Oh wow, the memories! Cheers 🙂👍

Look how much better Sunderland was back then, plus all that nice central easy to get to parking.. Then along came these changes discussed in the video which ruined Sunderland.

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Absolute shame.

I was born off Chester Road, High Barnes side, in 71, when I was little, and a ship launched, you could hear it from there. Sad the country now has sod all industry. No ships, pits, iron and steelworks. With utilties being so high now, we could do with the pits, and the cokeworks, to have town gas again.

Everyone is so smartly dressed. I wish we could return to those days even though it was 11 year before I was born.

Pennywell comp and our badge was ' the Torrens ' Torrens (1875 - 1910) was a clipper designed to carry passengers and cargo between London and Port Adelaide, South Australia. She was the fastest ship to sail on that route, and the last sailing ship on which Joseph Conrad would serve before embarking on his writing career.

from a fellow mackem we did build some bloody good ships

Ex j l thompsons Sunderland shipbuilders north sands yard on the wear mate served my time there

What a fantastic place until the bad planning decimated our town

Has a big effect on me watching this video, as an apprentice Doxy man 1959 to 1966. Hey this whole northeast downgrade with shipbuilding ,don’t take my word look at the admission of most of the family of the shipbuilders, they admitted they were asleep not upgrading equipment and methods of working. The rest is history the North east shipbuilders were taken over by informed Far East clever engineers who just did it faster and just as good. This country let it happen to the decline of its amazing world class clever people, check out Mrs Thatcher involvement with gadansk and the Sunderland involvment . Contradiction in terms there if you look at it. Writing this I may get a knock on the door.......Why oh why does a country like ours let go so many many talents and world class skills. I have lived with ,worked with men and women with so much skill and talent to do above and beyond. I dunno maybe I’m adinosor born in the past it’s a foreign country and we do things different there....

Hello Anthony, We are currently doing a project involving the old Crossley busses. Just wondering how you have sourced the original content from? Kind regards, Liam

Not sure about the tinkly silent era style piano accompaniment, but otherwise great!

We used to get on similar buses to these to go to Silksworth Infants and Junior school. The blue coloured Sunderland and District I think they were. They ran those buses right up until the early 1970s. "Conky buses" we used to call them! :D

Thankyou communism for getting Mrs Thatcher to shut the puts and shipyards

The chimes of The old town hall 2 o clock was he the planning officer in 71 what decided to pull it down for the hotel that never came

The bus going to Ford Estate should have been armoured!

Before many years of safe seat Labour rule destroyed the city of Sunderland.

Nice one Anthony

Sunderland looked better back then than it is today.

Austin Pickersgill is where my Dad worked under the Queen of Alexandria Bridge yard until it closed as did my Grandfather. Miss Seeing these Massive Ships being launched with such Pride!! Mothers Side were all Miners along at Boldon Colliery all my Uncles and Grandfather that side worked there.. GUTTED I Was not able to join in there footsteps! LOOK WHAT YOU DID MAGGIE?!?! All this happened in the couple years before I left school! You left us NOWT Maggie, absolutely F-All?!? No Reasons apart from to line the pockets of the South. Hope you enjoyed it ya Bitter Old Bitch! And they wonder why there’s a North South Divide...

I loved the old green corporation buses before Tyne and Wear PTE. The Economic bus to Whitburn and the Jolly bus to South Hylton. Also the dark blue SDO (Sunderland District Omnibus) all had their unique identity, until deregulation kicked in and the changes ever since. Probably a Thatcher change, so many great things from that woman. (Sarcasm).

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The bus conductors were great them days, i remember the 'open' buses like the seaburn ones, you would run along and jump on when the bus was moving ! the conductors were funny as well, one use to say "i than you" like arthur askey, and i paid one old penny to travel to the town from roker !.

The green & cream livery of Sunderland corporation looked smart and the vehicles themselves looked very well turned out

Getting addicted to these old vids and pics of Wonderland-by-the-sea

enjoy the videos, it sad that like most cities get rid of trams, uk seems to better place ,

Excellent! I love the way you showed the driver changing his display to Football Ground then showed footage of a game at Roker Park. Very well put together despite the annoying piano soundtrack! ha ha

0utmoded working practices and an uncompetetive, clapped out infrastructure post 1945 was fatal for UK shipbuildingThatcher merely accelerated the inevitable thank goodness..

who sang the song? good voice - sounds like Elvis Costello a little

Videos like this show how superior municipally owned public transport was to the privatised shambles of today.

hi this is a long shot but did you serve your time at doxfords as a shipwright

what a sad day we saw our whole heritage die under thatcher, I cried when the last ship went as did most of us x

Rot in hell Thatcher

Why did you use footage of the tyne? Not the Wear? FTM Stronger than thou.

32 apprentices??? .................. thats F..k all for the number of people they employed, I worked for a engineering company down in Rugby and we had over 70 apprentices on our books and we didn't employ a 5th of full time employees that they did. Bit of rose coloured specs I believe. Oh and before anyone has ago, I worked down the pits and went through the strike 30 years ago, but I've moved on

Brings back memories my dad was a conductor on these buses and my great uncle Joe was the driver. My dad was on the buses in the 1960

FUCK THE MAGS AND MAGGIE

A&P and Doxford's were closed because the EU decided they wanted to "reduce shipbuilding capacity in the UK". All the more reason to vote to leave the EU if our masters ever allow us to vote on it.

as i run past the glass centre, you can still see where the launch strip ran into the river...

Excellent!!!!

Lovely film, just caught a glimpse of a tram in the distance, great quality transfer to video

WOW how things have changed, that's brilliant thanks.