....I remember that Vaux 'Smell' when I was a kid...... absolutely honked.
@acquiesce-ol5okАй бұрын
The Townhall was the best building in the town. To demolish it was criminal!
@RebeccaTurner-ny1xxАй бұрын
I suspect that most of the older people in this film would have bemoaned the supposed decline of the city since they were young. And that goes on... so that the best times were perhaps when we were still living in the oceans?
@terencebarrett2897Ай бұрын
Absolutely heartbreaking our town decimated destroyed, a bomb couldn't make much more damage ,,you think plans were made in 1970+ to destroy whole city centre and build houses on the land,and corner by corner they encroaching on city centre, its absolutely sad tearful
@HelenBleakleyАй бұрын
fantastic
@stephenbilton53452 ай бұрын
Ian Porterfield! Why man, nobody like him.
@robertcoleman48613 ай бұрын
Who recorded the music very stirring.👍👍👍👍🦘
@paulinedixon34903 ай бұрын
I’m watching this and I could cry. Seeing the way our once successful thriving city. Or town. As it once was is now. All the businesses Mines. Shipyards. Brewery. Clothing Foundries. Rope works. Galvanisers and so many large department stores Too many to name. All gone. We could see a doctor or dentist whenever we needed to. We had the choice of many cinemas to choose from and two public swimming baths that cost pennies to use. I wish young ones could see what a brilliant place Sunderland was once to live in. We knew all our neighbours and most people on our estate. Now you hardly know who lives next door to you.
@sidirodromeas3 ай бұрын
Excellent video 🙂 I always remember my most beautiful 5 years there (1982-87) as a Civil Engineering student at the Poly. What is the title of the background music please? Thank you!!!
@paulinedixon34904 ай бұрын
The smell from Vaux is something I will never forget. The horses were magnificent though I was always wary of them. All the industries gone forever. So sad. The sculpture is wonderful Even better the fact it was actually made in Sunderland by an extremely talented man. 👍👏👏
@tomwaugh4 ай бұрын
Loved the video and the story behind it. My granda worked there for many years and used to bring his pop allowance home for us kids to enjoy! :) The only thing that bugged me was at 19.38 minutes, the subtitler used "affect" instead of "effect".
@davidsnowdon73284 ай бұрын
Born and Bred Mackem and proud this is God's Country
@AngelaPennock4 ай бұрын
Where have all the people gone 😢
@christopherspinks35404 ай бұрын
Shame it's gone....
@Trev.M.19864 ай бұрын
Remember vaux as a bairn. Awesome sculpture and what a talented man. Hats off 👏🙌
@Trev.M.19864 ай бұрын
Sunderland. The town that once was........
@Trev.M.19864 ай бұрын
Before my time some of it. What a time it must have been to be alive. When sunderland was awesome. Place is ruined now 💯
@damonhall71165 ай бұрын
I have a distinct memory of visiting Vaux on a school trip back in the early 1970s. Walking around the stable area I remember seeing one of the horses names was Silver. It’s one of those memories that has stuck with me. So to see the drayman who looked after him was nice. Also like the mayor said, the smell of the new brew was unmistakable. I have so many great memories of growing up in Sunderland and wouldn’t have swapped them for anything. I moved away in 1984 when I joined the army and have never returned to live, but Sunderland is always my home.
@zeddeka5 ай бұрын
The basic problem Sunderland has is that it's lost its reason to exist. Like so many other cities in the UK.
@tonybreeze85165 ай бұрын
I’ve got a photo of my mam, Emily Browell, dishing out the milk on the back of a horse drawn trap in our village, South Hylton.
@pablolowenstein13716 ай бұрын
Its basically an African colony now, not to mention the hordes of mentally challenged zombies wandering around. I remember when places like sunderland were civilised, homogeneous, industrious, proud communities...everything scum politicians hate.
@warlock19697 ай бұрын
I jumped into Sunderland Airshow back in 1992 with the Red Devils, great times
@hyena13111 ай бұрын
A real life Alan Partridge...
@alanduffell6820 Жыл бұрын
Our city that once had everything, now basically a wasteland. No shops, no seaside fair and no industry to provide local wealth/pride. Live just 20 mile away and have been back once in 15 years. Keeping the memories.
@mervynhardy6161 Жыл бұрын
Great video ruined by the truly lousy background racket. A pity.
@mervynhardy6161 Жыл бұрын
The sculpture is marvelous.
@stewartw.9151 Жыл бұрын
I remember well as a teenager in the mid 1960s, the powerful horses and drays around town, doing regular deliveries to Vaux customers. The sculpture is a wonderful reminder of that. Let us hope also that the redevelopment of Sunderland brings with it, not just pleasant spaces and amenities, but actual prosperity in the form of employment and economic growth to the place where I grew up!
@Mackembri62 Жыл бұрын
Back in the day when Sunderland was a thriving city 😢
@mn4169 Жыл бұрын
many generations of my family were born in Sunderland. I moved away in order to move forward. sad to see all the unused and shoddy buildings.
*GHASTLY!* Who the fvck is the sadist, manoeuvring the matrix, responsible for permitting the existence of such an unassailable shithole throughout the 20th century and into present day?! Anyone who isn't a complete demon-horned sadist would've pulled the plug of this utter, utter shithole and zit on the face of the earth via a fvcking nuke by now.
@davt8615 Жыл бұрын
Hard working town! Grafters man ❤
@KubertCamera Жыл бұрын
Hi dame Dorothy primary school❤!
@HumansAreShitFactories Жыл бұрын
Bit of a dump.
@darrensmith4279 Жыл бұрын
Geoff like the toon
@HumansAreShitFactories Жыл бұрын
@@darrensmith4279 What’s the toon?
@darrensmith4279 Жыл бұрын
@@HumansAreShitFactories toon is newcastle
@HumansAreShitFactories Жыл бұрын
@@darrensmith4279 Yes both Sunderland and Newcastle are grotty little dumps that are full of northerners. 😩
@darrensmith4279 Жыл бұрын
@@HumansAreShitFactories lmao
@tusdon3645 Жыл бұрын
ไวไวนะ
@rGxDale Жыл бұрын
Hahah did the videographer just learn a new adjective
@molliefolwell40162 жыл бұрын
Whoaaa
@grjackazz97022 жыл бұрын
BRING IT BACK VOTE LABOUR OUT
@ashleighadele22692 жыл бұрын
Can you be next to the lights for pics or are they barriers?
@MrWhale11112 жыл бұрын
Elvedin love you brate this is someone you know that lives in the 🇺🇸 USA . I just found this video and wanted to tell you I love you and miss you brate hope everyone is doing well. Hopefully you write back so we can get in contact with each other.
@Aj-dq6fe2 жыл бұрын
Was expecting a little more than a series of four word introductions