A Tribute to Sunderland Civic Centre

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In 2022 demolition work began to raze Sunderland's landmark modernist town hall, considered by many to be an architectural gem in the North East.
In order to pay tribute to a building which served its community so admirably, I captured a roll of 35mm film photographs of the Civic Centre on my cheap plastic Holga camera, which I now present alongside a specially-written memorial poem.
If you are interested to see more of my photography or poetry, visit my other channel: / @carefulcharlie or my instagram at @carefulcharlie

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17 сен 2024

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Комментарии : 17

@tjidk1 Год назад

I pass it every day from school, it’s quite sad to see it demolished. But the car park is very creepy and derelict.

@gpo746 9 месяцев назад

I grew up round the corner from there and it was falling to bits in the 80's . Always creepy and seemed deserted even during the weekdays barring ever appearing soggy confetti from weddings . Loved the little bridge over to Mowbray though, even thats gone .

@CM_Railways Год назад

will miss it lots - looked very cool and lots of bricks used! houses are going to be built on it now 😢

@ellendoad1919 Год назад

just like perrache

@CM_Railways Год назад

@@ellendoad1919 who are you

@Urbaburble Год назад

Very nice approach taken. Thanks for making this video.

@edificity Год назад

Very kind, thanks

@rich_devoto Год назад

Famously the architect walked into one of his hexagonal floor to ceiling windows on it's opening day. It looked quite something for it's first decade or 2 but bits started to fall off and the underground car park was dark, dingy, wet, and a far too low ceiling.

@thomascolauto Год назад

Really appreciate the effort behind these short documantairies 👍 ha never even heard of this builing before but it's a interesting neeche 🙂

@CEBRU07 Год назад

Like Kingsgate Dunelm Bridge in Durham. Now needs a good clean although fantastic architecture when I was there early 1970's.

@edificity Год назад

Fantastic building, very glad it's been saved

@Holly-w5x 2 месяца назад

Great narration but would be even better with a big deep booming voice.

@taylora5224 Год назад

So sad to see this go. I love mid century architecture, the new building is just boring.

@CEBRU07 Год назад

We were told the flats were full of sea salt and would never last...

@neilscott910 Год назад

I am glad it has gone, a 50 year old obsolete building. City Hall is newer and better.

@colinbrown7310 27 дней назад

It was an awful building and in my view the awards were a con trick. I walked through it every day in the 70s and it was a dead, litter strewn place. The new city hall makes a far better statement and the new housing on the old site looks great.