Free on The Links on Sunday 1 November: rides from 6pm, fireworks at 7pm. Segedunum follows on Thursday 5 November, Tynemouth Cricket Club on Saturday 7th.
The North Tyneside fireworks display is on The Links at Whitley Bay on Sunday 1 November 2026, and it is free. There are no tickets. North Tyneside Council’s own listing for the event gives the timings: fairground rides and refreshments from 6pm, fireworks at 7pm, and the display lasts about 15 minutes.
Updated 4 October: Tynemouth Cricket Club has confirmed its display for Saturday 7 November, gates 5pm, fireworks from 7pm, early bird tickets on sale.
Updated 3 October: the council has made its 2026 road closure order for Segedunum’s display, which confirms it for Thursday 5 November, and the 2026 Remembrance order now adds The Links to the parade closures a week after the fireworks.
Note the date. 1 November is a Sunday, four days before bonfire night itself on Thursday 5 November. If you are working back from the fifth you will miss it.
The details, from the council’s listing
North Tyneside Council runs the display and publishes it on its Visit North Tyneside site. What that page confirms:
- Where: The Links, Whitley Bay, NE26 1TQ
- When: Sunday 1 November 2026, listed as 6pm to 7.30pm
- Display: starts 7pm, roughly 15 minutes
- Cost: free, £0.00, no ticket
- From 6pm: fairground rides and refreshments
- If the weather is bad: the council says the event “will take place the following night”, which would be Monday 2 November
The display is fired over the open ground of The Links looking out at the North Sea, which is why it draws a crowd from well beyond Whitley Bay.
Two published sources, two different dates
Go North East, the bus operator, still has a page for the display that carries the same description word for word but dates it “5th November”. That is a leftover from a previous year. The council’s own listing, which is the organiser, says 1 November. Trust the council’s date.
Parking: the charges stop before the fireworks start
This is the useful part. Most of the charged council car parks on The Links have a restriction period of 9am to 6pm, so by the time the display starts at 7pm they are free to use. Arrive before 6pm and you pay £1.20 an hour.
There is one exception, and it is easy to miss. The Mini Golf Car Park record carries the same tariff but its restriction period reads simply “all days”, with no hours attached, so do not assume the evening is free there.
The car parks on The Links itself, all confirmed on the council’s own find-parking pages:
| Car park | Postcode | Spaces | Charge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brierdene | NE26 4NF | 245, plus 10 disabled, 9 coach | Free at all times |
| Waves | NE26 1TQ | 125, plus 7 disabled, 2 coach | Free at all times |
| Bournemouth Gardens | NE26 1QQ | 204, plus 3 disabled | £1.20 an hour, 9am to 6pm only |
| Dukes Walk | NE26 1TQ | 37, plus 2 disabled | £1.20 an hour, 9am to 6pm only |
| Mini Golf | NE26 4NQ | 24 | £1.20 an hour, “all days”, no hours given |
Two traps in the free ones. Brierdene has a four-hour maximum stay at all times, with no return within two hours, so it applies on the night as much as it does at noon. Waves only enforces its two-hour limit between 9am and 6pm, so an evening stay there is unrestricted. Blue Badge holders and motorcycles park free in the charged car parks.
Full tariffs, the free car parks away from the seafront and the on-street rules are on our Whitley Bay parking page.
Getting there without the car
The council says only that “traffic in the area will be busy” and asks people to use public transport where they can. Whitley Bay Metro station is about a ten-minute walk from The Links, and the seafront is served by buses along the A193. Our Metro times page has the line and the service pattern.
Road closures
No road closures have been published for the display. Neither the council’s event listing nor any traffic order on its statutory notices page names a closure on the seafront for 1 November. That fits the site: the fireworks are fired over open parkland, not off a road. If an order is advertised closer to the date it will appear on our roadworks and travel page, and we will add it here.
The closures that do come to The Links each autumn belong to the Remembrance Sunday parade, a separate event a week later. The council’s 2026 order puts the Whitley Bay parade at The Links at 3pm on Sunday 8 November, behind a rolling closure from 2.15pm along Station Road, Victoria Terrace, Whitley Road, Park Avenue, Marine Avenue, The Links and Watts Slope. Our Remembrance Sunday page has the rest.
The other two displays in the borough
North Tyneside usually gets three organised displays on three different nights, and all three now have a confirmed 2026 date.
- Tynemouth Cricket Club, Preston Avenue, North Shields, NE30 2BG: Saturday 7 November 2026. The club announced it on 21 September: gates open from 5pm, display starts from 7pm, with fairground rides, food stalls and the club bar open. It is ticketed, with early bird prices on sale now through TicketSource; the club’s post does not state the prices and the ticket page blocks automated reading, so check them there. The club warns that parking is very limited and asks people to come by public transport, and to wear suitable footwear. No 2026 road order has been published yet; last year’s closed the Harbottle footpath from 6pm to 8pm, for firework fallout rather than traffic.
- Segedunum Roman Fort, Buddle Street, Wallsend, NE28 6HR: Thursday 5 November 2026. The council’s road closure order, dated 15 September 2026, shuts Buddle Street where it meets Station Road and Carville Road, in both directions, from 5.30pm to 7.30pm that evening, plus the back lane off Station Road and Buddle Street, “to facilitate the Segedunum firework display”. The museum has not published its 2026 event page yet: last year’s Fireworks at the Fort page has been taken down. Last year it was free after 5pm with the display at 6.30pm; treat those times as last year’s until the museum confirms. Wallsend Metro is the nearest station.
What is not confirmed yet
The council’s listing is the full extent of what has been published for The Links display as of 3 October, unchanged since September. It does not name the fairground operator, list the refreshment traders, or say anything about sparklers, dogs or bag checks. Those details, if they come, usually appear in a council news release in the last two weeks of October. This page will be updated when they do.
Is it on this year
Yes. The council has it listed as a live event with a date, a venue and a price. The only stated way it moves is bad weather, which pushes it to the following night.
Have your say