Tynemouth

Population 1911 : 58,822.
Early Closing: Wednesday.
Miles from London: 287
Fares from King's Cross and St. Pancras via Newcastle : 1st, 39/3: 3rd, 23/4. weekend tickets (Friday to Tuesday) : 1st, 39/3; 3rd, 23/6. Duration of passage from London by boat : 23 hours.

"And now the vessel skirts the strand
Of mountainous Northumberland;
Towns towers and halls successive rise
And catch the nuns' delighted eyes.
Monkwearmouth soon behind them lay
And Tynemouth's Priory and bay."

Tynemouth, a municipal and Parliamentary borough, and a county borough under the Local Government Act, 1888, stand on the north side of the mouth of the Tyne, about midway on the loop-line of the Newcastle and Tynemouth electric branch of the North-Eastern Railway. It is about nine miles from Newcastle and Sunderland respectively, and 16 miles from Morpeth.

"Oh, the cliffs of old Tynemouth, they're wild and they're sweet,
And dear are the waters that roll at their feet;
And the old ruin'd Abbey, it ne'er shall depart;
'Tis the star of my fancy, the home of my heart.
Oh, give me the cliffs and wild rolling sea,
The cliffs of old Tynemouth for ever for me."