No Sunderland Flagship Shops Left After Marks & Spencer’s Closed.

[@jammiesafc449]

Such a shame all the developments going on around the areas of the town and no shops to provide people with stuff they need but suppose its sign of the times all over country town centres are like this

[@briggsahoy1]

M&S. Bailed out of Canada many years ago, we shopped there frequently, expat Geordie, Canada.

[@wideawake4413]

And stop with the takeaways, too. Dash Uber eats, etc. Start cooking from fresh. We've become far too lazy, in my opinion. Enough is enough!

[@Madsoutandabout]

Very true mate thanks

[@paulferri3441]

It's so sad,piece by piece the high Street is dying,not just sunderland but right throughout the country, I remember Sunderland in the sixties and seventies and it was thriving, shops,restaurants and bars always busy,the shipyards closed,the pits the port and many other industries and works,do sad but on a positive note,another class video lads😅

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate spot on

[@judithnoble7834]

That was the abc, not the odeon. Odeon was further down towards Turveys garage.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate

[@gagzgallaghermusic]

So sad to see these declining high streets. Just like everywhere else I'm afraid, it's a case of use it or loose it. Keno hit the nail on the head on this one.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Yeah spot on Keano cheers

[@RLukeDavis]

I think the dark ages is the historic bit you're missing, the point at which shared language was enabling us to reliably record history. Thanks for the look around Sunderland ❤️

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate

[@bernadettemurray8260]

Somerfield food was sold in Food Giant which was situated where the new Sunderland College is, opposite Park Lane bus station, prior to that it was called Gateway l believe, before that Fine Fare.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate

[@CinemaMusic55]

You went to the Odeon, which closed in 1982, to watch "Back To The Future" in 1985......Laughed me head off at that, Terry. Great film as usual. Just enjoyed your Barnard Castle one from a few years back.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate thanks oops 😂😂

[@susanbeaumont6063]

"Kind of get down here"! Are you trying to kill off Keno! Poor Keno. Pray to Saint Peter to keep you safe. Thank you both for the interesting walk.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers Susan

[@Rafiqali75]

It’s a shame for all these shops shutting down. It’s like a ghost town in Sunderland now the top end of Sunderland looks nice with loads of people going online now but it’s a shame people losing their jobs all these top shops going for sad that many shops in Sunderland now, that’s why people comes to Newcastle. I want to see people going into Sunderland and giving money not giving our money to Newcastle. I wanted to be stayed in Sunderland the money everyone is going online now and it’s very sad to see these big shops gone.

[@DHall-xz7ke]

The little shops too. Lockdown took them out.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate

[@krisjohnson4224]

Sorry like but Sunderland is far from a "Ghost town" the whole area round The Empire and Keel Square is buzzing most nights now due to the shows on at The Empire and The Firestation.

[@kevinstevens8910]

Who remember the 2 job lot stores in Sunderland Blandford street and the other one at holmside .

[@TimboTravels]

Good video but shame you didn’t show Keel Square with all the nice new bars.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Really 🤔 sounds good mate next time

[@TimboTravels]

@@Madsoutandabout cheers mate yeah Botanist, Keel Tavern, Holiday Inn & Fire Station all in that area looks great 🙂

[@viv73903]

It's a shame. I have gone in M&S when I have come up for the football and forgotten to pack something. A loss to Sunderland town centre.

[@themanftheworld8439]

It's a city centre.

[@jenniferandrews2212]

Sad day M&S closing loved my toasties in café there and the food hall was always busy you're right Keano about the online shopping

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers Jennifer

[@dgod62]

nice one boys, 👍 keep them coming please.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Thanks! Will do!

[@alanhopper]

You can get down the steps on the town Bridge the wharf is now flats

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate

[@fatboyjim3812]

The Cinema was the ABC .......The Odeon is futher down Holmside and is now the Top Rank bingo

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate

[@RobertSAFC2009]

I didn’t realise more M&S are shutting. In Hexham M&S is shutting (2 days til the shop closed)

[@Madsoutandabout]

Crazy mate

[@briggsahoy1]

Bloody hell, what next, who could have predicted this back in my day. Joplins, Binns, Dogarts, Binns, Cook Travel agency, and now M&S. Is British Home Stores still around ? Best regards and God bless, expat Geordie, Canada.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate

[@briggsahoy1]

I think St. Peter’s Church is in Monkwearmouth ? Expat Geordie , Csnada.

[@paulcreer5112]

Hi Terry lovingly your videos mate was wondering if you do a videos in stanhope County Durham it a great village with a lot of shops some guft shops places to eat and good walks there one down by a river and one around a query it a great place for a day out and a hiden gem in the North East not many people know about stanhope and how great it is to visit for the day or even a holiday keep the videos going your doing great

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate thanks will have a look

[@tonypaddler]

The pub over the river is the Boars Head.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate

[@Leehow80]

Great video. Thanks ! Ive not lived in the area for the last 26 years .sad to see the decline of sunderlands high street. Although washington will benefit. Keano is a joker.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Class mate Keano

[@urbanprojectz]

Things will close down due to online shopping, things need to change now.

[@Madsoutandabout]

True mate

[@bernadettemurray8260]

The Odeon became Top Rank bingo further down. You're looking at what was ABC Cinema.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate that makes sense

[@garyrobson2924]

Terry it was the cannon shut in late 90s early 200s

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate

[@michaeldixon8214]

Retail parks on the edges of city centres with free parking and cheaper rents also part of the high streets demise. Should do a video of the new keel square with the new bars and then walk around to the fire station great music venue.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers will have a look mate

[@samuel96100]

Great video as usual daft lads 😂 Youve got good ears to see it from here! lol 👍

[@Madsoutandabout]

😂😂😂😂

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate

[@samuel96100]

@@Madsoutandabout 😂👍

[@psmith77271]

Sunderland council wont be bothered about marks going to washington, they will still get the business rates/council tax etc from them

[@Madsoutandabout]

Shocking mate

[@DHall-xz7ke]

True

[@thisperson5294]

I am disabled and I can't get to the town centre unless I use a taxi which is expensive. People in crowds show zero respect for disable to people. You need to wake up to that.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Very true well said they do mate

[@cypresscentersecurity1412]

The last time he rode a skateboard they had steel wheels! Also, don't look for a church made before steeples! Shame about your economy, we have similar happenings here in America. It is bad when the only bar you have left is a Pour House (LOL). (Is it really true that things can be bought on the interweb, I wouldn't know as I have never tried!) Keep buying local, guys. Thanks from the States of confusion!

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate 😂😂

[@CMSG1979]

My Marks n sparks shut 4 years ago

[@Madsoutandabout]

Same here ish mate

[@CMSG1979]

No was 6 years ago april 21st 2018

[@bernadettemurray8260]

M&S was my mams favourite.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Loads loved it mate sad times

Massive knickers......

[@Tdance1964]

M&S offer on line shopping so the choice falls with the customers

[@Madsoutandabout]

True thanks

[@delmonti]

....yup, ABC Cinema

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate

[@DHall-xz7ke]

Great video lads, great message about our dying highstreets because of convenience. A jail cell is convenient as well, bed, bog and food tray all in one little room. Sunderland city is being converted to a 'Smart City'. Not tidy smart but digital smart. Cameras and sensors talking to the smart phone in your pocket whether you like it or not. Highstreet shops knocked down or converted into residential. Smart cities, digital currency, smart devices, smart wearables all feeding their smart computers about us. The UN call it 'sustainable development'. The WEF call it Technocracy, just like the prison cities of China. KLD is onboard with all this stuff, his mam goes to Davos every year. Soon cities will be no fun at all especially if you live in a Smart city.

[@Madsoutandabout]

Cheers mate

[@zulfqarali905]

Hi what a shame marks and Spencer closing 😠 Ali Walsall west midlands england junction 10 m6 Walsall churckery up the walsall west midlands england junction 10 m6 Walsall churckery

[@Madsoutandabout]

It is mate thanks

[@Dangerous_Brian]

On a positive note - we all need a Greggs pasty before we get our nails done before heading to a betting shop and winning 50k to put through the money laundering services of the Turkish barbers 🙈🙉🙊

[@Madsoutandabout]

😂😂😂😂

[@arealmandingo]

why yer some tony hawk

[@Madsoutandabout]

😂😂😂

[@geoff2671]

Keanos had too many bangs to the head as a jockey !

[@Madsoutandabout]

😂😂😂

[@Paggerd]

Times change and people’s habits change. Either embrace the changes and adapt or visit this dinosaur’s graveyard and feel sorry for the demise of the past.

[@johngreen6191]

Walk for miles, can't find what you want, go home with nowt. No I don't think so.

[@Madsoutandabout]

😂😂😂😂

[@CMSG1979]

You would get 250 if he fell off the skateboard 🛹😂

[@Madsoutandabout]

😂😂😂

They were never going to stay in a place like that......

[@lesleyrobertson5465]

Stop voting Tory and Brexit ya Bams

[@DHall-xz7ke]

They are all the same.

[@malcolmdonnison3987]

More like stop voting for dinosaur labour 😡😡😡