Paddy Freeman's Park, model power boat club

HER Number

17069

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Paddy Freeman's Park, model power boat club

Place

Heaton

Class

Recreational

Site Type: Broad

Club

Site Type: Specific

Yacht Club

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

Boats had been sailed on the lake as early as the 1880s. Heaton & District Model Power Boat Club was formally inaugurated in 1910. Their scale models were mostly naval craft. The boathouse was built in 1923. Straight running competitions between a course marked by flags are still held. The catcher stands in the water and collects the boat before it rams the pond wall.

Easting

426030

Northing

567073

Grid Reference

NZ426030567073

Sources

Lynn Pearson, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - Charting the heritage of people at play, p 162