters of King Henry II, King Richard I and King John, confirming to the priors their possessions and liberties.Whitley was connected with the Crusades when Pope Nicholas IV granted to Edward I the first-fruits and tenths of all ecclesiastical possessions for six years to defray the expenses of an expedition to the Holy Land.