The Spanish City

The Spanish City - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Spanish City is a dining and leisure centre in Whitley Bay, a seaside town in North Tyneside, Tyne & Wear, England. Erected as a smaller version of Blackpool's Pleasure Beach, it opened in 1910 as a concert hall, restaurant, roof garden and tearoom. A ballroom was added in 1920 and later a permanent funfair.Rennison, Robert William (1996). Civil Engineering Heritage: Northern England. London: Thomas Telford, p. 41, citing Cackett, J. T. Dick, B. (1911). "Spanish City, Whitley Bay". Ferro Concrete: A Monthly Review, 2, pp. 168–175. Read more on Wikipedia

type: building
date from: 1910
official website: https://spanishcity.co.uk/

Source: en.wikipedia.org