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Rex Hotel (closed 2016)
The 70 bedroom Rex Hotel, on the corner of Promenade and South Parade in Whitley Bay, 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 promonade to become 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 declined over many years.
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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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Simon Cotterill
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The Rex Hotel, Whitley Bay pictured during its glory days in the 1930s beautifully illuminated
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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, …
Added by
Simon Cotterill
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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
![](https://farm66.staticflickr.com/65535/50298628211_edb0e6c05d_z.jpg)
from Flickr (flickr)
The Rex Hotel, Whitley Bay pictured during its glory days in the 1930s beautifully illuminated
Pinned by Peter Smith