Whitley Bay is a town in North Tyneside, in Tyne and Wear, England. It is on the North Sea coast and has a fine stretch of golden sandy beach forming a bay stretching from St. Mary’s Island in the north to Cullercoats in the south. The town, which has a population of 36,544, became a holiday destination for the people of North East England and Scotland and remained popular in this regard until the 1980s. The town is now widely seen as a dormitory town for Newcastle upon Tyne.
Bringing a car to England from Norway on ferries in the late 70s, early 80s meant you usually landed either in Harwich or in Portsmouth near Newcastle so a nice place to look for a B & B for the last night before leaving if Portsmouth was the alternative was just Whitley Bay.
There was back then a very nice place in Whitley Bay called Alice’s Restaurant. It might still be there for all I know, I haven’t been in that neck of the would since then. Morten, my traveling companion back then and I had a great last evening in England on just Alice’s Restaurant then. Brings back good memories, really good memories – Ted
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