Cullercoats Drive By

Travelling north into Cullercoats a prominent landmark on the coast is St. George's Church, consecrated on 16 December 1884. This is the Anglican parish church of the ecclesiastical parish of St George.

The road turns directly into Beverley Terrace. The street is not listed in Campbell's Directory of 1871-72, but a newspaper piece in the Shields Daily News dated 15 November 1878, reports a gentleman leaving Cullercoats and selling the contents of No. 17. Beverley Terrace was, at its' northern end, built on the site of an old ballast hill.

Moving on to Beacon House with navigation beacons to the front and rear of the building, we cross Marden Avenue, to find, in the centre of the block, the house Monks Haven, one time home of James Knott, shipbroker, ship owner and Borough Councillor.

John Street turns away to the left but we proceed into the older part of Cullercoats along Victoria Crescent.

The Bay Hotel was opened in 1870 as the Huddleston Arms on the site of an older building, the Ship Inn. It had been renamed Bay Hotel by 1893.

New buildings now take the place of the Ship Hotel and Newcastle Arms in Front Street. Generations of fisher folk once lived here in distinctive cottages built early in the 1800s but these have now been demolished.

The Fisherman's Mission opened on the 10 October 1931. This Mission was built in its' entirety by Cullercoats people.

Promontory Terrace, Whitley Bay, appears as one side only on the 1913 Ordnance Survey.

Windsor Crescent in Whitley Bay is a good point at which to turn around in order to retrace our steps, but this time, along the other side of the road.

 

Before our return journey, you may like to look across the Bay in our short movie.

The Return Journey

Moving back towards Front Street along Promontory Terrace, the street that marks the northern boundary of Cullercoats along this route, the road turns into the oldest part of Cullercoats but, as Cullercoats has undergone extensive development, the old village, has been largely demolished.

The Queen's Head public house was extensively rebuilt in 1932, but a public house of this name can be traced back on this site to 1828.

Cliff House is one of the oldest surviving buildings in Cullercoats. Work began in July 1768.

The Cullercoats Volunteer Life Brigade opened their watch house in October 1879

The Dove Marine Laboratory, opened on 29 September 1908 stands in Cullercoats Bay. The Laboratory is still active in the world of marine biology.

On Beverley Terrace, beside one of the pilot beacons, stands a memorial fountain to Lieutenant Brian J. Huthwaite Adamson who was lost without trace with his ship H.M.S. Wasp while on manoeuvres in the Indian Ocean in 1887.

The boat field is where the fishermen of Cullercoats stood their boats in extreme weather. The flat area of grass on the left is where the fishing boats, that were normally kept in the harbour, were brought when the weather closed in. The boats were hauled onto the boat field, overturned and left to weather the storm.

The long stretch of Beverley Terrace leads us out of Cullercoats. The road leading down on the left to the Long Sands at Tynemouth, and the north pier at the mouth of the river Tyne in the background, means that we have now left Cullercoats behind us.

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