Sunderland on Film

[@paulinedixon3490]

I’m watching this and I could cry. Seeing the way our once successful thriving city. Or town. As it once was is now. All the businesses Mines. Shipyards. Brewery. Clothing Foundries. Rope works. Galvanisers and so many large department stores Too many to name. All gone. We could see a doctor or dentist whenever we needed to. We had the choice of many cinemas to choose from and two public swimming baths that cost pennies to use. I wish young ones could see what a brilliant place Sunderland was once to live in. We knew all our neighbours and most people on our estate. Now you hardly know who lives next door to you.

[@williamuhren5639]

I was born in Sunderland, lived there for 30 + years, returned for a visit in 2008, very disappointed, they have destroyed the town centre, utter vanderlisim , especially the main town centre Street.

[@Paul-kj4my]

Great Video. This is the only City I've seen that has gone back on itself... we were once a thriving Town but now we have nothing here... it's such a shame what we have now became. The leadership (Labour Council) of Sunderland has been disgraceful in how it's mismanaged our once great City. Too much corruption and backhanders...

[@losc1659]

Conservatives are just as bad

[@themanftheworld8439]

@@losc1659 no they are not.The Labour estabkishnent council are way way way ahead.Its a mafia.

[@calumh8528]

Vote conservative they will get shit done in sunderland

[@themanftheworld8439]

@@calumh8528 much more than Labout and I'm no conservative.

[@TinyDancerO]

I was born in Sunderland - As a little kid, I thought the place was magical. Santa's Grotto inside of Joplings department store was wonderful. Our Summer days were filled with donkey rides at Seaburn beach, followed by sand gritted bags of chips, and then off to the fairground, across the street. As a teen, we spent what money we earned shopping at some of the best stores in the NE. We left the UK many, years ago, thankfully. We have travelled back to England over the years but stopped travelling to Sunderland about 10 years ago. We were shocked and saddened by what has become of the place. Politicians are partially to blame, but also the lack of respect many of its citizens have for their town has also contributed to its demise. Why do residents continue to support Labor ridings, year after year? Residents won't make a change, therefore, the once lovely town/city will continue to remain in its current state of being the forgotten city. Very sad indeed.

[@michaelloughlin7108]

just how I remember Sunderland this film is a real treasure....

[@kinglions9731]

Every history they knock down they build houses

[@michaelloughlin7108]

King Lions so true and so destructive their was some beautiful building's which have now been lost forever. ....

[@kensloanes7708]

still watching this in 2017 the music and video is mint and class in sunderland back than as today wonderful film

[@barryspencer2681]

Great Memories. We still have a lot to be proud of. Rode on the model train, had a Nissan bluebird. My brother worked at Vaux breweries, Still live at Roker & played on the Nissan football pitches.

[@mackemmedia5452]

Say what you like about our city, this video shows just how important and iconic it is to us.

[@sofiatzoumerkioti6034]

I am from Athens Greece. I came to Sunderland to study back in 1996. I still live in Sunderland. Best people, best city. I love Sunderland to bits

[@nothere7300]

Lived there 1986 to 1989 when at the Poly. Great people in Sunderland, love it and miss it.

[@Keithbarber]

@@nothere7300 every city and town needs to record its heritage and history, from Sunderland to Southampton Newcastle to newquay And that's from a londoner

[@joanoconnor9799]

Was ?

[@scottsoencer-rowell8090]

Brings back memories for my old man love the place miss it alot

[@geoffreyjonathanwilson5826]

Am proud to be a mackem.Spent the first four years of my life in Sunderland. I will always have fond memories of the city 🙂

[@Alamansour1]

I loved Sunderland the People and the place, went to Sunderland Polytechnic 1977-1881.

[@pahaynes1]

Ala Mansour Time traveller are you 😂😂

[@aprilapril2]

Me too

[@Mod-rw9cw]

Are you Dr Who ?

[@aprilapril2]

@@Mod-rw9cw oh my goodness... that is some feat isn’t it....

[@janesmith9024]

My mother grew up near here but moved to Newcastle so hardly ever took us back. Her father died leaving her the only child, a tiny baby and her mother who was then a widow the rest of her life , when he fell whilst working on a ship - he fell from such a height at Sir John Priestman's shipyard in 1930 he died only aged about 30, been married just over a year. Dangerous work at the shipyards in the 1930s.

[@izzym5879]

My grandparents were born in Sunderland...My great grandparents lived on Ormond terrace/ street? They were married in St. Gabriel's at the end of this street I believe....they moved to Gloucestershire in 1939 but Sunderland was always home 💖

[@Jules-fx2sc]

I lived in the next street up, Ewesley road, a great place to grow up

[@izzym5879]

@@Jules-fx2sc my nan and grandad always missed Sunderland x

[@philiskirk57]

Street

[@darrensmith4279]

Ormond street.i went out with a girl no 29 ormond street x

[@chocoangora]

What a lovely look back, thanks so much for sharing this .....not been home for 24 years maybe its time i gave the old place a visit !

[@scottandrewbrass]

I love these old clips of Sunderland in the 1990's

[@healfdeane]

Fantastic video on the Sunderland that was. Thanks for making and uploading

[@mn4169]

many generations of my family were born in Sunderland. I moved away in order to move forward. sad to see all the unused and shoddy buildings.

[@sheilagutteridge6724]

lump in me throat...great that was thankyou

[@terencebarrett2897]

Sheila Gutteridge I agree with you sheila ,when you think how many industry's we had in Sunderland,the mind boggles and everything connected to those industry's making employment, our town was booming ,but that was all of england our country was reaching the stars,now all we have is Nissan etc,and our governments are so severe on the old ,esp on unemployed,the disabled ,and are being crucified,this is not being christian in the name of god and the bible, but this is from governments,from tony Blair's ==David Cameron's government and Americas= Europe's gravy train fraud corruption illegal wars etc ,bombing other country's to smithereens and based on propaganda to justify there wars for invasion and looting of oil gold and minerals etc just greed and domination of power,and this is coming back to haunt the British people ''of a like we have never seen,america and Europe are surrounding Russian and China coasts etc sanctions to russia,and have even spited our own European farmers ,produce as gone to waste rather than trading with Russia ,and put our farmers out of business, and they are saying ''hey Russia is goading for war,they are trouble making,that's the state of england now with Europe and america war making

[@sheilagutteridge6724]

well said

[@georgejenner9903]

@@terencebarrett2897 You have perfectly put down the thoughts of so many others, Terence. Well said.

[@TinyDancerO]

@@terencebarrett2897, Most of the people receiving dole money, are more than capable of working. Those residents drain the system and the town of its funding. Those same people are in the pub, morning, lunch, and dinnertime, while those working their butts off to make a decent living for themselves and their families are left footing the bill. A lot of excuses, when in fact there is no excuse.

[@terencebarrett2897]

@@TinyDancerO friend you are right in a number of points,I can't remember commenting,as I had strokes and i also have brain disease's etc ,

[@giggitygoo3945]

All the beauty of the olden days gone now same as my home of manchester what a shame

[@alanduffell6820]

Our city that once had everything, now basically a wasteland. No shops, no seaside fair and no industry to provide local wealth/pride. Live just 20 mile away and have been back once in 15 years. Keeping the memories.

[@sidirodromeas]

Excellent video 🙂 I always remember my most beautiful 5 years there (1982-87) as a Civil Engineering student at the Poly. What is the title of the background music please? Thank you!!!

[@davewoodley3716]

Great memories! I used to watch the glassblowers at work on my way to Redby school.

[@MrBlueSky474]

Yea, shame they knocked Redby school down!

[@michaelloughlin7108]

MrBlueSky474 I went there in the late 60s great school. .....

[@MrBlueSky474]

Apparently my Grandmother also went to Redby in the early 1900's. Have you got a relative called Dale?

[@michaelloughlin7108]

MrBlueSky474 no

[@northnsouth6813]

Redby skole wot a grate educationlly plac it was. Joking aside I went to the infants, secondary and senior. Not the best of schools but I did well in life.

[@joedow6180]

Excellent, some memories in there. How things have changed. COVID 20/21

[@malcolmmatson]

Great brought back some wonderful memories thanks

[@davemurrayfolksingersongwr3884]

Loved the film I write many songs about Sunderland city and Mackem in general why not drop in and take a listen to real folk songs about Sunderland from the Mackem Folk Singer

[@lordbarrold3309]

Great footage - when Sunderland was a booming part of the Country

[@GrahamRelton]

The astonishing sights and sounds of Wearside past will be celebrated in Sunderland on Film, a fantastic new show from North East Film Archive, which will launch the Sunderland Literature Festival this year. Join us at Sunderland Minster 6:30pm Friday 2 October 2015 for a spot of nostalgic time travel, from a thrilling FA Cup win in 1973 back to the lost world of Edwardian Sunderland. The film show starts at 6:30pm at Sunderland Minster, High Street West, on Friday 2 October. Tickets are priced £2.00 and are available from local Studies Library, City Library & Arts Centre, Fawcett Street, Sunderland. For more information contact: 0191 561 8439 Further info at www.northeastfilmarchive.com

[@bobhammond32]

" You can take the lad out of Sunderland BUT you cannot take Sunderland out of the lad" great memories of Sunderland that have travelled with me wherever I have worked on this planet! great place great people.

[@Trev.M.1986]

Before my time some of it. What a time it must have been to be alive. When sunderland was awesome. Place is ruined now 💯

[@donny_420]

It’s mad to see what this city was like before the council and other little divies decided to fuck the place up. Great video!

[@themanftheworld8439]

Couldnt agree more mate.Absolutely.Thats what happens when self serving amateurs are let loose in the council chambers and out of their depth in important decisionmaking.Labour have killed my home town over the years and decades.

[@jeanbissettfayse8844]

Totally agree with you.

[@sharifela7993]

This is my hometown and its a tragedy how it has stagnated compared to Newcastle. What have the council done thats made a difference over the past 30 years?

[@themanftheworld8439]

@@sharifela7993 nothing.

[@TinyDancerO]

@@themanftheworld8439, The council is only partially to blame. The lack of respect by the residents themselves is a much bigger issue. For the thugs and degenerates who have no concept of what it means to nurture and care for the place they live in, there are equally as many residents, who shrug their shoulders and accept the status quo. My words seem harsh, but any community is only as good as the people who take pride in it. Council and residents gave up, a very long time ago.

[@realguitarshredder]

Love these videos.. I keep wondering when I see a random baby or a person in the video that if they ever saw this video, what were they doing then where r they now. Etc

[@realguitarshredder]

I also lived there from 2005 to 2010

[@robertcoleman4861]

Who recorded the music very stirring.👍👍👍👍🦘

[@DavidAspden]

Well editted and really good soundtrack.

[@FragranceGame85]

Does anyone know where this is filmed at at 1:17

[@chewbecca3830]

England looked amazing in the late Victorian/Edwardian era

[@tomstev2745]

Chewbecca and so did roker park

[@chriswilson4614]

it's so sad to see what someone has become over the last few years.the children have nowhere to play anymore.Sunderland Council are turning Seaburn into one giant housing estate. the leisure centre has gone together with the ice rink and leisure pool.and only people who seem to be prospering out of it is the self-serving Sunderland Council who have been in power for far too long.only today we have found out that the council Laden Mr Miller is on his way to China which is costing the taxpayer £16,000 and for what.what does he hope to achieve

[@Paul-kj4my]

Absolutely spot on... it's criminal what the Labour Council has done to our City!

[@jasontempest4233]

Sunderland is where half my roots are. I bet somewhere in this short film are my distant relatives and I'd never know it.

[@MrBlueSky474]

Great film sunderlandgov thank you!

[@mckenzie3238]

Sunderland is literally the best

[@mehcol]

love this and crying

[@msssteamchannel9376]

2:46. That was when Sunderland was actually GOOD at football! I should know... I live there.

[@tomstev2745]

Mss steam Channel and now look at us

[@PublicTransport4U]

@@tomstev2745 are we better or worse?

[@tomstev2745]

Public Transport 4U obviously worse

[@AngelaPennock]

Where have all the people gone 😢

[@muminurrhoman8318]

Great video

[@simonfisher9737]

Where can I access the full version of this film? All tips appreciated. Thanks.

[@ianryan5727]

Fantastic.

[@joshmcdermott6331]

i want a copy of this video

[@davidforster9171]

Love this video happy days for me,

[@Trev.M.1986]

Sunderland. The town that once was........

[@organicgrower825]

Love my City. Hendon born forever. Thatcher destroyed the industry and now it's all gone

[@stewartw.9151]

The EU can be blamed for that. Part of their Grand Plan.

[@alexanderfairs2700]

As part of the eu plan the shipyards had to close

[@sharifela7993]

How is that the case? Honest question

[@terencebarrett2897]

Absolutely heartbreaking our town decimated destroyed, a bomb couldn't make much more damage ,,you think plans were made in 1970+ to destroy whole city centre and build houses on the land,and corner by corner they encroaching on city centre, its absolutely sad tearful

[@fandesannees8070]

Where can we buy the DVD ?

[@mehcol]

I'm a proud mackem . Thanks

[@davidsnowdon7328]

Born and Bred Mackem and proud this is God's Country

[@ealfieris]

Where can we watch the full film? :-)

[@spunkstarrs]

will always be my home, even though the streets are dirty asf nowadays

[@johnchi8449]

My English is not very good，what did the Sunderland fans said？

[@darrensmith4279]

Haway the lads

[@TheWyatt64]

does anyone know name of glassblower?

[@CRUSADER1189]

Horatio ?

[@keithedmundson2318]

Jimmy Davison

[@margolax9553]

Always look at crowds to see if I can see my family….

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

I suspect that most of the older people in this film would have bemoaned the supposed decline of the city since they were young. And that goes on... so that the best times were perhaps when we were still living in the oceans?

[@acquiesce-ol5ok]

The Townhall was the best building in the town. To demolish it was criminal!

[@jennytalia226]

The Bluebird Saloon was the only great car Nissan ever made, and why did Elton John want to be at the Cup Final ?

[@northernvoice7288]

Haha that's what I said to the missus when I saw Elton

[@kiteman1234]

Bloody fab.

[@SirDamned]

still drinking double maxim and maximus beer to this day

[@shadow-Sun]

Sunderland in decades past seemed from the clips to be a vibrant working class area ....I lived and worked there for 5 years in the 90s it's is bloody grim place now, dirty streets and roaming groups of dissaffected people not just youth .....

[@rossunderwood531]

Cheeky fucker glad ya pissed off!!

[@shadow-Sun]

@@rossunderwood531 thanks me me too believe me : ) xx

[@ianjohnboy]

sunderland has my heart im born and bred there,and for all its faults,it is a beautiful place with stunning coast and countryside,even if them that have never left think its shite it aint you have just lost what beauty she holds ,i will be home again one day my beautiful sunderland

[@lindaroy6955]

excellent :)

[@AmadriadiCeliaBailes]

NICE !!

[@ROSIEBGOOD]

Love it from a Luton girl 😊

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

Tremendous

[@izzym5879]

my great grandparents lived on or monday street/terrace....house there was lovely but very haunted

[@davec1704]

Were was Monday terr Izzy

[@annabellehiggins2300]

its sad that my parents and grandparents grew up with this Sunderland, and now this place feels like it could've been much more. I've grew upon in a shithole, it is confirmed.

[@domaineferrandiere3189]

Just a shame everyone at nissan hates it

[@zeddeka]

The basic problem Sunderland has is that it's lost its reason to exist. Like so many other cities in the UK.

[@jennytalia226]

The Nissan Bluebird saloon, the only good looking car Nissan ever made.

[@obviousmartin7331]

There is always sun in Sunderland 😉

[@tangoone6312]

Harwar the lads :)

[@Juliukas101]

Why are they all wearing flat caps????

[@davidsnowdon3144]

Wouldn't live anywhere else God's Country

[@darrensmith4279]

Yorkshire is gods country

[@ME-ke7qc]

this is a labour run city nothing will ever change all our night clubs have gone pubs ..yet they build a cultural building?

[@dread4836]

very sad watching this, these are our ancestors who are now hated by our Government and Institutions, as well as immigrants who are here to replace them [English Patriot]

[@adameve1014]

Immigrants whose replaced them? The asian and black population is very small in Sunderland it’s a friggin shit hole racist as out no ethnics would choose Sunderland councils racist aswell as the people

[@chongchang6502]

allow everyone , harry wiggles here , just to let yas all kna , I was from sunerland old school, I was a paper boy at the age of 7 , ended up on the dole not being able to work one of them computers so thus I couldn,t send a blasted email ,, anyhow owa barry's just bought is a set of ballpoint pens out of wilkos in the twn so I'm gonna now apply for any paper jobs out there ,, ive heard they've closed he sunderland echo and woolys , ah well itll be jacky whites next

[@rogerofrhodri]

That's a fine big woman @ 27 seconds

[@martinmurphy536]

sad music. appropriate.

[@imaenglishman5471]

Haway the lads ;-)

[@jasonbrice4567]

Look at Sunderland football team now ! Lazy ! Over payed no adrenaline

[@laurengamer9464]

Football doesn't mean anything

[@brightfilms8026]

Lauren Gamer to you maybe but to a lot of people it does

[@TheLoughDuck55]

Not anymore anyway 😫

[@tomstev2745]

Lauren Gamer yes it does everywhere you go football like Sunderland AFC is like a church to people the matches are the church which people would go to and hope to get something out of it

[@philiskirk57]

It does in the north east its everything

[@davebarrow2194]

It's everything to us in sunderland.we love our team.through thick and thin.it's in our blood.

[@hrxy1]

dreadful annoying background repitive noise, pounding drums horrible

[@davt8615]

Hard working town! Grafters man ❤