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Bay View House (former Rex Hotel)
Bay View House is located on the corner of Promenade and South Parade in Whitley Bay. This is the former 70 bedroom Rex Hotel, which closed in 2016. It was originally built in 1906 as a small temperance hotel by the Waverley Hotel Company. The Waverley was a success, and expanded along the promenade to grow into a 150 bedroom hotel. In 1937 the hotel obtained a license to sell alcohol and its name was changed to the Rex Hotel. It once hosted a popular folk club, with Gerry Rafferty, Billy Connolly, Ralph McTell and Lindisfarne performing there. In more recent times it housed the 'Deep' nightclub. The hotel closed in February 2016 after business had declined over many years. Proposals by the Malhotra Group to redevelop the building as a care home were approved in 2017, but stalled during the COVID pandemic. The building is now being converted into an 83 bedroom care home for the Prestwick Care Group, due to open in 2025. The building is on the List of Buildings, Parks and Gardens of Special Local Architectural or Historic Interest ('Local List') for North Tyneside.
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Tyne and Wear HER(9307): Whitley Bay, Promenade, Rex Hotel (Waverley Hotel)
- "Seventy-bedroom hotel on The Promenade. Once home to a popular folk club. A host of well known musicians played here in the early days of their careers, including Gerry Rafferty, …
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Whitley Bay's former Rex Hotel set for new lease of life as care home under £10m plan
- Chronicle Live, 8 FEB 2017. "The proposals for the former seafront hotel have been put together by Newcastle-based Malhotra Group....Under the project, the Victorian-style hotel - which closed last year …
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The Rex Hotel, Whitley Bay pictured during its glory days in the 1930s beautifully illuminated
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Waverley Hotel (later Rex Hotel), Whitley Bay. Pre-1937
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from http://twsitelines.info/SMR/9…
Tyne and Wear HER(9307): Whitley Bay, Promenade, Rex Hotel (Waverley Hotel)
- "Seventy-bedroom hotel on The Promenade. Once home to a popular folk club. A host of well known musicians played here in the early days of their careers, including Gerry Rafferty, …
Added by
Simon Cotterill
from https://www.chroniclelive.co.…
Whitley Bay's former Rex Hotel set for new lease of life as care home under £10m plan
- Chronicle Live, 8 FEB 2017. "The proposals for the former seafront hotel have been put together by Newcastle-based Malhotra Group....Under the project, the Victorian-style hotel - which closed last year …
Added by
Simon Cotterill
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The Rex Hotel, Whitley Bay pictured during its glory days in the 1930s beautifully illuminated
Pinned by Peter Smith
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Waverley Hotel (later Rex Hotel), Whitley Bay. Pre-1937
Pinned by Simon Cotterill
