Wonderful photos. I left the town 44 years ago. I used to go to sleep to the sound of the shipyard welders. My grandfather worked in the shipyards. I had a Saturday job in Binns emptying containers from the money shutes.
It's sad to watch once thriving and so full of life I loved the sounds of the shipyards and the trains lugging coal and watching the pit wheel's seeing all the miners going to the pit for their shifts and lad's leaving after their stints very hard grafters then I also wish I could go back to the 70s so many happy memory's in Sunderland☺...
Love my city and always will and love these types of clips just Wish my Dad was still here to share a story or Two and to see the sights be it not all the pretty all of the time but generally good and good folk at heart 👍😘
A thriving town(then) shipyards, pits, work, sadly gone. A shadow of it's former self. Also gone the great building that was the town hall. Damn fucking council.
When Sunderland got into the 1973 cup final, they painted the "Town Bridge" red and white not just white. They also painted the Halway House Pub in Southwick red and white along with most of market square, Jacky Whites...road markings, trees, Binns, Mobray Park, all the buses..........
Sunderland, once a dream city, now nothing - where's the legacy? Wheres the History? its very sad I wish I was alive back in the day with the industry!!
as a sunderland lad i wish i could pull wearside back together because i would if i had the power it is a mighty town and one it should bounce back! are you listening sunderland council forget about up the road concentrate on sunderland for once! money
I was born and bred in the city, well, it was a town when I was a lad - I left when I was 19 and moved around the country, but Sunderland will always be home for me. I'm back up here now and immensely proud of my roots. Yes, the city has changed over the years - sometimes for the good - and sometimes not so - but there again everywhere has - change unfortunately won't always please or suit everyone - but I prefer to focus on the positives. For me - I'm proud to tell people that I'm from here - my only gripe is I wish some Southerners would stop regarding anyone who lives North of Watford gap a Geordie, I usually suggest they walk down the Bigg Market in Newcastle one Saturday night, about 11 o clock, and ask someone if a Sunderland resident is a Geordie - after ignoring the expletives - there could possibly be one or two - they can then inform me if their opinion has been modified.
I'm from newcastle and totally agree with what your saying about people getting called geordies Web ther not please tell them from durham the same as they think there geordies and ther not.
Couldn't agree more Carl, my wife's a Geordie, born and bred in Fenham and one of my relatives was born and raised in Longbenton. Always remember back in the early 1990's coming back up North for a week's break and boarding an InterCity train at Kings Cross that was stopping off at Newcastle and I struck up a conversation with this bloke from Portsmouth who was ordering some tea at the refreshment bar, he asked where I was getting off and I said Newcastle and then I was catching a local train to Sunderland, at which point he said, "oh yeah, Newcastle, I think the Mersey runs through that doesn't it?" I didn't reply because I thought it was a wind up, well that or he must have received VERY bad marks for geography at school - assuming he went to school in the first place of course - but he kept wittering on about how wide the river was, the ferry and Cilla Black?????? How anyone could think Cilla Black was from Newcastle I've NO idea - maybe he was drinking vodka - not tea - anyway, whatever he was on I definitely didn't want any. All I know is that if ever I wanted to visit the North Pole - I'd HATE to have him navigating - we'd probably end up at the South Pole instead - or who knows - Liverpool maybe!
@@digitalmaverickuk ah! That's Pompey for you.i went up to St James Park to watch my team, Brighton,the gallowgate were singing 'we hate cockneys' so we started singing it back,cue lots of head scratching from the Newcastle fans.went to roker park in 1978 too,it was fantastic,love the north east, decent fans like us on the south coast
I lived in a house that whose rubble probably formed the foundations of the Stadium of Light. I left Sunderland in 1970's and went back for a visit in 2001. I was shocked. The old shoe repairers at the end of the town bridge had gone, Chippy's the model shop gone, the Grand Hotel..gone, Geo. Clarke's giant crane...gone, the sheep which used to graze on the top of Alexandra Bridge...gone, shipbuilding...gone, Wearmouth Colliery..gone,
That was excellent, thank you for sharing it with us. In the picture of the Danish ferries at North Sands, the yellow luffing crane in the foreground and one of the other luffing cranes (two same as each other) still survive to this day. They are on the river Tees on the north side just east of the Transporter bridge. They were moved there when the yard closed. I saw them a couple of weeks ago, you can't mistake them. As you know the rest were demolished.
Definitely brought a lump to my throat, as a little girl l could see the orange brick college clock on Green Terrace which stopped decades ago from our kitchen window, St Michael's Place was torn down in 1974 along with surrounding streets in order to build Sunderland university, can still trace exactly where it was, a stone's throw from University metro. The old college eventually became a nightclub.
A once thriving town, utterly destroyed economically by successive vision-free and incompetent Labour councils, short-sighted industry management and militant unionism. I was born there and lived and worked there until 1975 when I left for ever in sheer disgust.
it upsets me now that my city is in now man!!! away sunderland council please do something about it im no football person i like all northeast citys newcastle and sunderland should be proper city together and its about time sunderland was saved
My Dad and Brother worked at Doxford's, when i say worked i use the term lightly, my Brother took a pillow with him on night shift, he later moved down river a bit and worked at Coles cranes, he done as little as possible there as well, My Father made lots of rings and garden tools i seem to recall
There were definitely sheep grazing ont he top of Alexandra Bridge in the middle to late 1960s. There was a grassy hill right behind the 'Pegasus' sign just on the left of the road as you came off the bridge into Stony Lane, Southwick. You could see the sheep from there. You're not nuts. I am also guessing you are over 50!!! LOL
@@davemacdonald3889 yes! And Mrs Kennard, whose son died in a motorbike bike accident - sports days in the old Bull ring and ghosts in the outside bogs! Happy bloody days! 🤗
The backbone of sunderland has been destroyed once a thriving town used to love the sounds of industry now it's like a ghost town absolutely disgusting soul's of former people who worked so hard will be turning in their graves what a waste absolutely disgusted beyond belief. .....
@@bazooka1892 no it hasn't.Yiu are posting absolute bullshit.Sunderland was a once proud town-city.It wasn't perfect but it had a lot going for it including the coastline and riverside of course.
Many years of Labour mis rule and govt neglect have ruined a once proud town-city. Newcastle.....affluent Sunderland....deprived. Things MUST change for this north east ghost city.We need levelling up with Newcastle let alone the South.
It is changing! By Keele Square they're building fancy new offices near the old Vaux site! Newcastle is a better city, though. Sunderland has lots of them funny little houses!
@@Juliukas101 it's a better city because it's been well run by successive councils and has had the serious govt investment which has also gone to Gateshead a town. As for the Vaux site you are alluding to, it has taken over 20 years to get where we are now because the said council never purchased the prime city centre land at that time when it became available with a compulsory purchase..20 years of time and investment wasted. Funny little houses...terraced cottages. Sunderland left behind while Newcastle was not.The north east should have TWO great functional cities but unfortunately only has one.
Originally from London, I was a student at Sunderland from 1984 to 1987, no matter what others may say I personally had blast there, very friendly people and a fun town. I climbed the old Wearmouth Hall Building shown in the pictures all the way to the top after leaving the student union bar one night :-), it is now gone and replaced :-(. Have not been back since 1994, need to visit again.
sunderland county of durham it should be again! sunderland council have a lot to answer for and now its about time something should be done before it gets worse than it is now and that is terrible need i say more
Sunderland is one of the places left totally behind by the Westminster elite.Combined with many years of Labour mis rule it has resulted in a once proud town- city becoming an after thought ,deprived ,hollow city which is always trying g to play catch up.It is shocking how a once great industrial city has been reduced to a shadow of its former self.
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Wonderful photos. I left the town 44 years ago. I used to go to sleep to the sound of the shipyard welders. My grandfather worked in the shipyards. I had a Saturday job in Binns emptying containers from the money shutes.
went back home last year after over 40 years away not the sunderland i remember so sad
I left Sunderland in '77
but will always have great
memories of the town.
Ha'way the lads !!!
I lived in Colchester Terrace.
@GAZ GAZ
Seems he doesn't want to know.
I'm in kitchener st.
Originally from Penshaw.
Great part of the planet.
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My heart are part of Sunderland from spain never forget the city of tyne & wear 🇪🇦❤️😘
It's sad to watch once thriving and so full of life I loved the sounds of the shipyards and the trains lugging coal and watching the pit wheel's seeing all the miners going to the pit for their shifts and lad's leaving after their stints very hard grafters then I also wish I could go back to the 70s so many happy memory's in Sunderland☺...
Love my city and always will and love these types of clips just Wish my Dad was still here to share a story or Two and to see the sights be it not all the pretty all of the time but generally good and good folk at heart 👍😘
A thriving town(then) shipyards, pits, work, sadly gone. A shadow of it's former self. Also gone the great building that was the town hall. Damn fucking council.
+MrLespaul2000 Yes that was a sad video to watch. A proud symbol of employment and manufacturing now just a wasteland, terrible.
When Sunderland got into the 1973 cup final, they painted the "Town Bridge" red and white not just white. They also painted the Halway House Pub in Southwick red and white along with most of market square, Jacky Whites...road markings, trees, Binns, Mobray Park, all the buses..........
Brings back lots of good memories. Perhaps the title should be `` Sunderland Now and Then `` I enjoyed it the never the less.
I'd love to go back in time to say 1970and start again
Grew up in Pallion in the 70s, used to love the coal wagons going past my house, great memories. 😎
Year I was born.
hi, we go over from cork to matches every few months and stay in roker terrace.it looks like it in one of the pictures.love the place and people.dan
for those wondering the song is hear our prayer by Yuki kajiura..
Sunderland, once a dream city, now nothing - where's the legacy? Wheres the History? its very sad I wish I was alive back in the day with the industry!!
as a sunderland lad i wish i could pull wearside back together because i would if i had the power it is a mighty town and one it should bounce back! are you listening sunderland council forget about up the road concentrate on sunderland for once! money
I was born and bred in the city, well, it was a town when I was a lad - I left when I was 19 and moved around the country, but Sunderland will always be home for me. I'm back up here now and immensely proud of my roots.
Yes, the city has changed over the years - sometimes for the good - and sometimes not so - but there again everywhere has - change unfortunately won't always please or suit everyone - but I prefer to focus on the positives.
For me - I'm proud to tell people that I'm from here - my only gripe is I wish some Southerners would stop regarding anyone who lives North of Watford gap a Geordie, I usually suggest they walk down the Bigg Market in Newcastle one Saturday night, about 11 o clock, and ask someone if a Sunderland resident is a Geordie - after ignoring the expletives - there could possibly be one or two - they can then inform me if their opinion has been modified.
I'm from newcastle and totally agree with what your saying about people getting called geordies Web ther not please tell them from durham the same as they think there geordies and ther not.
Couldn't agree more Carl, my wife's a Geordie, born and bred in Fenham and one of my relatives was born and raised in Longbenton.
Always remember back in the early 1990's coming back up North for a week's break and boarding an InterCity train at Kings Cross that was stopping off at Newcastle and I struck up a conversation with this bloke from Portsmouth who was ordering some tea at the refreshment bar, he asked where I was getting off and I said Newcastle and then I was catching a local train to Sunderland, at which point he said, "oh yeah, Newcastle, I think the Mersey runs through that doesn't it?"
I didn't reply because I thought it was a wind up, well that or he must have received VERY bad marks for geography at school - assuming he went to school in the first place of course - but he kept wittering on about how wide the river was, the ferry and Cilla Black??????
How anyone could think Cilla Black was from Newcastle I've NO idea - maybe he was drinking vodka - not tea - anyway, whatever he was on I definitely didn't want any.
All I know is that if ever I wanted to visit the North Pole - I'd HATE to have him navigating - we'd probably end up at the South Pole instead - or who knows - Liverpool maybe!
@@digitalmaverickuk ah! That's Pompey for you.i went up to St James Park to watch my team, Brighton,the gallowgate were singing 'we hate cockneys' so we started singing it back,cue lots of head scratching from the Newcastle fans.went to roker park in 1978 too,it was fantastic,love the north east, decent fans like us on the south coast
So sad, so many changes and not all of them for the better.
Excellent video well made.
mint vid music makes it sound cool
I lived in a house that whose rubble probably formed the foundations of the Stadium of Light. I left Sunderland in 1970's and went back for a visit in 2001. I was shocked. The old shoe repairers at the end of the town bridge had gone, Chippy's the model shop gone, the Grand Hotel..gone, Geo. Clarke's giant crane...gone, the sheep which used to graze on the top of Alexandra Bridge...gone, shipbuilding...gone, Wearmouth Colliery..gone,
That was excellent, thank you for sharing it with us.
In the picture of the Danish ferries at North Sands, the yellow luffing crane in the foreground and one of the other luffing cranes (two same as each other) still survive to this day. They are on the river Tees on the north side just east of the Transporter bridge. They were moved there when the yard closed. I saw them a couple of weeks ago, you can't mistake them. As you know the rest were demolished.
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This is so good
Definitely brought a lump to my throat, as a little girl l could see the orange brick college clock on Green Terrace which stopped decades ago from our kitchen window, St Michael's Place was torn down in 1974 along with surrounding streets in order to build Sunderland university, can still trace exactly where it was, a stone's throw from University metro. The old college eventually became a nightclub.
sigh.. I miss sunderland sometimes.. its been 9 months since I left the place and back to India..
Yep, and years of paying for a metro that we never had up untill a couple of years back
Even then it ended at So Hylton..Should have had lines to Washington,Penshaw,Houghton,Doxford Park,etc.
Adam, I'm also a proud mackem.Good on you.
excellent historical feature on the long gone but not forgotten sunderland shipyards. great music, who is it by ?
Man this is my home town and seeing it like that thriving and ships horns I’m suprised
i had the old pics and tried to get the modern ones from the same spot.
What a dreary place!
Never used to be.
what year was the town bridge white ?
A once thriving town, utterly destroyed economically by successive vision-free and incompetent Labour councils, short-sighted industry management and militant unionism. I was born there and lived and worked there until 1975 when I left for ever in sheer disgust.
Where did you go? Been back since?
it upsets me now that my city is in now man!!! away sunderland council please do something about it im no football person i like all northeast citys newcastle and sunderland should be proper city together and its about time sunderland was saved
The only thing we make now is phone calls from Doxford Inc..it's so sad
Is the last pic next to the Bungalo Cafe in Roker?
Yep
My Dad and Brother worked at Doxford's, when i say worked i use the term lightly, my Brother took a pillow with him on night shift, he later moved down river a bit and worked at Coles cranes, he done as little as possible there as well, My Father made lots of rings and garden tools i seem to recall
My brother worked there for a while and he went in his pyjamas.
There were definitely sheep grazing ont he top of Alexandra Bridge in the middle to late 1960s. There was a grassy hill right behind the 'Pegasus' sign just on the left of the road as you came off the bridge into Stony Lane, Southwick. You could see the sheep from there. You're not nuts. I am also guessing you are over 50!!! LOL
ahh i done this, well, not made the video but started that topic, im never on there now...
this used to be beatiful.
in the 60s and seventies it was ok suppose I was lucky I lived at seaburn dene never really seen the rough as a rasp area's. .....
eeh i went to old green terrace school that is now debenhams, my playground was tbe gill, wtf have the done to our town/city x
Julie Cook I went to Green Terrace School as well mid to late 70s.The teacher's I can remember are Mr Andrews Smith Steinberg and Mrs Richardson.
@@davemacdonald3889 yes! And Mrs Kennard, whose son died in a motorbike bike accident - sports days in the old Bull ring and ghosts in the outside bogs! Happy bloody days! 🤗
The backbone of sunderland has been destroyed once a thriving town used to love the sounds of industry now it's like a ghost town absolutely disgusting soul's of former people who worked so hard will be turning in their graves what a waste absolutely disgusted beyond belief. .....
Michael Loughlin it has always been a fucking trampy shithole. take your rose glasses off man you BAM.
@@bazooka1892 no it hasn't.Yiu are posting absolute bullshit.Sunderland was a once proud town-city.It wasn't perfect but it had a lot going for it including the coastline and riverside of course.
Your title's wrong, should be, Now and Then.
Many years of Labour mis rule and govt neglect have ruined a once proud town-city.
Newcastle.....affluent
Sunderland....deprived.
Things MUST change for this north east ghost city.We need levelling up with Newcastle let alone the South.
It is changing! By Keele Square they're building fancy new offices near the old Vaux site! Newcastle is a better city, though. Sunderland has lots of them funny little houses!
@@Juliukas101 it's a better city because it's been well run by successive councils and has had the serious govt investment which has also gone to Gateshead a town.
As for the Vaux site you are alluding to, it has taken over 20 years to get where we are now because the said council never purchased the prime city centre land at that time when it became available with a compulsory purchase..20 years of time and investment wasted.
Funny little houses...terraced cottages.
Sunderland left behind while Newcastle was not.The north east should have TWO great functional cities but unfortunately only has one.
makes me upset as my friends was ship builders on the wear and tories destroyed sunderland but i will fight to bring sunderland back!
And now you’re languishing in the Third Division 😂
I was actually born in sunderland
+Ray Stubbs There's always one obnoxious foul mouthed ignorant moron!
sunderland should be county of durham again before it gets worse than it is now
Originally from London, I was a student at Sunderland from 1984 to 1987, no matter what others may say I personally had blast there, very friendly people and a fun town. I climbed the old Wearmouth Hall Building shown in the pictures all the way to the top after leaving the student union bar one night :-), it is now gone and replaced :-(. Have not been back since 1994, need to visit again.
+JV110 it's changed a lot.
@sunboy1000
we still got nissan lol
sunderland county of durham it should be again! sunderland council have a lot to answer for and now its about time something should be done before it gets worse than it is now and that is terrible need i say more
Need you say more?
You haven't said anything!
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yep got worse
One of the saddest city’s in the U.K......it’s a toilet!
Sunderland is one of the places left totally behind by the Westminster elite.Combined with many years of Labour mis rule it has resulted in a once proud town- city becoming an after thought ,deprived ,hollow city which is always trying g to play catch up.It is shocking how a once great industrial city has been reduced to a shadow of its former self.