South east corner of the Town Moor, 125 acres. The Exhibition Park was the site of the Royal Jubilee Mining, Engineering and Industrial Exhibition of 1887. All that survives of the 1887 layout is the bandstand (HER 5065). The North East Coast Exhibition of Industry, Science and Art, opened on May 14th 1929. The aim was to promote trade and boost confidence at a time of economic hardship. The 1929 exhibition left us with the former Palace of Arts (HER 5064), and a promenade from Claremont Road. The 1929 exhibition featured palaces of Engineering (occupied by big firms and shipbuilders), Industries (demonstrating new ideas such as sewing machines and vacuum cleaners) and Arts, 12 Egyptian towers and an African village (with imported Africans who were required to live out their daily lives there). The stadium with a 2,000 seat stand hosted a Highland Games and sheepdog trials. Traces of its turf banking remained visible until the 1990s. The exhibition attracted 4,373,138 visitors. The architects for the art deco, Egyptian-style and futuristic buildings were Sunderland's W and TR Milburn, specialists in cinema and theatre design. After the exhibition closed, there were proposals to retain the site as film studios. The palaces were built of concrete and compressed asbestos on steel girder frames. The Palace of Arts (which survives as the Military Vehicles Museum but was once the Newcastle Museum of Science and Engineering, a direct successor to the exhibition) was approached by an elegant bridge (demolished in 1961) over a widened and deepened lake. There was a festival hall to seat 20,000 people, a fountain lit by coloured lights, an amusement park including a Himalayan railway reaching 80ft in height, a jungle, a 23ft high female figure representing industry and the region's first official car park. There were also a range of pavilions - the garden club with roof veranda, the women's and artisans section, restaurants, horticultural exhibitions, gardens, tennis courts and bowling greens (which still survive). Smith's Crisps were launched at the event as was Newcastle Exhibition Ale. The staging of the 1929 exhibition was in response to the gathering Depression. Some firms claimed they won orders through the exhibition, but it also had a great social impact and signified the North East's determination not to stand passively by in the face of a worsening economic climate. The lake was used by a model yacht club until 2007. Their 1894 clubhouse still stands.

Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map.

Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map.

Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map.

Life Brigade Apparatus House for Cullercoats Life Brigade, now a private dwelling. Dated 1867 above door. Painted snecked stone with ashlar dressings and quoins; graduated slate roof and brick chimney. One storey. Double boarded door in elliptical- headed keyed arch and alternate-block jambs. Inscribed stone scroll above - LIFE BRIGADE HOUSE/1867. Small chamfered pointed-arched niche above. Bargeboards with finials.

The original Dove Marine Laboratory building was constructed by the Northumberland Sea Fisheries Committee and opened on 21 October 1897. The laboratory exterior was merely a wooden hut next to the Salt Water Baths, which had been erected around 1807 by a Richard Armstrong. The Salt Water Baths were positioned in an area where no fresh water could mix with the sea water and weaken its strength, and were refilled every tide to avoid infection. The baths had four bathrooms and dressing rooms. The Marine Laboratory was built to undertake scientific studies into the Northumberland coast fishery to help increase its prosperity. In 1904 a fire destroyed the buildings. In September 1908 a new Marine Laboratory opened, thanks to local benefactor Mr W.H. Huddleston, who named the building after his ancestor Eleanor Dove. The Dove Marine Laboratory still carries out coastal research {1}. In the public aquarium there was a tank or pond, and eleven tanks of various sizes along three of the walls. Outside the building large storage tanks for sea-water were built. The tanks and the foundations of the building were constructed in ferro-concrete {2}. Architect was J.J. Lish of Newcastle.

Life Brigade Watch House, Victoria Crescent, Cullercoats. This was designed by Frank West Rich, who designed Turnbull's Warehouse and Bolbec Hall (amongst other buildings). The Cullercoats Life Brigade, the second to be formed (after Tynemouth), was formed after 1864 and the Watch House constructed between 1877 and 1879. Built of roughly-squared sandstone with rock-faced quoins and dressings, a wooden verandah and tiled roof. Shingled belfry with balustrade. One storey. Boarded door under catslide roof. One stone-mullioned square-headed window under gable. Casements with glazing bars in back verandah. Clock turret has tall octagonal roof.

The first pier at Cullercoats was wooden and was built in 1677 by the lease holders of Whitley Colliery and Lady Elizabeth Percy, sole hieress of the eleventh Earl of Northumberland, to export coal. It took five years to build and cost £3,013 13s 6d. Cullercoats Port was put under the charge of the Custom House Officer at Blyth. In 1710 the wooden pier was severely damaged in a storm. It was deemed unsafe, the new pier was designed by John Dobson and built in stone with voluntary labour by fishermen and pilots between 1847-48. The end part was rebuilt in 1880. There are original drawings of the piers in Alnwick Castle. Pier now covered by sea at high tide. A photographic recording was undertaken by Scott Wilson in 2010 during improvement works. The report concluded that the North Pier had greater architectural merit than the South. Both piters form an intrinsic part of the historical development of Cullercoats and represent important historical heriage assets within the area.

Cast iron wheel found by Mr. T Singleton in 2000 and donated to the Stephenson Railway Museum. 34.5 inches in diameter. 12 inches deep including broken stud of axle. Hub 9 inches. The axle is fitted to the wheel hub with wood wedges. The wheel has 12 spokes. The wheel was found at the Tyne Tunnel Trading Estate in a section through a soil bund to the east of Hartley Main Wagonway {1}.

Well-covered remains of a stone archway which was once the entrance to a drift mine. Coal from the mine was taken by tub wagonway to an engine house. The coal was initially intended to simply fuel the nearby pumping station, but there was excess coal. This was dropped down the shaft of the pumping station mine and taken to Beamish Colliery where it could be transported away. When drfit mining ceased, an explosive was detonated a few metres inside the tunnel to block it. The coal drift was in operation from 1895 to 1920 {1}.