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Whitley Bay
Whitley Bay is a seaside town on
the north east coast of England.
Historically in Northumberland, it
is administered as part of the
borough of North Tyneside in Tyne
and Wear.
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Whitley Bay Spanish City Dome
Source image: By Twistaride09 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,
The Spanish City is a dining-and-leisure centre in Whitley Bay, a seaside town in North
Tyneside, Tyne & Wear, England. Erected as a smaller version of Blackpool's Pleasure
Beach, it opened in 1910 as a concert hall, restaurant, roof garden and tearoom. A
ballroom was added in 1920 and later a permanent funfair.
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The band Dire Straits immortalized the Spanish City in their 1980 hit single, "Tunnel of
Love", which from then on was played every morning when it opened. By the late
1990s the building had fallen into disrepair, and in the early 2000s it was closed to the
public. A regeneration project was announced in 2011. The building re-opened as a
dining-and-leisure centre at the end of July 2018.
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