Tynemouth Seafront

Tynemouth has two beaches, Longsands boasts excellent long stretches of golden sands and the more secluded King Edwards Bay, that are popular all year round and are regular seaside award winners.

Tynemouth Longsands

King Edwards Bay

A panoramic photo of the old outdoor swimming pool.


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And a video of Tynemouth outdoor swimming pool built in 1925. Filmed in the 1960's and in the 90's it was converted to a disaster rockpool. Uploaded by Frank Gillings who runs the excellent Tynemouth Pictures website.

And a video of The Miss Tyne Tees TV beauty competition at the Tynemouth beach swimming pool in July 1971. One of the judges, footballer Malcolm Macdonald. Once again uploaded to YouTube by Frank Gillings. A slideshow of the images from this video can be seen here Miss Tyne Tees TV July 1971.

And finally a scene from the excellent TV series The Likely Lads filmed in Tynemouth and Whitley Bay which was uploaded by another excellent local website Whitley Bay Online.

See also:
Tynemouth Metro station
Tynemouth Priory
Tynemouth