Looking down Fawcett Street for a change.
Union Street from High Street West.
The Athenaeum, 1870.
Fawcett St, showing Town Hall and The Atheneum Buildings
High st. west, Mackies corner in the distance.
High st. west, North end of the station in view.
1937. in Mowbray Park.
Union street bus station and Phoenix
House on the site now, give or take.
Fitters Row , Hat Case.
Looking down Church Lane to the Dun Cow public house.
Palmer's arcade, St Thomas's church cleared after being bombed WWII.
Inside Palmer's arcade 1898.
Inside Palmer's arcade 1965.
Inside Palmer's arcade early 70's some years before it was sadly pulled down.
Top of Crowtree street.
Ox drawn delivery on Vine Place.
Holmeside when the Odeon was still Blacks.
North Eastern Railways Sunderland railway station 1919 with the all enclosed arched roof.
Union Street ,From the Station's clock tower.
Sydenham House, 1st in the country
to use terracotta for decoration.
Borough Road.with the museum and original Binns in view.
Borough Road,1924. From the other direction.
Bridge Street. early 1900's.
Bridge Street. before 1929 as in before the new bridge.
Sheep on John Street, buildings still there but no sheep these days.
Magistrate courts John Street.
East side of Fawcett Street.
Blandford street, much the same today.
Grand Hotel, Bridge Street. went in 1974.
Central Reading Rooms next to the old Town Hall, pulled down with the Town Hall in 1971, only thing the tories did for our town.
Havelock corner in the 1950's.
High Street.from the North End of the Station.
High Street West, looking down from Mackies corner on the left.
Now looking up Holmeside and the right hand side has changed very little by the looks of it.
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Central Station. Union Street and looking towards High Street West, Went late 60's
Aerial view of Binns and the old railway line, 1922.
1Bishopwearmouth Green village and only the wall (Green Terrace) exists nowadays. .
Low Row, Green Terrace with Bishopwearmouth Church tower just in view slightly right of centre.
View from Robson's Flour Mill of Bishopwearmouth.
Looking down Green Terrace to Albion Place, where The National Reserve and Cooper Rose is nowadays
Green Terrace Primary School being demolished.
Dicky Chilton outside his house which became Wetheralls on the Green at Bishopwearmouth.
Foyle Street in 1863.
13th century Collier's Row only the fire station remains.
John Street in the middle, before the museum..
Looking down Union Street, South end of station.
Museum And Library Opened 1879.
Looking from the south end The Bricklayer's Arms on the left at the bottom,Gents on right.
North end of the railway station in colour!
Another view of the North end of the railway station,that's the windows of the Bricklayer's Arms, beer barrels were kept in the tunnel underneath.
Demolition of the main 1879 block of Sunderland station in
1966 revealing the gable end of the former booking hall.
Demolition Of Town Hall, another sad day yet again for Sunderland people.
1970 Destruction of the Town Hall.
Sad start of the demolition of the Town Hall taken from Union Street, in 1970.
Wearmouth bridge toll booth.
A stunning photograph of Mowbray Park that precedes the building of the museum and the Winter Gardens.
Dunning street, now St Mary's Way.
Walworth Way where Primani is now.
Bottom of Chester Road only the middle buildings remain.
Buildings south of the fire station and none of them from the Dun Cow down has survived.
Crowtree Road - The Carnaby Street of Old Sunlund.
Crowtree Road arch before next pic.
A different view of Crowtree Road with The Crowtree, The Red Lion Hotel and The Londonderry in view and 11 Pennywell bus to boot.
Crowtree Road 60's, the two lines of shops on the end of Maritime terrace are the only bit of the street in view that are still standing.
And the arch after is now a bit further off.
Early pic of Collier Row, High street west off the end of Crowtree road.
Aftermath of the Havelock House fire in 1898
Early postcard of the Winter Gardens.
Cracking close up of Mackie's clock.
Atmospheric photo of the much missed Town Hall.
Skaters on Mowbray lake with the Winter Gardens in view.
Winter view of Mowbray park from upstairs in Binns.
Inside The old Winter Gardens.
Winter Gardens - just after the site was bombed in 1941.
Unfortunately Mr Hitler visited one night, Victoria Hall bombed 1941.
Victoria Hall with colouring by Sarah Stoner
Sunderland First Train Station, Fawcett Street.
A snowy Fawcett Street with houses.
Waltons Hotel, Fawcett Street next to Sydenham House..
The 'new' station platform Viewed from the north end.
High Street West, Beardall for pretty bonnets, just love it.
Sunderland Food Offices 1957, corner of Athenaeum and John street replaced by a square monstrosity, solicitors I believe..
VE Day in 1945, Fawcett Street.
Good Friday Service in Fawcett Street in April 1957. Not so many religious people these days tho'
Beatlemania,High street Sunderland, anybody recognise themselves... .
HMS Cairo Reception at Sunderland Town Hall.
The DLI getting the freedom of the town in front of the museum.
War memorial gathering on Burdon Road.
Maritime Terrace and basically where Crowtree Road is.
The Town Hall itself, early 1900's
Technical College in Durham Road, shame the roundabout has gone.
Low Row weighbridge with Vaux horses been checked for weight, just wonderful.
The Co-op on High Street, closed late 70's I believe.
The Echo Clock, it's at Beamish these days.
Last days of the Blue Monkey, 1994, funny that, it was listed for it's interior and a 'mysterious' fire started inside allowing the council to pull it down as per usual.
Looking down Blandford Street towards Binns.
Looking up Blandford Street to Maritime Terrace.
Clearing the snow at Mowbray Park between the wars.
Crowtree Terrace looking at Binns warehouse.
Old photo of Low Row, opposite the Bishopwearmouth church,
Little Gate, Bishopwearmouth.
The Elephant Tea Shop, had the builder had not ran out of money the whole of Fawcett Street was to be in this style.
Echo Office on Bridge Street..
The old station in colour.
Sunderland museum and I've never seen the side awning before.
Low Row from another angle .
Low Row.
Sunderland Borough Mounted Police in the stalls at the Central Fire Station in 1923.
Inside the Town Hall.
Town Hall doorway on Fawcett Street.
Havelock House fire 1898. another angle.
Cowan Terrace timber yard.
Hind Street and cooking with gas.
Inside Sunderland rail station 1953.
Council chambers.
Binns getting its tunnel built.
Looking along Waterloo Place towards the old South End of the Station, the tower over the North End can also be seen in the distance, c 1902
Wearmouth Bridge toilets. Shame about the pipes..
These toilets must be listed as they are still there but closed,
Wearmouth Bridge toilet gate down to the photos earlier.
Same toilets from a different angle and note the large pipe that caused them to be closed, remember using them in late 60's.
The steps down to Wearmouth bridge toilet, crikey imagine standing peeing hanging under Wearmouth Bridge..
Bishopwearmouth old buildings Green Terrace.
Bowes Almshouses on Bishopwearmouth Green, demolished 1963 Mowbray Almshouses still there.
Bishopwearmouth green old homes.
Colliery row on High street west.
From Mackies corner end of Fawcett street.
The old eye infirmary on Stockton road.
Early pictures of the north end of the railway station for Lynne M
