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Spanish City
The Spanish City was a permanent funfair in Whitley Bay, a seaside town in North Tyneside, Tyne & Wear, England. Erected as a smaller version of Blackpool's Pleasure Beach, it opened in 1910 as a concert hall, restaurant, roof garden and tearoom. A ballroom was added in 1920, and later the funfair.〔Robert William Rennison, ''Civil Engineering Heritage: Northern England'', Thomas Telford, 1996, p. (41 ), citing J. T. Cackett and B. Dick, "Spanish City, Whitley Bay," ''Ferro Concrete: A Monthly Review'', 1911, 2, pp. 168–175.〕
Located near the seafront, the Spanish City has a 180 ft-long (54.8 m) Renaissance-style frontage and became known for its distinctive dome, now a Grade II listed building.〔Michael Stratton, "New Materials for a New Age: Steel and concrete construction in the north of England, 1860–1939," ''Industrial Archaeology Review'', 21, 1999 (pp. 5–24), p. 20ff.
For Grade II listed, Jeanette Hedley, ("Duncan's amusements demolished" ), North Tyneside Council, 12 May 2006.〕 There are towers on either side of the entrance, each of which carries a half-life-size female bacchanalian figure in lead, one holding cymbals, the other a tambourine. The building's architects were Robert Burns Dick, Charles T. Marshall and James Cackett.〔Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach, Catherine Morris, ''Public sculpture of North-East England'', Liverpool University Press, 2000, pp. 218, 319.〕
The band Dire Straits immortalized the Spanish City in their 1980 hit single, "Tunnel of Love," which from then on was played every morning when the park opened.〔 By the late 1990s the building had fallen into disrepair, and in the early 2000s it was closed to the public.〔("Exhibition marks Whitley Bay's Spanish City centenary" ), BBC News, 9 September 2010.〕 A regeneration project was announced in 2011.〔
==Architecture==
The Spanish City faces the sea, with a 180 ft-long front and a depth of 275 ft. The dome rises to 75 ft above the foundation and has a diameter of 50 ft, supported on 46-ft-high concrete columns. It is made of a reinforced-concrete shell, five inches thick, which is supported by 12 (10 in x 18 in) internal ribs.〔
The architects were Robert Burns Dick, Charles T. Marshall, and James Cackett)〔 of Cackett and Burns Dick.〔 J. Coulson was a design consultant and L. G. Mouchel were structural consultants. Davidson and Miller were the contractors.〔
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