Hello! Today we're exploring the East End of Sunderland and 'Old Sunderland'; an area full of hidden history! Please like and subscribe if you enjoyed this video, and follow me on Instagram and Tiktok at NorthEastNostalgic!
Absolutely fantastic series of videos and you can just tell that they are produced with pride and more importantly to me narrated with an authentic accent. Our city is seeing great change and we need to support people like this who will document it.
Brilliant narration , great knowledge of this historical area. You have such an interesting voice, telling us the story as you're walking by. Love these videos x🥰🥰
Absolutely wonderful video and presentation, My mothers family lived at Bodwell lane, and she used to reminisce about life a a child and youngster, a lot of family's had big family's, well there was no telly😱 joking aside, there was unemployment, poverty, but our town in a way was booming we had shipyards industry's coalmines etc its so sad now ,with all this new age xxxx everything is bad or us, etc etc,man as lost is way and is being led by parliaments goats and sheep,
I walked down Church Walk on my first day at the railway depot off Prospect Row back in 1989, I enjoyed many a drink in the Welcome, great memories of my years in Sunderland.
Jack Crawford nailed the colours to the mast at the Battle of Camperdown, not Trafalgar, but otherwise very interesting. I grew up in the East End but haven't been back for 50 years. So said to see what an empty, dead, desolate place it has become.
Oh thank you for correcting me! I must have misread when checking my sources 😊 the east end does seem to have changed a lot, only really retaining a few historic buildings from the past due to slum clearances.
Jack Crawford did however have rather a tenuous link to the Battle of Trafalgar. He was one of eight naval heroes of the day who were chosen to carry Nelson's coffin at the late admiral's state funeral in 1805. Nelson had famously met his end quite early on in the Battle of Trafalgar falling to a shot from a sniper located in the rigging of an enemy ship. Nelson had made himself a rather obvious target having unwisely insisted on dressing in his full Admiral's uniform for the battle.
Sunderland went through some hard times in the 70's and 80's but a lot of folk there seem to be working their socks off to make it a place to be proud of
Never saw enough of my old home town before emigrating to sunnier climes. Wish I had kept my eyes open when I had the chance. Hardly recognise my old stomping ground.
High street east used to have more pubs than anywhere in the world in an half a mile area. Which will give an idea how busy our ports used to be. We have always been a poor area of the country but that has always bred a common bond amongst us. We have a unique history & should be proud if who we are.
Best city and people in the whole of the North East hurts me as a Red House lad living in Yorkshire to return occasionally to see it rapidly going into decline Mackems deserve a lot better 😢
My grandmother had a tobacconist shop in the High street in the Early 1900 She was widowed with 8 children the youngest being only 6months old the then vicar wanted to place my father into the orphanage but his elder brother takes him you take us all. My uncle who saved him this plight faught in the first world war and was killed his name is on the plaque on Holy Trinity we saw this 2 years ago when we stayed at the BoarsHead roughly opposite grandmas shop
when i was a young girl I went down to the riverside where the abandoned house alongside the m¨bridge is. dangerous fun in the 1970s. Sunderland has lost much of its character with only windows of a great past amongst the rubbish and decay.
Lived in Sunderland for 26 year, but still go back for parents, the match, etc, and yet I never knew about some of these places. Goes to show we do have nice buildings like Newcastle, we just don't expose them. Fab videos 👍
Sunderland is the worst place in the universe. It’s worse than the core of a black hole or neutron star, it’s worse than the battlefields of WW1 and WW2, it’s worse than Hiroshima in 1945.
