Lord Mayor's Field
 

There's been a bit of chat recently about the Lord Mayor's Field. I'd love to know more about the history of it - and the 'urban myth'? that it was gifted to the people of Amble.

I've had a quick google and found a fab image from 1937 of a Lord Mayor of Newcastle visiting the children's holiday camp in Amble. Other than that I have looked on Land Registry and noted that in 1936 it was sold by Michael Lawson Smith to Adamson Dawson Russell and Samuel Smith. Although I may have that backwards! Interestingly ADR ended up being a Lord Mayor of Newcastle in 1939.

So during WW2 it was a POW camp, then somewhere along the line Amble Urban District Council becomes involved, although I can't see when they acquired it (unless it was part of when they bought the caravan site in 1963)

When AUDC was abolished the land ended up with Alnwick District Council. When that was abolished it ended up with NCC.

But anyway I don't see how it would have been gifted to the people, if in 1936 it's privately owned.

Can anyone help? Sorry if I'm revisiting things you have already discussed - in which case please point me to the right thread