Brilliant video, I run the Future Sunderland page, it's such an exciting time to be documenting the developments in the city. It's great to hear about some of the history of the areas that are changing.
My great grandfather had a horse and cart business in the Sheepfolds, collecting steel plates from Monkwearmouth station and delivering them to the shipyards on the river.
I hope with all the development taking place it brings prosperity to Sunderland and gives the city the city its life back which it once had back in the day 😊
I started at Edward Thompsons from School in June 1981 - Worked in that exact building you see being demolished from 1991 - 2004 - then worked back there again from 2017 till closure in 2022 - sad times indeed
I left the town in the late 80’s and it is taking a long time for the redevelopment of the centre to gather pace. The shops are virtually non existent with no department stores at all! The night life appears to have gone completely and only a few pubs are open! Not the Sunderland I remember 😢
I was one who lived in brook st back in the early 60s. We were moved into a brand new house on town end farm. i dont live in sunderland anymore but find it realy great seeing where we played as kids. remember the old railway yard and the scammel 3 wheel wagons flitting in and out, delivering the goods from the railway. Me and my sister went to Thomas street school just behind the bus depot at the wheatsheef. cracking keep up the good work!!!
As a Sunderland ex pat, when I used to regularly come home I always hired a car from Lisa at 'The Fleet Centre' Sheepfolds, but the so called world wide 'pandemic' changed everything for all of us eh...stay cool North East Nostalgic :)
I think the pandemic changed a lot of things unfortunately, some good and some bad I suppose 😊 there are still rent a car places in the sheepfolds, so there'll still be a place for your wheels if you come back to Sunderland!
I think there is a lot of developments happening at the moment which is exciting 😊 hopefully it'll make it a nicer place to live, with more things to do and more places to work!
It’s fascinating to see how Sunderland is changing and evolving, keep up the good work Kathrine, you’re doing an important job in documenting these changes.
Thank you so much as always for your lovely comments 😊 I keep thinking that my videos might be old clips for those in the future so it's nice to try and document as much as possible!
@@northeastnostalgic5071 You’re welcome. Just a thought and it’s a theme that has been done before, but as you have access to a broad archive of old photographs perhaps you could do a now and then video around Sunderland.
Another excellent video,in regards to the history and redevelopment between the river and walk upto the Stadium of Light!Hoping for everyone in the city,including yourself that everything comes to fruitionGreat to see finished redevelopment in a couple of years!?
Sunderland is Changing, shops are closing down, the local council are destroying the greenbelt and biodiversity sites, there is raw sewage in the sea, Everything around the new city hall looks awful. The city is being destroyed by a lack of vision and pure greed by the council.
Totally agree with you mark Sunderland is in a shocking state , Sunderland had some really good shops now there is nothing left , Sunderland dose not need any more hotels or flats it’s about time this council tried to get the big store back .
Forgot to mention the amount of illegals that's landed and the council letting other things such as youth clubs.parks football pitches and so on go with out funds for the locals.but can get the uk government to renovate a Bangladesh centre at a cost of just under 1.3 million.
The Riverside development is brilliant but the ambition needs to be extended to other parts of the city centre. The area around the new station is a real concern. Just outside the entrance is an awful building with an ugly clock that has been broken for 15 years - unbelievable! It needs highlighting.
Did my work experience at Edward Thompson and my dad worked there for over 25 years it was struggling 15 years ago to keep up with modern forms of bingo I believe it was the owners brother Phil Cronin who ventured into Tombola which was a huge success for the region.
Thank you, it’s so important, good people like yourself record the changes for future generations, I was thinking a video on street names could be a interesting idea the sheepfolds for example, one of the streets is called Stobbart Street, stobbart was Lord Lamptons agent and one of the owners of monkearmouth Colliery not a related to me as far as I know, there’s Gladstone street named after the prime Minister and the neighbouring streets named after his cabinet thank you for putting the time and the work into making these videos. Very much appreciated. I love history and I love a visit back to my old town.
That venue beside the stables is putting a load of people out of work. Several garages many who have been there 40 years plus Car body, repair shop Stonemasons on several other businesses who employ people, but Sunderland Council aren’t bothered about that are they. Certain people in Sunderland council are just happy to get backhanders from the builders to sell the land of cheap to them, happens all the time with this corrupt labour council. They even closed the leisure centre because Land Securities wanted to expand the bridges shopping centre
That could make a really interesting video! There's not a lot of signs of Sunderlands shipbuilding past apart from the Pallion shed that is being turned into a film studio, and a few bits of the gates on the riverside. There's not a lot left of Swan Hunter's yard in Wallsend either, but I did find part of Armstrong Works factory in Elswick so that'll be a video to come 😊
I thought all that had been pulled down , I'm not from Sunderland but my mates dad owned or rented the stables for a caravan repair business , he took me down one day in the 80's , I cannot even remember why , his brother said his dad retiring and place was getting pulled down for the Stadium , my mate said they filmed or were going to film a Catherine Cookson scenes in the yard , I used to work at a bodyshop in Leechmere they had a place in the city centre it used to be a Laundry .
Having lived in Sunderland my entire life I can honestly say this is just more unnecessary crap from the council. I saw a new Tesco in town and realised it wasn't a Tesco, it was a train station designed to look like a supermarket from the outside. The council have found money for a foot bridge despite a bridge already being there, yet no money to sort the roads out around the city. They have found money to sink into entertainment venues near the stadium and yet the town centre is dying a death, with major store after major store closing. It's nothing more than a vanity project, washing taxpayer money so that the local rich people who will be buying the new houses nearby have somewhere to go and have a little less further to walk. Just look at what the council did for their new building. They spent an absolute fortune on that building when they had a perfectly good building already which they could have renovated for much less. They are simply forgetting that they are in the North East. We're not London, we don't want to be London. Stop dumping all of our money into the town centre and start using it where the people actually live. Get some bloody play parks built for the kids. Get the community centres back up and actually put stuff on to engage the community. Stop making it so that the only thing the elderly and youth in Sunderland can do for fun is get to a bar easily. We used to have actual stuff for working-class kids to do. We have nothing now but Weatherspoons and a system of funnelling taxpayer money into the areas owned by rich residents.
This channel is a about a young lady pulling together both the history and development of Sunderland together. I think it it is very well presented and engaging. You made the point about the City Hall costing more than the refurbishment of the the Civic Centre, to get the facts I would talk to your local councillor or put in a FOI request. In terms of the shops closing that is called the way of big business. Go to any other town/city it’s all the same if not worse. This is a nostalgia channel not a political forum.
Had some great nights out in Sunderland for many years. But mass immigration has killed this city just like many other cities. I have never seen a city or town prosper after mass immigration and Sunderland will be no different
Sunderland has had the smallest migration out of any city in the UK, and yet it is less prosperous than almost all others. Meanwhile Cambridge, Peterborough, and Reading had the highest increase - all places developing at high rates
These are exciting times for Sunderland. I just worry that folk will have the money and the will to support all these new bars, eateries and entertainment venues. Once the infrastructure is in place we need to promote the city as somewhere to come for a weekend break. How about "There's more to the North East than Newcastle"!
@@psmith77271Newcastle has more landmarks u dafty the only landmark Sunderland have is penshaw monument and its not even in the town centre also tyne bridge gets more visitors than Sunderland all together 🤣
@@iTsRidIey newcastle does not have more landmarks. Sunderland has more than penshaw. Hylton castle Fullwell mill Roker & meiks lighthouse Wearmouth bridge Northern spire bridge.
@@psmith77271 off where wikipedia all u have is penshaw monument also if u say u have more landmarks how come no one visits them? delusional mug thinks people visit sunderland😂
