Thank you for the pics Wasnt Sunderland a beautiful town , when it was doing what it was built for , industry and manufacturing! , I remember the 70's ,i was a teenager , and loved the town ,

Brought up in south Hylton,left for pastures new 30+ years ago,loved the oval and the terrace R.I.P Charlie Derby and Wilf and Gerry from the Oaks.

The ferry boatman worked 14 hour shifts !

EVER SUNDERLAND ❤️

Does everyone prefer this Ed compared to the early days just on stage with a guitar & a beat box? 🤔

Beautiful music and soul.

Awesome that guy in everyway-sexy aw yeah!!

Just brilliant views of my hometown, thanks.

Are we related Tony

What is the song

Looks better then than does know

Breathtaking. X

Thanks for the Memories .

so nice

Where is the level crossing at 06.00 ? Edit* Did some quick detective work and it is Caroline Street in Hetton-Le-Hole. The shop on the right is now the " £ Discount Store £ ". The pub ahead is now a butchers.

Well the river is certainly pretty to look at these days, but I also remember seeing it as a lad of about 11 years old! This must have been about 1957 or so. My Dad bought a small sailing boat with a Seagull 2 hp outboard motor and we took a trip upriver from the Roker Yacht Club one day as far as the main Wear Bridge and back. What lives in my memory as a kid was the huge ships moored along both sides of the river for loading, unloading and maintenance work. I would guess today they were not as huge as they seemed to this kid back then, but coastal craft for carrying mainly coal, Sunderland's great export to the south. On the left - the northern side - as we travelled up river the banks from the waterfront to the very top, were full of small workshops and marine supply houses, from which services and supplies to ships were provided. It was like looking at Dante's Inferno, a hive of frantic activity, all pressed close into limited space on the steep banks. On the right cranes were busy, trucks bringing and taking away cargoes, again a hive of activity. Yes it was seemingly chaotic and dirty and modern 'elf and safety would not tolerate it today! Yet this was a major part of Sunderland's long-lost economic viability at that time and for 150 and more years preceeding! A very different scene from what we see today!

Deja vu all over again! I still think of Sunderland as my home town, even though I left it and England in 1975 for South Africa. It was a grand little town before that but it seems to me it's star has waned dramatically in more recent times!

I grew up in Ford Crescent. My recollection is that the ferryman was called Charlie Derby. My dad grew up in a riverside house next to the corner of the golf course (the house is now non-existant) and tells of his one-eyed dad stumbling back drunkenly from the Golden Lion pub with his dog on his right knee to stop him falling into the river. I longed to leave home to see the outside world and now, in my last years, I sit in Nottingham and really miss the village.

I am now living in Nottingham but loved your photos, especially of the ferry at South Hylton (where I came from) and the change of the images from black and white to colour did bring the photos to life. Many, many thanks.

When did the ferry crossings stop? I used to live north of the river and played near the crossing point (in the sixties).

You don't realise how much you miss your home village until you look back fifty years later ... Now living in Nottinghamshire ... Tony Breeze

Wonderful, thank you

Great to see this video I was brought up in South Hylton

Awesome vid

Good stuff but dates and locations would.ve been nice , struggled to recognise a lot of those places . Minor gripe .

Some real historical pics thanks for the upload

Great set of pics, I didn't recognise a lot of the streets, how the town has changed! I will watch it again but this time with the sound off. Thanks for posting.

I cannot remember how many times i,ve swam in the river at south hylton, great times..

A great look back at the past of my home town. Thanks for posting.

Wowwww! So moving... X

music is perfect love it ❤❤

Thank you so much TEMARU really magic! I too was born in Hendon a long time ago.

Thanks for this TEMARU ... I haven't seen the place for years . but I was born a Hendon lad (in 1952) and I'm a Hendon lad still !

I'm from Malaysia an I lived there for a year. Stay at Roker Avenue. Always go fishing at the pier and light house. There is military airforce show during summer. Such a good place to stay. Nice environment, friendly people. Nice place to enjoy the sea view while finishing your study. Much more better than London which is too crowded. Plan to continue my master there again next year. Miss connect bus from UoS. David Goldman library, Murray Library, The Precinct, and Bridges :).

This is so brilliant and inspiring !!

Great video, truly inspiring...

good video

I think you mean the concrete boat in the river at Claxheugh. The Cretehawser is a tug of concrete construction and was built just after World War I in 1919. At the close of the First World War the shortage of steel led the government to order the construction of concrete ships. Google 'Cretehawser' and you will find more information.

Do you know anything about that big rusted ship at 50seconds by the Shipwright pub? I just discovered it the other day and it is gorgeous!!

Took loads of clips and compiled this video from them. Some footage was full songs, some snapshots.

ahh great.

Got to add that the music you've added took me on a real time-warp back to 1977!! :-)