Secret Wearmouth Bridge Toilets AND Mackie's Corner! Sunderland City Centre Historic Tour

Let’s discover some of the history within Sunderland’s city centre!
I’m from the North side of Sunderland so let’s walk over the Wearmouth Bridge; an iconic bridge that has been built upon three times over it’s history!
Thank you so much for all the love on my previous Sunderland history tour, it really means the world that you like my KZbin videos! Please let me know where you'd like me to go next :)
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Newspaper articles and adverts were found through my Find My Past subscription and old photographs are from the Sunderland Antiquarian Society.
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[@user-it6py5py6b]

Well done all the kitkeyfamilky for reinventing and keeping mine and your passion for our town

[@btomlin752]

I can clearly remember the tunnel linking the two sides of Binns as a kid!! Totally forgot about it until you mentioned it..thanks for the memories 👍

[@northeastnostalgic5071]

I'm so pleased you liked this video! I wonder if the tunnel is still there!

[@Poppins-ut3bs]

Absolutely brilliant, great history facts. Beautiful Architecture x

[@northeastnostalgic5071]

Thank you!😊 I'm pleased you enjoyed my video!

[@DavesGarden1714]

Exellent videos and the lady narrating certainly knows her history about Sunderland

[@northeastnostalgic5071]

Oh thank you! I do try to know my stuff! 😁

[@danieljohnson1924]

So happy to see the Lazer Quest sign is still up on the building opposite Mackie's Corner ha ha!

[@mn4169]

worded at Binns in the early 80s. My first job.

[@michaelmontcombroux3413]

Although not from Sunderland I spent a few years there as a young lad, starting in 1948, when my father took an engineering job there. The day we arrived, the family ate at Meng's Restaurant on Fawcett Street. I seem to remember it as being quite posh. That adjective did not extend to the rest of the town, which was a grubby yet vibrant place. There was a bustle about it, which seems absent judging by today's video. Thank you for your effort to bring Sunderland's rich history alive. Love your accent.

[@northeastnostalgic5071]

Thank you so much for your lovely comment!😊 I can imagine Meng's being so exotic especially in the 40s when things were a bit bland post war. My video is very quiet and unbustling because I had filmed it on a Sunday at 6am - so its definitely a bit more busy during a normal time in the day! 😂

[@michaelmontcombroux3413]

@@northeastnostalgic5071 Six on a Sunday morning explains the shuttered businesses and lack of pedestrians and traffic in the video. Forgive my hasty remark. Yes, the postwar period was bland, though I would describe it as grey and grim ;-). There were a few memorable things that are probabl;y not around anymore, like the man who sold small roasted potatoes from a handcart in Bedford Street outside the Empire cinema. A few pence would buy you coneful made from a page of the Sunderland Echo. The Vaux Brewery dreys drawn by teams of four magnificent horses, and the small and ancient steam passenger ferry down by the docks that would take you across the river for a fee of 2d. Please continue with your video making.

[@anthonydavey5126]

Another great and informative video, well done. I would love to see a video of Sunderland's old shops 😊👍

[@northeastnostalgic5071]

Thank you! 😊 I'll definitely do a video on the old shops of Sunderland!

[@billygraham5971]

Great To see the town again, Super duper 😀

[@northeastnostalgic5071]

It's changed quite a lot but also it hasn't at the same time 😅

[@TheTonk44]

Like most places, it seems the centre of Sunderland has been ruined. I loved these old photos of Fawcett St and Southwick. I'm a Hartlepool lad but I enjoy architecture and I would have loved to take a walk around these streets in 1910. We've lost so much 😕

[@seanmc1351]

Another great video. My grandfather used to work at luxdon laundry in fulwell, when it used to be horse and carts, i have since lost it, but when the went motorised i had the vehical hanbook for one of the first vans, it was hand signed by him, when taking over the van in i beleive it was 1932.

[@northeastnostalgic5071]

Oh wow!😁😁

[@alanmarsh4557]

Very interesting can remember. Town Hall definitely a touchy subject lol

[@northeastnostalgic5071]

Yes it's definitely a sore subject to many still 😅

[@kevelliott]

4:59 and that's a 1972 Triumph 1500, if I'm not mistaken!

[@whotunes]

Excellent video and history lesson , 👏👏

[@northeastnostalgic5071]

Thank you - I'm pleased you liked this video!😊

[@Mackembri62]

As a child my mam walked over the bridge and on the corner there was a small hut where a man sold cigarettes and sweets long time gone now does anyone else remember it and also a section of elefant hide which would find its way around the city centre carried I suspect by drunken mackems

[@jaseh4381]

Very interesting 👍, I remember the binns tunnel. Rhyope village has a lot of history 😉

[@northeastnostalgic5071]

Thank you! 😄 Ryhope does have a lot of history! I created quite a few Tiktok videos around the ghost of the village green and the old railway bridge, as well as working with Ryhope author Glenda Young; so there'll be some Ryhope videos on KZbin soon!

[@DavidRobinson-rj2sp]

GREAT STUFF. The railway bridge was designed by Thomas Elliot Harrison. Founder of the North Eastern Railway (NER), lived on Front Street, Whitburn (his house has a blue plaque), he is buried in Whitburn Cemetery. He also engineered the Victoria Bridge, now known as the Victoria Viaduct, at Fatfield. Designed and built the Goole swing railway bridge, engineered York railway station, high level bridge at Newcastle with Robert Stephenson - Robert Stephenson designed it and Thomas Elliot Harrison did the detailed design work. There you go - a bit of Sunderland railway history. Oh, and this very early movie footage is interesting as the first one minute 15 seconds is the original Wearmouth Bridge and Thomas Elliot Harrison's unique NER Monkwearmouth railway bridge as the backdrop is unmistakable - enjoy: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqW1moCJaJl-rrM

[@robchissy]

the toilets on the bridge closed in the 1980s i think, i do remember when i was a kid they were open

[@northeastnostalgic5071]

I would love to have a look at them as grim as that sounds 😅 I found the old image on an Urban Explorer page and they look so preserved!

[@robchissy]

@@northeastnostalgic5071 they were in a bad state when they were open, i wouldn't be surprised if there was a 40 year old turd in there

[@SuperDanielreed]

Love the history can you do a video on the shops in Sunderland and also Houghton or Shiney row.

[@northeastnostalgic5071]

Of course I can!😊 I don't really know the Houghton or Shiney Row areas but it'll definitely be interesting to research!

[@ianainsley7174]

Try Castletown...

[@warxpwarxp4760]

The people of Sunderland fought with the Scott’s against the royalists during the civil war against the monarchy and the geordies in the battle of Boldon hill

[@simonrawle7885]

funny i was thinking about the nettys on the bridge today

[@northeastnostalgic5071]

They're one of my favourite facts of Sunderland 😁

[@simonrawle7885]

@@northeastnostalgic5071 wot about the jopplings clock . was an iconic noise in the town

[@leedstown]

It's lost most of its character it reminds me of Bradford centre