Aw I love these kinds of videos especially sunderland, would love to see Barclay court the jubilee me dad did the music for the street party I was only 3 but remember it vividly.
same outcome as usual .Lack of morals parenting and discipline and crap govts let it slide into a total dirty crapole just like Peterlee and other new towns .Take me back please
On the 1967 OS map there is a factory marked simply as "Works" in the V of the railways where one line went south over the Victoria Bridge and the other went west through Biddick Lane.There's a road called "Shepherd Way". Can anyone tell me what it made ?
I'm proud of my years spent in and around Washington New town 1970 to 1980. St. Bob's was an absolute blast, Blackfell and Oxclose had tons of energy. Burn's in me, now that I live 3000 miles away.
I can still remember smell of the fountain wall on the first floor, I also remember being absolutely fascinated and kind of frightened of the conveyor belt/ dumbwaiter in the cafe at savacentre.
Bus service was amazing when I went to secondary school 90-95… was cheap, regular service and usually on time! I could go to Newcastle or Sunderland on a bus for about 25p return journey (bargain) 😂
I lived as a child under the Alexandria bridge(Thomas street)and watched the workers going into the shipyard on my 3 wheeler bike am proud to be a Mackem
The Palace brought back memories. It was The Locarno back then and when it first opened there was a man in Top Hat and Tails checking everyone trying to get in on a Saturday night. There was a minimum dress code and I thought I would be fine with my made to measure suit from Jacksons the Tailors. However it was not to be, he would not let me in because I was wearing white socks!!!!!
So sad to see how the Galleries has declined, reflecting a lot of the local problems. It's like a Victorian soup kitchen now. So much poverty around Washington.
Sunderland - a great town when I was growing up there, until it wasn't! Seems to me it all went pear shaped with closure of shipyards, the mines, many worthy businesses and the loss of jobs and incomes that went with all that! The pity of it is that there does not seem to be a real plan for the future, or am I being a merchant of gloom?
No Stewart W, you're not a merchant of gloom. You just expect better things. I think the worst I can remember was the early 90s, but I think it's on the up now that the Vaux site has seen some development. The problem with boarded up shops is that most towns and cities are experiencing that. But I could be accused of being over optimistic.
this is my favourite memories of Sunderland so far, you've got photos of places that I can remember and went to regularly and have real memories of. we lived in a pub in Silksworth from about 1987 to 1990 so fond memories of the bridges, crowtree South shields and the metro centre. the photo of the shops by the bus station really choked me up because that was the view I had every time I got on and off a bus. everything was so much cheaper then and we had proper snowy winters and some cracking summers, remember swimming in the sea at South shields.
Great Pictures, particularly liked the shot of MAWS Pies. A bottle of cider and a Maws pie for lunch when I was at Monkwearmouth College of FE. Couldn't be better.
They overbuilt. Washington was great from about 1970 to 1980 then any sense of community just seemed to vanish as tens of thousands of new people moved in. Then Sunderland Borough Council took over.
Love it always have from being a bairn born in brasside Durham I got swept up by sunland s football team throo me grandads and uncles ! Reet the way throo me life even gannin 2 the rink the Locarno + the many boozers and clubs on roker avenue as well as takin me arn bairns winckleing alang at Whitburn ! Great memories and some that now hurt after the decimation of thatchers evil on sunland ! A pig wi knickers and lipstick on that had nowt but vengeance and bile on the north easts menu ! The only thing she niva took was the good memories ?!?!?!
