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St. Georges Crescent, WHITLEY BAY, NE25 8BJ

Beverley Park Lawn Tennis Club was founded on 20th February 1920 and has four all weather courts and a clubhouse with a kitchen and changing facilities including toilets and a shower area. The club also has disabled access with a disabled toilet on site. The Club were named Tennis Club of the Year at the Northumberland Lawn Tennis Association Awards 2018. For a selection of detailed free to download walking routes in the area visit www.northtynesidewalks.co.uk

This is one of ten surviving Sewer Gas Lamps erected in the Whitley Bay and Monkseaton area between 1900 and 1910 and is Grade II Listed. Although these lamps were once common features of our streets they are now increasingly rare and those combined with sewer vents are rarer still. It illustrates a technology which once transformed everyday existence. For a selection of detailed free to download walking routes in the area visit www.northtynesidewalks.co.uk

This stone building, which is clearly shown on the first Ordnance Survey Six-Inch map of the area published in 1865, was described in the 'Monkseaton Conservation Area Character Appraisal', published by North Tyneside Council in October 2006 as, "an important example of the more diminutive outhouses and cottages which must have characterised Bygate Road, Back Lane and The Fold before suburbanisation". During the 1840s it was said to have been known known as "Ramsay's Fort" because the owner, a certain Robert Ramsay, was supposed to have two imitation cannons on the roof, with the intention of frightening away the French should they ever invade". For a selection of detailed free to download walking routes in the area visit www.northtynesidewalks.co.uk

This is one of ten surviving Sewer Gas Lamps erected in the Whitley Bay and Monkseaton area between 1900 and 1910 and is Grade II Listed. Although these lamps were once common features of our streets they are now increasingly rare and those combined with sewer vents are rarer still. It illustrates a technology which once transformed everyday existence. For a selection of detailed free to download walking routes in the area visit www.northtynesidewalks.co.uk

This is an interesting mid to late Georgian survival which was extended and adapted in the early 20th century, initially for residential use. It is thought that the property, which still retains its original thick stone walls, originated as a single storey cottage for farmworkers. The early 20th century century alterations illustrate its transformation to a higher status private dwelling and then to a Quaker Meeting House in 1910. For a selection of detailed free to download walking routes in the area visit www.northtynesidewalks.co.uk

This fine double fronted brick-built house contains two of the earliest bay windows in the village and still retains much of its original character. For a selection of detailed free to download walking routes in the area visit www.northtynesidewalks.co.uk

A Monkseaton institution seemingly forever, Kelly's is an 'Aladdin's Cave' of DIY essentials including a cut-to-size timber supply service, along with a broad selection of electrical, plumbing, decorating and gardening materials and a whole lot more.

Originally this single-storey stone-built property formed part of the outbuildings (byre, stable and turnip house) of Monkseaton Village Farm dating back to at least the 18th century. The building first came into use as a place of worship in 1899 when it was purchased by local dignitary and benefactor Col. T.W. Elliott, of nearby Monkseaton Cottage https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6765202, who converted the building into an Anglican church which in about 1913 came into the possession of the Methodist Church. For a selection of detailed free to download walking routes in the area visit www.northtynesidewalks.co.uk

This dual aperture post box stands in front of short row of shops one of which was once the village post office. This box dates from the reign of Elizabeth II although dual aperture boxes first appeared in 1899. They were designated Type C boxes and were first introduced in London to help pre-sort mail into 'London and Abroad' and 'Country'. The Royal Mail is a key partner in the Government's Coronavirus testing programme and collect completed testing kits from over 35,000 specially selected post boxes of which this is one (see stickers attached to the box). For a selection of detailed free to download walking routes in the area visit www.northtynesidewalks.co.uk

This property was described in William Weaver Tomlinson's 1893-book, 'Historical Notes on Cullercoats Whitley and Monkseaton', as, "the large brick house above the brewery", which, at that time, belonged to Mrs. Elliott. In an advertisement, which appeared in the Newcastle Courant on the 28th June 1806, the house was described as, "a neat, new-built mansion-house situated in the healthy and pleasant village of Monkseaton". For a selection of detailed free to download walking routes in the area visit www.northtynesidewalks.co.uk