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Boddlewell ferry just Off High Street..j

Boddlewell ferry just Off High Street.

The Hat Case South Alley 1895..jpg
Bodlewell llane..jpg

Boddlewell Lane just off High Street.

The Hat Case was the most deprived area

The Hat Case was the most deprived area of the East End and had a mortality rate of 20% of all      children and averaged 6 people living in a room.

The Hat Case South Alley 1895.

Burliegh St. Near bottom of high st..jpg
Low Row down on the quayside..jpg

Low Row down on the Quayside.

.(Bodlewell Street,1937) Just off High S
Vine Street Mission Rooms..jpg
Villiers street..png

Villiers street.

Looking down Nile street..jpg
Looking up Nile street..jpg

Looking down Nile street.

Looking up Nile street.

Customs.House on Ettricks Quay.jpg
East Cross Stree.jpg
Assembly Garth.jpg
St John's Church and Moor Board School c

St John's Church and Moor Board School c1960's.

Back of Rickaby Street..jpg
Front view of Harrison's Buildings. Buil

Back of Rickaby Street.

High Street.East.,started at the Ship In
High St Exchange Building.(drawing).jpg

High Street Exchange Building.

High Street.East.,started at the Ship Inn and down to the docks.

Nesham Square, down the bottom of the ea

Nesham Square, down the bottom of East End.

Another view of Harrisons Buildings.jpg
Wear Garth..jpg

Another view of Harrison's Buildings

Eastern end of High Street c 1930..jpg

Eastern end of High Street c 1930.

Wear Garth.

High Street East..jpg
Fighting Cock Lane..jpg

Fighting Cock Lane.

Stamp Lane, High Street East.

Mark Quay..jpg

Mark Quay and what a building.

Numbers Garth in 1890, Low Street area..

Numbers Garth in 1890, Low Street area.

Sans street..jpg

Sans street.

Long Bank, Low Quay. And who was Jane An
Jollys garage, used to be a cinema..jpg

Jollys garage, used to be a cinema.

Long Bank, Low Quay. And who was Jane AnnTeacake?

Sussex-Street..jpg

Sussex Street.

Jimmie Willie's from the other direction
Jimmie Willie's, with info..jpg
The_post_windmill,_Hendon.,_an_‘ancient_

The post windmill, Hendon., an ‘ancient wooden stob-mill’ with a massive post. 

lost when the entire structure blew over

Jimmie Willie's school.

Jimmie Willie's from the other direction.

Workhouse and Donnison School..jpg
An East End street in the early 30s..jpg

Workhouse and Donnison School.

Warren Street now Warren Court..jpg

An East End street in the early 30s.

Warren Street now Warren Court.

Possibly Silver Street- Golden Alley are

Possibly Silver Street- Golden Alley area of the East End or Hendon, circa 1900.   

Wear Street..jpg
Ayres Quay Bottle works. 30s, love to kn

Ayres Quay Bottle works. 30s, Looks like it  was brought down the way Fred Dibnah did them as there looks like flames at the base. 

Wear street in the East End.jpg

Wear Street.

Wear street in the East End,

Entrance to Stone Yard, Bank Street..jpg

Entrance to Stone Yard, Bank Street.

Wear street in the East End at a later s
Town Moor bandstand and it must be a Mon

Wear street at a later stage.

Town Moor bandstand and it must be a Monday...

Charabanc at the Corner of Hartley stree

An old Charabanc at the Corner of Hartley street and Prospect Row.   

East End Carnival 1912 Hair competition.
Custom house quay 1627 date must be when

Custom house quay 1627 date must be when it was built.

Stone Yard, off High st. East.jpg

Stone Yard, off High st. East

Outside Trafalgar Square..jpg

Outside of Trafalgar Square..

Coronation-Street ..jpg

Coronation Street. .

17 and 18 Moorgate Street..jpg
Earlier view of Moorgate Street..jpg

Earlier view of Moorgate Street.

Ann Street in Hendon..jpg

Ann Street in Hendon.

17 and 18 Moorgate Street.

Church Street in the East End..jpg
Back yard of Hendon Road and South Durha
Bottom of High Street ..jpg

Church Street.

Another view of Covent Garden..jpg

Another view of Covent Garden.

Sunderland Quayside at Pottery Bank, 27

Sunderland Quayside at Pottery Bank, 27 January 1898

Bottom of High Street .

Lodge Terrace and East Hendon Road..jpg

Lodge Terrace and East Hendon Road.

Coronation Street Sussex Street.jpg
Coronation St back lane..jpg
Coronation street, Adelaide place..jpg
Remnants of Church Street in colour..jpg
Demolition of Fenwick's brewery after Hi

Demolition of Fenwick's Brewery after Hitler bombed it.

Remnants of Coronation Street in colour.

Dock scene with the world's first alumin

Dock scene with the world's first aluminium bridge.

East End Lodging House..jpg

East End Lodging House.

Down in the East End 1920's..jpg
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Down in the East End 1920's.

East End, possible Coronation Street are

East End, possibly Coronation Street area.

The lock ups down the East End, next to

The Sunderland Parish Gaol in Coronation Street.

The police lock-up in Coronation Street.
High Street East and Warren Street..jpg
Mainsforth Terrace down the East End..jp

Mainsforth Terrace down the East End.

Old Customs House to the left..jpg

Old Customs House to the left.

Old Customs House, don't know if we're l

Old Customs House, don't know if we're looking at it or out of it tho'  

Along from the Custom's house on Low Qua

Along from the Custom's house on Low Quay.

Mable Terrace and Addison Street.jpg
Moss Lane in Victorian times and another
Another view of Sunderland quayside..jpg

Another view of Sunderland quayside.

Moss Lane in Victorian times and another class colouration.

Back Woodbine Street near where me Mam a
Washday at the Barracks in the East End.

Back Woodbine Street near where me Mam and family lived.               

Washday at the Barracks in the East End.

boddlewellferry2.jpg
Sunderland ferry landing on the south si

Ferry landing on the south side of the river at Bodlewell Lane in 1884.

Demolition ofJack Crawfords house on Pot

Demolition ofJack Crawfords house on Pottery Bank.          

Looking across the river to Monkwearmout

Boddlewell ferry landing. 1883.

Looking across the river over to  

Monkwearmouth from Bodlewell.

Bodlewell Lane Ferry Landing in early 19

Bodlewell Lane Ferry Landing, early 1900.

Bodlewell Lane..jpg
River Wear Watch.jpg

Bodlewell Lane and the quayside..

River Wear Watch on Bodlewell Lane.

Atmospheric photo of old steps down to t
Trinity Place East End..png
Stamps Lane,High Street East..jpg

Atmospheric photo of old steps down to the quayside from High St. East.     

Trinity Place, East End.

Stamps Lane,High Street East.

Silver Street 1953..jpg

Silver street in 1953.

The East End..jpg

The East End. but where?

High Street East. Eagle Building to the
The Garths..png

The Garths.

Clyde Street, East End..jpg

Clyde Street, East End.

Late 19th century photo of Long Bank and

Late 19th century photo of Long Bank and on the left shows a small boat that has been dragged up from the quayside.   

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High Street East. Eagle Building to the extreme right, the Grey Horse pub to the centre. Lot of onlookers in windows on both sides. The archway leads to Fighting Cock Lane.   

Gray road with Hendon Board school.

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Number 15 bus at the Barracks,

Robinson's lane, High street east..jpg

Burliegh street.

Wylam Wharf and some of it still exists.

Robinson's Lane, High Street East.

Wylam Wharf and some of it still exists.
High Street West 1851..jpg

High Street West 1851.

Painting entitled The Valley of Love and
Entrance to the old East end Market..jpg

Entrance to the old East end Market.

Painting entitled The Valley of Love and the Banks of Sorrow, Hendon in the olden days as in Valley Road, Hendon means deer valley .                                         

James William Street ..jpg

James William Street .

Trafalgar Square..jpg

Trafalgar Square and older than London's.

Closer view of Trafalgar Square..jpg
Hendon Valley ..jpg

Hendon Valley  photo.

Trafalgar Square from the outside..jpg
Sunderland's first Library, High Street

Sunderland's first Library, High Street East.

Closer view of Trafalgar Square.

Atta Matta..jpg

Local character Atta Matta.

Trafalgar Square from the outside.

Bodlewell Lane Police Station c. 1950s..

Bodlewell Lane Police Station c. 1950s.

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