Where is Whitley Bay Pier?

Whitley Bay Pier is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 55.0444°, -1.4399°.

Piers · North East England

Whitley Bay Pier

Whitley Bay Pier in England North East, United Kingdom.

Whitley Bay - Esplanade junction with The Promenade - geograph.org.uk - 801770 — Alan Heardman — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

Plan your visit

Typical visit: 30 min–1 h
Best time of year: Summer

Whitley Bay Pier is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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From the Wikipedia article

Whitley Bay Pier was an unrealised pleasure pier to be built at Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, on the north-east coast of England. Substantial proposals for such a pier were first made in 1908; next in 1935-39 and lastly in 1966–72. Although orders and local acts of Parliament permitting the development were repeatedly passed, construction of the various schemes never started.

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Background

History

Whitley Bay developed into a holiday resort in the late 18th- and early 19th-centuries; it was provided with a railway station in 1882, from which an Esplanade road lead to a sea-front Promenade. Discussing a 1908 pier proposal, the Evening Chronicle noted that the notion of a pier at Whitley bay had been 'heartily supported' by visitors to the town and had occupied the attention of public men. Although schemes had been promulgated, nothing definite or practical had arisen out of any of the projects.

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