Spanish City Greeting Card

Spanish City Greeting Card. Is an A5 size greeting card, with a daytime photograph of the Spanish City at Whitley Bay. The iconic ‘Dome’, completed in 1910, has undergone a major renovation and is now home to some fantastic restaurants, venues, cafe’s and shops, all right beside the coast and just a short walk from St. Mary’s Lighthouse on the North East coast. This daytime photograph of the building was taken, looking towards the front of the building, through the gardens area located, towards the new shops, cafes and fish and chip restaurant are located.

The building originally opened as The Spanish City and Whitley Bay Pleasure Gardens. It opened as a concert hall, restaurant, roof garden and tearoom. A ballroom was added in 1920 and later a permanent funfair. In 1909 the Whitley Pleasure Gardens Company Ltd. was formed and established a large fairground. The funfair was extremely popular, with fairground rides and amusements, including a “corkscrew” roller coaster. This was later moved to Flamingoland in North Yorkshire back in 1983. The pleasure gardens had fallen into disrepair and were closed in 1999 and the demolition of the fairground was announced. In 2011 the first regeneration plan was announced for the Spanish City building. After a few false starts, plans were given the go ahead in 2013 and the project was completed and the renovated building was opened in 2018. Inside from the top floor of the building, there are fantastic views out to sea and along the coastline including seeing St. Mary’s Lighthouse and down towards Cullercoats.

Spanish City Greeting Card, comes in a clear cello bag, with a white envelope. The size of the greeting card is 210x148mm. The card is left Blank Inside for your own message. Text on the front of  the card reads ‘SPANISH CITY’

Our photograph of St. Mary’s Lighthouse at Sunset is also available as a mounted photographic print. For more details, click here.