Can anyone remember a pie shop on Davison terrace southwick???

Ahhh the railway inn down the village(south hylton) or the top house as it was known,the snake pit in the basement,brilliant times,had me first pint of whitbread scotch in there,me first pint anywhere...good times.

My mum got her first job at Benefits.

Thanks for the memories!

At the start is Arrowsmiths who were in Blandford St. I was friends with Al Fletcher who's aunt I think owned the store. He worked there, we were drinking buddies back in the day many moons ago!

My paternal grandad was from Sunderland, he was born in 1879, I never met him but it's nice to think he may have had one of these pubs as his local. He may have been in one of the photos, who knows?

great memories

Some great nights in the upstairs Folk Club of the George & Dragon where Longdancer, Nic Jones and many others performed.

Thank you. My grandmother lived with her parents in Fulwell in 1911 and did not move too far when she married in 1916. Lovely to see these photos.

Love it

That looks very much like Bishopwearmouth cemetery between Chester and Hylton Roads as Sunderland cemetery is in Grangetown. As a former 'employee' of Thos. Downey Undertakers I know my cemeteries in Sunderland.

Oh dear, what happened to my Sunderland in County Durham? The biggest ship-building town in the world, The electric lightbulb (Joseph Swan NOT Thomas Eddison) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Swan, The first successful hand grenade by William Mills (the Mills Bomb) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_bomb, The longest single span railway bridge in the world at the time (Monkwearmouth Railway Bridge - Thomas Elliot Harrison - lived in Whitburn) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Elliot_Harrison, The most successful of the pre-grouping railways, the NER (Thomas Elliot Harrison), And many other great innovations. The Town Planners should be hung drawn and quartered for what they did to my home town by allowing the demolition of a magnifcent heritage and turning it into a crock from t he 1960s onwards! TRAGIC.

Small pubs in HYLTON road

What wonderful photo's takes me back my childhood and my early drinking days. More more more.

I did not notice any ugly boarded up shops! Nowadays, that is all i seem to see!

The good old days the old 29 was the best 🐕♥️👍

Great photos thank you

Canny auld Sun'land the wonderland by the sea. Thanks

and then the tramps and smackies took over

Would love to see a side by side of now vs then

Thankyou, great video.

really enjoyed looking back at these pictures thanks xxxxx

To be fair, I live here and they still look the same.

Didn't see the well known Blue House on corporation Road.

The sun cow, butchers arms and Grange hotel still stand to this day

micknmeandi22. I have some old photos you might be interested in, of my grandfather standing outside his shop on Sea Rd/ Dent St. Dated after 1903. I enjoyed the photos you showed, especially those of the infant school I used to attend.

If this comment gets enough likes I recreate all of them photos exactly were they are

from sunderland myself love to see the pics from old sunderland amazing video m8 keep them coming really enjoyed it m8 and your other old sunderland stuff

Some nice memories, shame it has changed so much

To go to the town then was an adventure, trips to the Arcade, Josephs, Blacketts and Joplings. Me and my mates would get the bus from Hylton Castle,1d, and knock around the town all day. These days I'm glad to get out of it, such a shame. Great video, thanks.

Great pictures love you xxxx

Fabulous memories of a once great town. Thank you.

Marsden Grotto, Cleadon Village and Whitburn aren't part of Fulwell and Cleadon isn't even in the Sunderland borough. It's part of South Tyneside. Good apart from those oversights though.

I was born in Sunderland, I always thought it depressing even as a kid, the dull building's, the cutting cold, even the snow dried up into little clumps of dirty ice , it all is just depressing. The pathetic shops, the weak panic stricken people , the for-ever worried look on tired womens faces, negative men blaming everyone for the lack of employment. Awful place , awful. Never visit this place unless you really feel like suicide, I left over 45 years ago, been back the odd time , nothing has changed, still the same dull negative place.

turnbull Think what is described as Ryhope Rd is Tunstall Rd

Love this l, thankyou

Swannies!!!

Fantastic upload , shame it's all gone now all those small to medium size family owned run stores which had real character and diversity replaced with a few big samey chain stores these days and endless charity shops /bookies/kebab and pizza and burger shops and the like ...we really have lost something on the high street in todays world ..pity

The Chesters when you didn't have to pay to park and a pint wasnt nearly 4 quid

I really enjoyed this trip down memory lane, and remember a lot of the places. However, it would have been nicer if there were captions to say which streets some of these buildings were on.

So full of life then most of the great architect has gone loved it then it was great thanks for posting these gems I'm a Sunderland lad born and bred.....people had pride in their shops always immaculate.....

Grate thank-you

Thank you for posting. Great to see so many great shops but sad to note that Sunderland has now become the spiritual home of pasties and £ shops.

Excellent thank you!

what is the sound track does anybody know thanks

love the charabang bet it was a bumpy journey on cobbles. .....

Excellent video thank you! I remember Blacketts as a child. All that sticks in my mind is an amazing old fashioned iron lift and money shooting up and down tubes.

brilliant. I bet and promise people were more happier then ,when you think we now have no industry's or every kind of job of employment you can think of and name .and these extra political correctness health+ safety,etc etc ,, why man people these days couldn't cope with living ,scrimping and surviving in those days,now big brother is everywhere ''even your own neighbour

can you name the song and singer for me please, i have fond memories of this place having had a relationship with a beautiful but unattainable lady who lived not far away from here, i never saw it illuminated or any events that i know go on here, and it was nice to see the bandstand in its heyday with its audience

adelaide was in hendon on the way to hendon docks