{"id":6859,"date":"2013-11-29T19:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T19:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=6859"},"modified":"2013-11-29T19:00:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T19:00:52","slug":"spanish-city-and-dome-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6859","title":{"rendered":"Spanish City and Dome development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Whitley Bay&#8217;s Grade II listed Spanish City and Dome is to be restored and reopened to the public following the announcement of a \u00a33.7m Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant to North Tyneside Council.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When it was built in 1910, its Dome was the largest freestanding dome in the UK after St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral. A quintessential Edwardian seaside resort, at its height Spanish City and Whitley Bay Pleasure Gardens attracted tens of thousands of visitors from across the UK. Following a period of decline during the 80s and 90s, the building closed to the public in 2000.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Read the Heritage Lottery Fund news release at<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlf.org.uk\/news\/Pages\/WhitleyBaySpanishCity.aspx#.UphZ3RwyCPt\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Search Planning Portal<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2013\/november13\/281113\/281113_6\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whitley Bay&#8217;s Grade II listed Spanish City and Dome is to be restored and reopened to the public following the announcement of a \u00a33.7m Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant to North Tyneside Council. When it was built in 1910, its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6859\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6860,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859\/revisions\/6860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}