Bath Terrace

A good bracing walk along the promenade and into town.  Looking back northwards from the road above the harbour you can see Bath Terrace on the clifftops and the stumps of Featherbed Rock below.  The building to the left was a Barclays Bank, now a cafe.  Barclays’ roots in the region go back to Sunderland's Jonathan Backhouse and Company (established 1774), one of the principal partners in the 1896 amalgamation which established Barclays as a joint-stock limited company. Other north-eastern banks that joined the Barclays Group soon after 1896 were Woods and Company of Newcastle (founded 1859), Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company (founded c.1806), and J and JW Pease of Darlington (founded 1820).

Around that promontory is Bessie's Hole, a Victorian picnic spot.  The beach is Red Acre and once housed a cafe, open air swimming pools as well as a WW1 battery - they all crumbled into the sea in the 1930's.

Bath Terrace is a listed building built in 1830