Whitley Bay, Tyne & Wear - Promenade - postcard 1952

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  The Promenade, Whitley Bay, Tyne & Wear [formerly Northumberland] - probably not real photo but interesting crowned beach and street scene
• Publisher:  none given
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  George VI 2d brown
• Postmark(s):  Whitley Bay 23 Sep 1952 wavy line
• Sent to:  Miss Jeanette Howison, The Croft, Elamickle, by Biggar, Lanarkshire
• Notes / condition:  slight wear due to normal postal use but no major faults

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Whitley Bay is a town and seaside resort, with a seafront with walks, a beach, landmarks, and great architecture, such as St Mary's Lighthouse, and a Spanish City Dome (Spanish Architecture).

Whitley Bay is located in North Tyneside, in Tyne and Wear, England. It is located on the north east coast North Sea, and has a stretch of golden sandy beach. The beach forms a bay stretching from St. Mary's Island in the north to Cullercoats in the south.

Whitley Bay town centre has shops, the Jam Jar Cinema, the Playhouse Theatre and an ice rink with bowling. There is a tourist information office in the new library; there are restaurants on the sea front and in the town centre itself.

The area is rich in history. Whitley was first mentioned about the year 1100 when King Henry I conferred it with other possessions on the Priory of Tynemouth being referred to in ancient documents and maps before that date as Witelei, Wyteley, Hwyteleg, Witelithe, Wheteley, Wytheleye, Whitlaw, Whitlathe and Whitlag. Whitley is also referred to in the charters of King Henry II, King Richard I and King John, confirming to the priors their possessions and liberties.

Whitley was connected with the Crusades when Pope Nicholas IV granted to Edward I the first-fruits and tenths of all ecclesiastical possessions for six years to defray the expenses of an expedition to the Holy Land. A valuation was made of the spiritual and temporal goods of the Priory on 26 March 1292, when the yearly rents from Whitley were returned as 20 shillings, and the tithes as 9 marks.

About the beginning of the 14th century, the manor of Whitley was held from the Prior of Tynemouth by a singular feudal service called the Conveyes which seems to have originated from John de Whitley. Richard de Emeldon, eighteen times Mayor of Newcastle and seven times its representative in Parliament, was the Lord of the Manor of Whitley in 1333.

On 9 April 1345, Edward III granted Gilbert de Whitley a licence to crenellate his manor house at Whitley. To crenellate a house was to place battlements on it. Before this could be done, the sanction of the Crown was often sought. Although battlements were often largely symbolic, in this instance it is probably an indication of the degree of insecurity felt even this far south during the Edwardian wars with Scotland. The licence and crenellations were an indication of status. Only 2% of the small tower houses of the sort Gilbert built had licences. The 'sanction' of the crown was a sought-after bonus, but not a requirement.^[1]

After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Whitley was held under the Crown for a time. By a grant of Edward VI dated 8 December 1551, it came into the hands of Dudley, Earl of Warwick who was created Duke of Northumberland. It remained in the Percy family until 1632 after which time the area appeared to be let at a yearly rental to various holders until it came into the possession of the Duke of Somerset on his marriage in 1682 with Elizabeth, the heiress of Joscelyn, the 11th Earl of Northumberland. Whitley subsequently passed by inheritance to her granddaughter Elizabeth Seymour who had married Sir Hugh Smithson, a Yorkshire baronet, afterwards created Duke of Northumberland. Whitley has since been retained by descendants and the present Duke of Northumberland is the Lord of the Manor and principal landowner.

Monkseaton, which forms the greater part of the north west of the district, is also very old and its industries were common with those of Whitley being chiefly coalmining and limestone quarrying.

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