I was born and bred in Seaburn. The New Derby is a canny boozer Billy and I have family all around there. You have such a diversity of housing prices within such a small area. Terraced houses for under £100k through to a converted church for £500k within a few hundred yards. The area is finding its feet and improving slowly, losing the football ground robbed the area of its identity, some businesses never recovered (Sweet shop opposite the Roker end on Roker Baths Rd whilst the legendary Roker Pie Shop is there struggles, the bookies on the same road has gone too. However, you really have it all on your door step, pubs open with real ales, good food and live music open till all hours, excellent restaurants abound, Metro station nearby, Tesco, Lidl, a great butchers on Roker Avenue (Hendersons - the owner is true supporter), good schools, Roker Park, the twin resorts of Roker an Seaburn with fabulous beaches. Add in that one of the clubs greatest benefactors in recent years was born in Brandling Street - one Alf Wight (aka James Herriott) and Dolly Field one of the clubs earlier football grounds is on Givens Street (house has a blue plaque on the wall) - it really is God's own country. I love the North of Sunderland but appreciate the South side too - but neither surpasses my love for the city, its history, its character, it's closeness to the dales of Yorkshire & Durham, the lakes, the borders and Scotland.
Yes and I am coming to the game in a few weeks It wasn't a particular insult to Sunderland, it's just one of those places you generally dont visit, same can be said for hull and many towns id suspect
I have a feeling you and myself may well know each other, Pecs, i know where he comes from.... Spanish ****.
My mate lives a stones throw from the Derby & her street is so quiet, I love it round there. There must be 8 or 9 pubs within walking distance from her house. Derby, Albion, Wolsey, Harbour View, Roker Hotel, Fort, Howard Arms, Wheatsheaf, Col Tav & that one at the top of Fullwell Rd I can never remember the name of. Is it The Centurion?
Are you talking about the Blue Bell? Or the one that was at the other end, where they put the ****ing bus lane in?
No it's just up the road from that antiques shop, deffo begins with a C. If you're going along Roker Avenue & turn left at the Lidl store & head towards Fulwell Rd. It's just on the right hand side.
**** me, that's took some time, and na it was always a ****hole, how it survived this long, **** knows.
I thought they'd knocked it down like? I come into Seaburn from the other side of course so I could be wrong.
This is a difficult one for me - I was born in Chester Le Street and have lived the last 22 years of my life in Pity Me/Fram - All on the North Side of the River Wear but I still have to cross the Monkwearmoth Bridge to get to the SOL - guess this is due to the shape of that beautiful, snaking river of ours.
They have built flats behind it, but the pub's still there Only been in once and it was ok - though not with you Billy. You been hallucinating again?
