On occasion, this is explicitly recognised: the one-off strip Whitley Baywatch, a spoof of the popular American TV show Baywatch, is based in the North East coastal resort of Whitley Bay.

Finally in May 1853, Aberdeen was forced to make a show of force, by sending a fleet under Admiral Armar Lowry Corry stationed in the Bay of Biscay to the island of Malta to join up with a squadron under Admiral Sir James Whitley Deans Dundas.

Baz, Bob and Joe see out their holiday on the beach with girls they have pulled whilst a heavily-bandaged Sid tries and fails to chat up a woman on a bench in a rain-soaked Whitley Bay.

The leader of the gang was Dave Richmond, a local drug dealer from Whitley Bay, his trademark act of violence was the " Whitley Smile.

Within its bounds are the towns of Wallsend, North Shields and Whitley Bay, which form a continuously built-up area contiguous with Newcastle.

The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the county borough of Tynemouth, with the borough of Wallsend, part of the borough of Whitley Bay, the urban district of Longbenton and part of the urban district of Seaton Valley, all of which were in Northumberland.

* Whitley Bay

Metro consists of two lines, the Green Line, which runs between Newcastle Airport and South Hylton via Newcastle upon Tyne city centre, Gateshead and Sunderland and the Yellow Line, which runs between St James and South Shields via North Shields, Tynemouth, Whitley Bay, then looping back on itself and going south via the city centre, Gateshead and Jarrow.

Whitley Bay is a town in North Tyneside, in Tyne and Wear, England.

St. Mary's Lighthouse, Whitley Bay

The Whitley Bay Parish Church is St. Paul's Church.

The council asked residents for suggestions for a new name, and the most popular choice was Whitley Bay.

It has since been known as Whitley Bay, but many residents still refer to the town as ' Whitley '.

On 1 January 1944 the Whitley and Monkseaton Urban District became the Whitley Bay Urban District and on 5 March 1954 it was granted its Royal Charter of Incorporation as the Borough of Whitley Bay.

Councillors of the Whitley Bay ward of North Tyneside Council are Pamela Brooks, Sandra Graham and John O ' Shea, all of the Labour Party.

Whitley Bay was famous for its permanent seaside fairground, the Spanish City.

The Spanish City is the subject of the Dire Straits song Tunnel of Love, along with Whitley Bay and the nearby town Cullercoats.

A new skatepark opened in the Panama Dip in 2008, following the creation of a new children's play park on Whitley Park the previous year.

Whitley Bay Rockcliff RFC play at the Lovaine Avenue ground in Hillheads.

After a few seasons, the club moved its base to Churchill Playing Fields in Whitley Bay and stayed there until the mid-1980s until astro-turf took over and then the club was forced to move with the times and left the coast to play at Wallsend Sports Centre.

The quarter-final in 1965 saw Whitley Bay play Hendon, which set a club ground record, when 7, 301 supporters made their way into the stadium, only to be disappointed by the final outcome which saw Hendon winning the match 3 – 1.

Due to low crowds and problems getting regular ice time at the Arena, in November 2010 the Vipers were forced to move in with the ' old enemy ' and play for part of their final season out of the Hillheads rink in Whitley Bay.

Originally a one-off game, former Durham Wasps players from the 80s and 90s reformed to play former local rivals Whitley Warriors on 4 May 2008 at Whitley Bay Ice Rink, commemorating the 60th anniversary of the formation of the club, and in support of the ongoing campaign to bring back an ice rink.

Whitley was born in Houston, Texas and learned to play guitar when he was fifteen.

The couple started a school of applied art, the Leeds Technical School of Art, in 1871, and became well renowned for their work in fixing colour photography on to metal and pottery, leading to them being commissioned for portraits of Queen Victoria and the long-serving Prime Minister William Gladstone produced in this way, that were included alongside other mementos of the time in a time capsule – manufactured by Whitley Partners of Hunslet – which was placed in the foundations of Cleopatra's Needle on the embankment of the River Thames.

Whitley is also referred to in the charters of King Henry II, King Richard I and King John, confirming to the priors their possessions and liberties.

Also, artists like Kathy Mattea and Keith Whitley, both of whom had been performing for a few years prior, had their first major hits during 1986 ; Mattea was more folk-styled, while Whitley was pure honky-tonk.

Also, artists like Kathy Mattea and Keith Whitley, both of whom had been performing for a few years prior, had their first major hits during 1986 ; Mattea was more folk-styled, while Whitley was pure honky-tonk.

In 2001, the City of Williamsburg, Kentucky named their new water park and miniature golf facility the Hal Rogers Family Entertainment Center as a " thank-you for all of the federal money he has brought back to Whitley County, the City of Williamsburg, and the other 40 counties he represents.

The six men who had not landed in the drop zone were Royal Engineer sappers who were supposed to rig the aqueduct for demolition, and their Whitley had been carrying most of the explosives to be used in the operation.

She identifies his captors as the Streib ( a possible allusion to author / abductee Whitley Strieber ), a reclusive but advanced alien race who kidnap members of other races and experiment with them to determine their strengths and weaknesses.

The Espace's design was originally conceived in the 1970s by the British designer, Fergus Pollock, ( at around the same time as Giorgetto Giugiaro's 1978 Lancia Megagamma concept MPV ), who was working for Chrysler UK ( formerly the Rootes Group ), at their design centre at Whitley, ( now the Jaguar design centre ) in Coventry.

During the 1989 – 90 season, Whitley Bay recorded their best ever F. A.

It wasn't until five years later that Whitley Bay's supporters witnessed their club being relegated again, this time to the Northern Football League in 1999 – 2000.

* On the 11 May 2002, Whitley Bay won the FA Vase for the first time in their history, beating Tiptree United 1 – 0 in extra-time in the final at Villa Park.

The Whitley design studio was dissolved, and some of the designers crossed over to British Leyland, where they joined their former boss Roy Axe.

Lott and Whitley argue that if Donohue and Levitt are right that 80 percent of the drop in murder rates during the 1990s is due solely to the legalization of abortion, their results should be seen in these graphs without anything being controlled for, and that in fact the opposite is true.

In the 1950s, Icy, inspired by the Wasps and the Riverside, started another ice rink at Whitley Bay, their hockey team called the Bees to start with, then the Braves, and then the Warriors, the name which still survives.

His parents " grew up on race radio in the South " and their musical tastes -- including Muddy Waters, Howlin ' Wolf, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix -- influenced Whitley.

Lott and Whitley argue that if Donohue and Levitt are right that 80 percent of the drop in murder rates during the 1990s is due solely to the legalization of abortion, their results should be seen in these graphs without anything being controlled for, and that in fact the opposite is true.

The two officers and their newly-formed unit were provided with four obsolescent Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bombers and a small number of Tiger Moth and Avro 504 biplanes for towing purposes.