


Bainbridge Holme.
Leechmere House.

The Ettrick family mansion, site of the little sister's of the poor.



An old house but where.


Plough Cottage, Tunstall Road, c1904.

Grindon Close owned by the Short family, became Grindon library then was pulled down for an old folk's home.

Southwick House in colour.
Once St. Peter's Vicarage- North. Bridge Street and still there.


A leafy Thornhill Towers.


Low Barnes Farm.

Hylton Castle where you can find the earliest example U.S.A. flag in the Washington family's arms carved on the wall.


Thornhill House. Sir James Laing's old house.

Bede Tower on Ryhope Road.

Pemberton Hall and legend has it that the old cellars were used for the two bowling greens at the bottom end of Barne's Park.

Coach house for Pemberton Hall at Barnes Park.

Havelock Tower, Hylton Road.

Holly House on Hylton Road .

Pallion Hall.



Pottery buildings, down near to the bottom of High Street.

Tower House, South Hylton.
Not a house, the Main gate of Doxford's '47, recently pulled down

The lodge of Silksworth Hall..

Ashburne House, 1916, still there.

The Old Manor House that stood in the heart of Grindon, this was originally the home of the Vaux Family..

Rear view of Grindon Hall.

Demolition of Grindon Old Hall in 1964,


The Victoria Hall Sunderland. With extra housing.

Victoria hall from another angle.

Hylton Road School.

Biddick Hall - Seat of the Lambton Family.

Joseph Cook's Home - North Biddick Hall.
Thorney Close House.


Peareth Hall with staff.

Haggis Hall was not a prestigious residence and In 1881 it housed the family of Joseph Appleby, a local coal miner.


Usworth House also known as Peareth Hall .

A derelict Herrington Hall in 1957.
Usworth Hall.

Washington Old Hall,


A before and after view of Cherry Knowle Asylum.

Low Usworth Manor.

Building Ryhope Pumping Station.


Houghton Rectory,

Penshaw Monument at night, much better than the new lights.


Quayside Exchange was the 1st Town Hall rear view.
Quayside Exchange on High Street from the fromt.



Doxford House formally Silksworth House.
Silksworth Hall .

Herrington Hall while still in good condition.




Silksworth Hall, another view.

Sunderland House, Green Terrace.

Doxford house doorway.

What's left of Albion House.

Doxford house, close up of the door.