Just for something a bit different. Let's have your pictures and stories from days gone by. please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
No, it was a coal transporter from the Pit. I used to fish across the river when I was a nipper. If a 6oz weight ever "accidentally" hit the hull, there would be a very angry Dutchman on the deck swearing at us in his native tongue!!
please log in to view this image please log in to view this image I also have a scan somewhere of the Sandalwood being built which is not too dissimilar to this; please log in to view this image I can't make out the name on that ship.
A great history of ship-building flushed down the pan by national politics! History now repeats itself and the same thing is happening to Portsmouth! Gotta feel for them - even though they are southerners!
Fantastic images. Being under 30 im too young to really know the proud ship building heritage. When it was all closed here what happened to the trade was it located somewhere else?
I'm not from Sunderland. In the pit villages of Durham, for a daft kid in the 1950's, shipbuilding and a big town like Sunderland may as well have been the Moon. I never gave a thought about it until I was old enough to start going to games in the late 1960's. The incredible stories I'd been told about the shipyards were all ruined when I first saw the river and the obvious decline, your wonderful photos bring back those first memories. I have to say I was a bit choked looking at them and wondering what might have been. It says something about the spirit of Sunderland people that the football club still gets such great support after the way the town was hung out to dry.
Very good pics Comm. Whats the name of that battle cruiser the Vaux horses are outside of and where is/was it?
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Sterling work Mr Effect.. Anyone gotta picture of the crowtree ice rink? ****ing hate ice skates, after going there.
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I want a pic of villa pop deliveries, pop delivered to your house.. Also did there used to be a pub called the Bierkeller? having a mind blank of where it was.
We used to have rival delivery companies, NYDS & SYDS, who would compete for business in the village. I remember many a fist fight between the drivers during which we'd form a circle around them and cheer on our favourites while the men would place bets on the winner. The victor would have his pick of the village girls and the kids would raid his cart while he had his way with her. Or is my senility further advanced than I realise
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