Whitley Lodge Estate

I have previously walked along the Whitley Bay promenade the better to see Beacon House.

Where a two bed flat will set you back £179,000.

This time around I came to views the surrounding housing on Whitley Lodge Estate.

A mix of 1960s flat-roofed brick low rise, maisonettes and terraces with mathematical tiles, linked by concrete roads. Each home with its distinctive modifications, which express a longing for the comfort of a past which reaches back further than the 1960s.

We live in a land of Victorian carriage lamps, wishing wells and faux Georgian doors and door knockers.

Along with replacement windows, multiple cars and the over-cladding of cladding.

Whitley Lodge consists of a housing estate, the Whitley Lodge Shopping Centre – classified as a District Centre in planning terms and Whitley Lodge First School. The school is home to the Whitley Lodge Baptist Church which was established in 2007.

At the centre of Whitley Lodge is its shopping centre, which includes a snooker club, post office, estate agency, newsagent, soft play area, cafe, barber shop, fitness centre, Italian restaurant Davanti, the Kittiwake pub, Contour Blinds – window blind, shutter, awning and curtain specialists and a Tesco Express. The centre is also home to various takeaway establishments, including Tandoori Take Away, New Claremont Chinese takeaway, Dimitri Takeaway, and a Fish and Chip Shop.

I am oh so fond of 60s seaside estates, having visited Penrhyn Bay again and again

Let’s take a look around.