Exhibition Park — Attraction in Newcastle upon Tyne

This place is just great for kids, and adults for that matter. Whether the kids are playing in one of the two parks catering for all age groups or the tennis & basketball courts for older kids and adults alike, and then there's the skate / scooter park area at the entrance too - whilst accompanying adults can sit watch over their younger ones on one of the many seats or the well kept grass throughout the park. There are other area's of interest throughout the park too including balance beams, a big net area, the bandstand, the small duck pond & nature reserve area, many paths through the park to outlying areas & of course not to forget the Café in the Park with their wonderful ice cream to complete that visit to the park on a hot day having labouriously looked after the kids whilst they play, and I suppose they can have some too! The café does other food of course & a selection of cakes too, open for ordering until approx 5pm weekdays & 6pm weekends throughout the summer, though do check the door for last order & kitchen closing times if you are planning on eating later. To sum up Exhibition park, this really is a good place with ample parking nearby and I have given 4 stars simply because it could be an excellent place and earn 5 with a couple simple safety additions, cycle lanes for example for the many bikes, some of them that have less than courteous riders to be conscientious of the children around & a net or rail perhaps to prevent kids who understandably want to climb the dirty walls of the tunnel under the...

A public space much loved by Tynesiders. I quote from Pevsner "Buildings of England Northumberland" ....."A bite taken out of the Town Moor to provide a site for the Royal Jubilee Exhibition of 1887.All that survives is the BANDSTAND at the east side in the shadow of the urban motorway"........."The North East Coast Exhibition of 1929, for which the layout and most of the buildings were designed by W. & T.R. Milburn of Sunderland, left rather more behind: not only the well-known, 'Exhibition Ale' but also a promenade from the Claremont Road entrance to the lake , and, on the far side of the lake, one of the of the buildings erected to display exhibits. Most of these were meant to be temporary, but this, the Palace of Arts, was steel-framed and clad in artificial stone for permanence and the security of the valuable works of art displayed." It has, in the past, variously been the Newcastle Museum of Science and Engineering, I remember Charles Parson's "Turbinia" being housed here, and The Military Vehicle Museum. When I visited on the 27th November '20, a sign over the pillared portico indicated "Wylam Brewery", definitely a most noble use for this building, so symbolic of...

Great early Summer afternoon in Exhibition Park. The park was buzzing today with a good mix of families and young people enjoying the open space and a short period of relative calm just outside the busy Newcastle city centre. Also nice to see the tennis and basketball courts being used in the way they were designed. The skate park was swarming with scooters meaning the skate boards were out on the paths mixing with pedestrians and dog walkers. Not a real problem though as they keep themselves away from the crowds and the ones that ventured near me as I was walking about gave me a wide berth or was it me who steered wide? Anyways plenty of space so it wasn't a problem. In summary a nice park to escape to for some chill time away from the...