Heaton, Paddy Freeman's Park, model power boat club

HER Number:
17069

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Heaton, Paddy Freeman's Park, model power boat club

Place:
Heaton

Map Sheet:

Class:
Recreational

Site Type: Broad:
Club

Site Type: Specific:
Yacht Club

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

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:
26030

Northing:
67073

Grid Reference:
NZ2603067073

Lats/Lons:

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