Sunderland in Summer 1991
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- A walk with my then cutting edge Canon Video 8 camcorder in the summer of 1991. This is not long before Sunderland became a city.
You can get an idea of, how even then, sections of John Street (opposite Joplings) were totally boarded up, as well as one half of Binns department store.
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Hard to watch this. Sunderland destroyed
I was 12 when this was filmed. I still live here in Hendon and I always will. You just don't get the same quality of people elsewhere. Great seeing the old statue in the market square outside the bridges shopping centre. Also great seeing the Thompsons wagon, they are still going. I'm a proud Mackem. Thanks.
Brilliant! Anymore footage of Sunderland?! If yes, please share!
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the very last ship yard building was flattened September last year, and joblings clock went back in 2018. Sunderland's history has gone now.
Its become an absolute eyesore now , All the best shops have gone , the old buses are not on the roads anymore. Sunlun's deffo gone to the dogs now like , shithole. Despite everything , Sunlun will always be me home town but Im livin in Darlington now an Im proud of it , there's a lot for me to do here. Id like to go back to Sunlun one day but only for visits not to live there.
@@joeritchie7286 if i had the option to get move away from sunderland, i would too, there is square root of fuck all here
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Best era of sunderland the 90s! Was only a kid then, its sad to see its just not the same at all anymore😢
Nothings changed. It’s still depressing.
Looks same as it did then, just even more depressing now.
Glad to see Sunderland city councils vision for redevelopment has come to fruition 😐
What’s that got to do with redevelopment. If your solely putting your faith in retail that’s a little short sighted. The railway station has just gone into the rebuild stage. 30 years the public looked at that, to the point where human shit was leaking onto the platform. I walked down fawcett street yesterday, looked like a scene out of 28 days later. Sad to see my city fall behind. I live in Durham now, a breath of fresh air.
@@hithere981 it hadn't affected city centres of Hull,Newcastle,Leeeds,etc.
Good footage, thank you
Nice and undiverse then.
Look how ancient this video looks. Oasis were just coming up then. Feel old now. 😂😂😂
This was the best available home camcorder for the period. Compared to today's GoPros etc it now does seem terrible, but a camcorder back then was £1,000, that's about £2,400 in today's money.
I was 16 for the next 15 years the town was buzzing night life was second to none now its embarrassing Newcastle left us behind
A major part of the greater plan of the EU has for many years been to dictate what industrial activity will be carried out in which EU member states. This is central to their plan and Britain as a whole does not feature as a nation with heavy industry which will be parcelled out across other EU states. Britain then will be a place of light industry at best, service industries but the major activity was intended to be the international financial service industry - which London alone of all Britain has excelled at for hundreds of years! As far as the EU is concerned the rest of the country can go hang!
Whilst the demise of coal mining and ship building, Sunderland's bread and butter was due to many factors, not least of which were lack on infrastructural investment, unionised strikes, wage demands, stoppages and go slows, poor management etc. etc. all leading to a deeply uncompetitive situation vis a vis other global competitors, the over-arching reason for failure is the Grand Plan of the EU whereby UK government was legally powerless to oppose. Until now!
nothing to do with tory governments then? just the bad old EU who btw paid for seaburn development and other projects.
@@michaelallan5317 The EU pays for these things with YOUR own money!
@@michaelallan5317 Everything to do with tory governments yes. But Folk like yourself forget that it was p*dophile Tory boy Edward Heath who signed us up to the EU. That alone should raise a few eyebrows.
@michaelallan5317 And who do you think the very person was who brought us into the EU? Last time I checked it was Ted heath a tory not labour 🤦
I think it was 1991 when the Wearmouth Bridge changed from red to green 🍏. Hmm 🤔. I'm sure I'm right. Lol 😂😆
Oh and the days before the Tyne Wear metro came to Sunderland eh.
I have photos from 1989 and it was a dull red. Looked like primer.
@@tigershoot Aye...The council were thinking a few years ago about repainting the bridge red again for the first time since 1991. A lot of the general public wanted the bridge to be red, but the council changed their minds and stuck to green.
What a surprise eh. Lol 😂😆
Wow, Sunderland looked like it was closing down in 1991. Woolworths, Binns closed, J. L. Thompson's shipyard sheds demolished and shops to lease all over the place. I'd forgotten how badly the Thatcher years had hit Sunderland. I worked at Doxford Engines and was made redundant in 1980, that seemed to be just the start of the dismantling process, I was at Press Offshore at this time which was doing well, but had decided that enough was enough and left for a new life in New Zealand in 1992, but alas I was back by the end of 1994. Sunderland I think seems to be on the up at the moment, hope it's not scuppered by Brexit!
Labour have ruined the city.
They got greedy.
Nothing to do with Thatcher. She is the one who did the greatest thing any politician did in giving people right to buy their council house, and at a massive discount too.
@@ceesmith and sold out future generations for decades to come who then had no social housing, yeah great policy that.
Labour has ruined this City NOT the Tories. John St is a graveyard now along with Holmeside/Vine Place. Fawcett St and John St having 3 lanes of traffic!! Labour killed this City when they went all pedestrianised.
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Absolute nonsense.
Thatcher started the decline when the wages of all those tradesman in the closed down industries were taken away and stopped going into the local economy.
The last 14 years the Tory government cut Sunderland Councils budget by 330 million quid, which meant more redundancies and more service cuts.
The shops closed because like elsewhere in the country lazy arsed people can’t get off their fat arses to go shopping anymore preferring to have it delivered on line.
How is any if this the councils fault.
We were in Joplins on the Saturday it closed.
My parents bought their first microwave in Joplings in 1983. Seems weird now, but a Toshiba turntable microwave was £300. That's £970 in today's money! At least it came with a hardback recipe book.
I had just came home to Sunderland just after the first gulf war
I was 11 when this was taken used to go hanglining down under the bridge so many memories cheers
Tragic!
6:39 when was that entrance point taken down? now it is just a little side entrance and the road behind Blandford St.
Great to have this footage
That is the main entrance to The Bridges from the east (the railway station end). I see now Cafe Nero has been built right in the middle of this entrance.
thank you for this! i was born and raised a mackem, left in 94, only went back for the first time in 2019 and couldn't believe how the place has not changed much. still so many empty shops. such a shame.
its an absolute dump of a place, i wish i could be anywhere but here and not for want of trying.
Literally the only thing that has changed since 91 is that joblings in an abandoned building now 😂
There is now the new university campus that now occupies some of North Sands 09:07
Nonsense
Wow.. i was there from 2005 to 2010
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What was the scaffolding on the bridge there for? anyone know?
It was being painted. If I remember right, it was when they painted the bridge green. There a few complaints from motorists who claimed their cars had got dripped on by the painters!
@@tigershoot i can attest to this! my family still had a funeral directors/embalmers at the time (C W Tait down on Roker Ave.), our garage with the hearses and limousines was down on Wear St, right by the bridge. so our hearse & cars had to cross the bridge a LOT and i remember my dad and the drivers complaining about the dark green spots because of the bridge paint!!!
@@RickTait Another more natural problem I remember was when there were thousands of Starlings pooping from the bridge and crossing it was a lottery.
@@tigershoot The starlings are still around - on my walks over last 18 months during the lockdown there are millions of them down the industrial estate by the river. One night I passed a tree which had so many birds in it and they all shouted at once - it sounded like a crowd in a football stadium.