Can the City of Sunderland Bounce Back from Defeat?

[@wanderingturnip]

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[@Money4NothingUK]

vaux not vog

[@ethanebonhart6705]

what a man to care about his community so much

[@jayfreechavez0000]

❤😢

[@bradleyforde2601]

Burnip was confused, "he's taken over"! Haway

[@mindblast3901]

Shame Starmer does not

[@ellenoneill7853]

Very knowledgeable guest. Maybe he could start historic walking tours of Sunderland!

[@colin7632]

I’m 57 and from Sunderland! It was emotional to watch this. “Nil desperandum auspice deo” moto of Sunderland! Great episode 👍👍👍

[@skasteve6528]

What I love about this series, is it isn't negative. Too often we see videos about the decline of Britain, and to be fair, many areas are in serious trouble, mainly due to outside factors. I also love that there are people like Phil (and those guys in the Croydon video) who obviously love their city or town and are knowledgeable about the area.

[@edwoodsnowden]

Wow what a voice Faye Fantarrow had, so sad she passed away soo young from a brain tumour. I would like to visit Sunderland!

[@Magic-Florence]

It's so sad she died so young

[@JoyNova]

Ah man, video started out on a sad note, what a beautiful voice Faye had, glad you played a snippet of her music.

[@ChrisRoutledge]

Back in the early 1990s I taught English Literature part time at Sunderland University. One of the highlights was teaching Romantic poetry to newly unemployed dockers who had to go to college to get some kind of enhanced benefits. You can imagine how that went at first, but it did get better. I traveled there a couple of times a week from Newcastle and while Newcastle was also struggling at the time, Sunderland was something else. Glad to see it's made some kind of recovery, but it's been a long time coming, and there's a very long way to go. Incidentally, a friend and fellow postgrad student got a part-time job cleaning the windows at Nissan, dangling from the roof in a harness, and probably had an easier time ;-)

[@Magic-Florence]

Very interesting comment thanks 👍

[@quadders9198]

"Give life to space", great words, sums up how we turn around our dying high streets. As much as I love this channel, sometimes it can be sad to see town after town dying, but here its fantastic to see one trying to turn it around. Our politicians won't do it, we have to do it.

[@DaveyPalmer1]

Thanks for this, a quality video of a city on the up. BTW, I was the Wearmouth miner on the right in the photo at the 14:47 mark. The lad on the left was a guy called Phil Mosey. Good to see my photo still doing the rounds!

[@wanderingturnip]

Oh no that is crazy. As if you have ended up watching. Thanks so much for watching and commenting 👏👏👍👍

[@Magic-Florence]

@DaveyPalmer1 That's magic! Wow!

[@christislord2832]

🌈✝️🕊️😇😘🥰😍 incredible x x x

[@stuartarthur9844]

I was in Sunderland last week and it impressed me how the city is making an attempt to change. Popped into port and they are trying to create a community. Pop recs and independent are also making the right noises. Really enjoyed the market in the bridges as well.

[@pimpozza]

Great tour by Phil! Good to see his enthusiasm for Sunderland.. It's always extra interesting to hear the history of these towns by a local.. brilliant job all round! R.I.P. Faye Fantarrow.. a beautiful young talent taken away too soon.. 😔🎶💚

[@MrStryker2001]

Coming from Doncaster and working in Sunderland for a few days ive noticed what a fab city it is. There again tomorrow(Friday) Stayed in Roker and the seafront is beautiful. Drove up the coast to Marsden Beach. Wow. Will stay in the area for a weekend next time and explore the area. Heard Tynemouth has a fab beach. You cannot beat the North East Coast

[@MrMichaeljhinde]

I know it is easy to fall into, but so many people talk about the town they live in or know well and look back at all the things that have gone as society has shifted and many old things have died out - so it's always great to hear people like this, looking to the positives and how relatively small building blocks have the potential to help in writing new chapters in a town's history, whilst still celebrating some of the great moments from it's past 👍🏻

[@iangalley3464]

As a bairn, I used to get my hair cut at Johns, (my Dad worked at Joplings next door), although shut there, the business still operates, (in Sunniside, round the corner of the old Post Office). I've got a full house on my 'Turnip' bingo card as I have lived in places where you have done video's, (Stoke/Hanley, Huddersfield and London), so it was nice to see Sunderland now up here; I've used your (and others) video's as evidence to disprove people when they moan about the state of Sunderland. Yes, there are problems and it could be better, but it's got a better vibe to it and seems to be a good place to live and I think this video goes a long way to help prove this, (although summer time really helps sell this town, had you come here mid-winter...) Top video. Cheers.

[@Saints_Mariner]

Quite enjoy these episodes with locals showing you round 👍

[@pollypolygraph]

Phil was an excellent guide.

[@susieb6454]

My mum’s from Sunderland. Although I’ve never lived there it is the one place in the world that is really in my heart ❤️

[@John.les1]

You should try and get to one of the football games and experience the city and people. There's no going back after. Wise men say.....

[@melissabushill3005]

I live in country Durham and my husband works in Sunderland. As a southerner who moved up to the north east, I love mackems. So proud people and very proud of their heritage. If I’d have known you was coming up, I would have come up and said hello. Ooh look, that’s where my hubby works!

[@shineyredflag]

Great to see people won't let Sunderland die. Lots of the UK is in a similar situation and I look forward to seeing the rejuvenation throughout our nation.

[@BeccaAl]

12:00 Another beautiful working mans poetry, in another lovely Northern accent. That's my favourite part!

[@JamesTaylor-yg7ow]

I lived in Sunderland for around 10 years from the mid 1990's to the mid 2000's. For the most part I enjoyed it. The Mackems are great people and it's a fine City. I never felt unwelcome, even as a Teessider. I'm in Boro now and sadly the decline here is genuinely shocking and upsetting. I haven't been back to Sunderland for a while but my memories are fond. I wish all the best for everything to do with the place. Best place in Sunderland is Hot Rats, the superb record shop run by Marty Yule, one of Sunderland's finest people.

[@UncleReg]

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[@SirAdamKenna]

Great video, was hoping for one on Sunderland at some point, while some parts do seem dark and ran down, the work over the last 5-10 years has been amazing, most of my life Sunderland has never changed much but it has been developing so fast in a positive way, I hope it can continue.

[@thomasmacias5032]

Always excited to see wandering turnup drop a video. You’re absolutely amazing my friend. We love you here in northern California. Thank you my friend for showing me around England and anywhere else. I am disabled retired. Thank you my friend for getting me out wandering around.💯🙏🇺🇸🇬🇧

[@Arctic_Fox_NFFC]

Commenting as I watch. As the original local guide, I enjoyed this a lot and thought Phil did his city proud. Glad you are continuing the series. My knowlegde of the Sunderland area entirely comes from the BLOT Outdoors Show (?!) so it was nice to see the actual streets, in daylight. 6.00 Looks like the police station that got attacked two weeks ago? Damage not too bad then. Seems like closed down Debenhams are a staple these days, and you didn't get kicked out of the shopping centre! I remember Vaux. I don't understand what is happening to all these famous British breweries... I mean, people are still drinking beer? I have seen Forest play at the Stadium of Light and it's a magnificent ground with good atmosphere. Going to take a proper look around Sunderland next time I am up that way. Cheers, Rob

[@iangalley3464]

You're correct. Next door was a Citizen's Advice Bureau and that is totally burnt out. I think Debenhams went bust years ago?

[@Penshawwarrior69]

Hahah yes mr blot outdoors show is the boyo 😂🙌🏽

[@louisdobson6877]

Rightsss

[@SirAdamKenna]

Ere mate, they even visited one of his camp sites.

[@Horrorgamergal]

Im from Sunderland, the place was thriving when i was a kid, had a wonderful leisure centre called Crowtree, the best toy store called Josephs, a brilliant book store called Hills, lots of great shops and cafes, its so sad to see the state it is in now.

[@projectresonate5142]

Phil was ace, super knowledgable and set the scene so well. Top Video WTurnip.

[@roostercoburn]

Took my mrs to Sunderland for a few days last month we stayed on the seafront at Seaburn, she fell in love with the place and couldn’t believe chow nice it was 👍

[@klaireferry8108]

Absolutely loving this. Thanks Phil for writting in. I got well emotional here. I love My Sunderland and thank you for doing this video to show where we are and where we are going.... 🙌🏼

[@adamburgess1287]

Went to school in Sunderland in the 90s. Lived around 7 miles away in Seaham. Been living abroad for the last 15 years or so. One shop you passed which was Tully's Sewing Machine Shop and for a specialist place, it's amazing it's still there. My mother was a seamstress and dragged me in there in the early 1980s for bits and bibs for her machine at home. Used to love going to a computer shop in Blandford Street every month to get a game on cassette. Thank you for showing me the new stuff and the nostalgia for the parts I recognise!

[@InvestgoldUK]

I frequented that computer shop in the late 80s and early 90s too

[@baz-ux9bv]

Love going to John's for a hair cut, after each cut we always got these pink balls sweets. Great times

[@florence2095]

Thank you Phil 🙏 for your positivity showing us around your great home of Sunderland and the history lesson along the way . Wonderful uplifting episode 🐨🐨🦘

[@Magic-Florence]

Totally agree 👍

[@michaelj3282]

John's hairdressing was open in the early 80s cos I used to go there as a teenager! Just passed the side door to Joplings! Forgot all abot that. Hills bookshop, was lke walking into a library, a few doors from that photography shop too. Jacky White's Maket anyone? When talking about Vaux brewery, isn't that the old police station behind him?

[@iangalley3464]

You're correct; it's no longer the police station, it is just finishing being refurbished and will be a business centre.

[@davidhammond7339]

Great video once again 👏. I have never visited Sunderland before. I thought it was a really classy tribute to the miners. For the stadium of light after the miners lamp.

[@alexanderross1979]

G'day from Australia 🇦🇺 another great video from the wandering Turnip. I've only just come across your channel and very glad to find you've done a video on Sunderland, a town I'm very interested in, though I've never been there yet. Interested because I'm from Lake Macquarie (just south of Newcastle NSW, like Sunderland is just south of Newcastle on Tyne) and we share some place names with Sunderland such as Ryhope, Hexham and Lambton, and we used to have a Monkwearmouth colliery. I've followed Sunderland AFC for some years now. My cousin follows Newcastle United. We banter about the rivalry.

[@AnthonyPounder]

Many a kid had their first haircut at Johns. Joplings had the greatest Santa Claus setup - you stepped in one door from Sundwrland, lights flashed then you went out another door into the North Pole

[@lucybeckmann1378]

Well done, Wandering Turnip! I play for Sunderland Symphony Orchestra, which is such a great asset to the community.

[@lucybeckmann1378]

@@wix7657 I forgot to say that usually free tickets can be accessed via Eventbrite and do need to be booked in advance because our concerts are very popular.

[@mohai]

There's so much more to come! Riverside park, the pedestrian footbridge, culture house, the pavilion / immersive screen. The building of 1,000 homes at sheepfolds as the city recognises you need people to live in the centre to help it thrive.

[@Jennifer-cz2if]

You need to go to South Shields, I’ve just been there today and I’m shocked at how run down it is now. I guess that’s what 14 years of tories does for a northern town. It was a sad state to see and I think the people of South Shields deserve better because the people are so kind there. They have a fancy new bus and metro interchange but what’s the point of that if there’s not much there to actually bring people to the town?

[@NahMate345]

Look back at the few years I lived in Sunderland with fondness. Thanks for the video.

[@KPeake-wk2te]

What a video, I'll bare in mind the Glass Centre and those sculptures near the stadium since I'm going Sunderland soon!

[@andrewrobinson3030]

Amazing to watch. Some positive good news. Gutted to hear Double Maxim beer has gone. Was my favourite beer back in the 70s when I lived in Teeside

[@lauren1655]

Vaux still have a small Brewery Tap near the Wheatsheaf. They still make Double Maxim. I had a pint just last week in a local pub. Not a bottle.

[@AnonAtry]

It's very easy at this current point in time to feel an overwhelming sense of dispair at the direction this country is going in, however, videos like this remind us of the reason why we love our country so much

[@kaysmith-TheTruthSpeaker]

A great video I thoroughly enjoyed it. Although there's a lot of positivity there's nothing much about the regeneration of the shopping areas as far as shops are concerned... I took my grandchildren last week, we spent lots in the shops that were there but were greeted with a car parking charge of £6.40 for our 3 hour spend. No M&S or Debenhams or any major store apart from Primark. The parking charge was excessive in my opinion especially as we spent and ate bringing money to the city.. I'm a local but the choice for shopping simply isn't there so I personally won't be back to town unless shopping improves. I can go to Washington, park for free and get my M&S, the Range etc fix.

[@adriansmith1410]

When you think your channel couldn't get better it has 💪🐸👌

[@John.les1]

Hats off to the lad who asked for you to have a look about, spoke well. Sun'land is definitely on the up

[@user-s1o3nr532]

Repurposing these former retail buildings is key - good to see it actually happening. Great video - really enjoyed the positivity around it all.

[@maurikw]

Great work. Long way to go for Sunderland clearly, but clearly on the right path. After all the riots in the UK it’s clear that it’s so important to bring back a sense of culture to these places that left with the loss of industry and death of the high street.

[@pamy5965]

Fantastic to see regeneration of the city. It can be achieved. Great positivety.

[@smgreenartsprivate]

Congrats on your race results ;) Lovely to see Sunderland doing so well and rising up and doing well. Sorry to hear about the artist see if I can find her work anywhere online would like to hear more. Beautiful art installations :) Thank you David and Phil :)

[@TamsinSimmons]

Phil is a really good guide,really interesting.

[@mn4169]

I was born in Sunderland in 1963, emigrated in 1984 to Sweden, never looked back, do not want to live there, it does not fell like home anymore. left and never looked back, but i still love the place i was and grew up in.

[@tonywozere909]

Along with all this new concrete, a city centre also should have a nice park. Laying down turf may not be the most profitable enterprise but still a good investment to attract human, plant and animal life.

[@iangalley3464]

We do, although not part of the video, we have a park in the city called Mowbray Park, (there is a lake, you can watch the ducks and swans whilst feeding the pigeons or you can have a picnic and brave the seagull attacks, that's fun).

[@tonywozere909]

@@iangalley3464looks a goodun 👍

[@stephenscales353]

This has happened in Stockton where they;ve demolished the vile 1960s shopping arcade to open up the town centre next to the riverside.

[@Esafc-lb2sg]

Sunderland has several nice parks

[@MatthewDobson94]

Back home for a bit visiting the fam after 8 years away, excited to see some new spots!

[@tonypaddler]

Well done Phil for your obvious love of a great town (you'll have been 5 years old when it became a city) 👍, and also you couldn't have picked a better youtuber to vlog it.

[@franktreml3145]

The huge miners lamp is really cool. I didn’t know the rivalry between Sunderland and Newcastle went back to the English Civil war tbh very interesting. Good video. I am glad your tour guide was thinking differently re the High street.

[@acs5928]

Turning previously used empty retail back to residential where possible, is the simplest way to cure urban blight AND bring part of the local population back to the center of town.

[@RobinPalmerTV]

It is too expensive to do that for most retail buildings sadly.

[@freedomisslavery6840]

It ain't locals living in those homes mate.

[@acs5928]

@@RobinPalmerTV most uk high streets, have an abundance of retail shops that were originally converted from residential

[@acs5928]

@@freedomisslavery6840 what stats do you have to validate your claim?

[@thathurt]

They are doing this in every town or city. Turning old shops etc into student accommodation. It brought no benefit to my town. Just to the landlords.

[@donfranktv]

Looks like lots of investment coming to Sunderland - great to see - enjoying the video - thanks for sharing 🙂

[@rare_medium]

I stayed a week in Leicester recently. Beautiful old buildings, super clean streets, cool history with Richard III and Thomas Cook, but very dystopian feel. Lots of cafes and restaurants open with very few people in them, a Rolex shop, fancy hotels, and streets filled with food delivery bikes and strung out folks living rough. Would enjoy your take on it.

[@mikebowers7161]

That was SO interesting! I am from Bradford originally but now live just down the coast from Sunderland, in Saltburn by the Sea. Phil should definitely start a history channel of Sunderland and the NE. He really brought that video to life. I had absolutely no idea that that’s why they called it The Stadium of Light!! Excellent video as always!!

[@GT380man]

I bought a vintage motorcycle from a fella who lived in Saltburn by the Sea in 2009. I live in East Kent, and it’s the longest one day drive I’ve ever done in a car (I did a longer motorbike ride once!). It was a perfect day. I really enjoyed my brief trip to the northeast. Afterwards, I trickled on down to Scarborough where a sister then lived.

[@mikebowers7161]

@@GT380man Although I lived in Saltburn at that time, I didn't own a vintage bike. Think yourself lucky you didn't have to ride it all the way home!!

[@GT380man]

@@mikebowers7161 At my age, 64, I wouldn’t do the distance even on a modern bike! On an old nail, that we rode in the 1970s without a care, I would not contemplate a ride of over 100 miles let alone 350 or whatever it us!

[@Dangerous_Brian]

This guy talks passionately, but I think he is trying to polish a *TURD* - I spent many happy years exploring/visiting Sunderland during the 80s, then spent 5 years at Sunderland University. I lived abroad for 10 years and have visited Sunderland twice during the day, and it resembles *MOGADISHU and BERUIT* rolled into one. The damage is done!

[@lordofhousestewart1821]

What a wonderful host he really is a credit to the community

[@masekwm]

The Vaux site was closed when I went to uni in Sunderland in 1999!

[@GoingGlobull]

Another class video. Loving the optimism about England in this series

[@Kerriesteve]

The camera woman for the ad is 10/10 🎉

[@Sickofitall99]

I live Hartlepool originally from Essex been here 34 years, but i do have a soft spot for Sunderland

[@Magic-Florence]

I enjoyed this production! Thank you Phil and Turnip. May Sunderland find a little MAGIC again :) ❤

[@natashamcparlin5552]

You have done us proud Phil that was a really good tour. That was a lovely trip down memory lane. Thanks for the video Turnip im off to watch some more of your content now.

[@billerator]

Your 3:23 time is impressive - all that training walking round cities must be helping!

[@timbimjim514]

Great to see some rays of hope in such dark times .

[@juliaparker2683]

Sunderland is a shadow ov it's past ,remember the old 29/upper deck /Bentley/Londonderry and loads more ,great times and the town was busy .It was shocking to see the town centre about a year ago when visited

[@monkeysausageclub]

Nice of you to get your brother involved 😂 Sunderland should be a study in urban regeneration that all councils should look at.

[@johnkeilloh2682]

I left Sunderland and went “to the other side of the world”, Hartlepool lol.

[@SamRimo]

Then I went to another planet entirely, Redcar

[@briwire138]

Yeah, I thought he was going to say New York or London.

[@florence2095]

I thought you were going to got say Australia 🇦🇺 😂😂😂🐨

[@leeroii89]

He didn't even say he went to the other side of the world? He said he moved out of Sunderland and lived in Hartlepool

[@johnkeilloh2682]

@@leeroii89 correct, but having lived in the area for 20 years, I can assure you that’s what implication was

[@scourgies]

3:23 marathon is pretty crazy

[@Uber_Markus]

6:17 I'm from glasgow and anytime i'm down in Sunderland i always have to go to the Muller bakery

[@susandellet7121]

So heart warming to see regeneration is occurring especially up north which the tories tore the heart out

[@deedee7733]

You're doing a good job for future generations, documenting changes caused by what they may call the the Digital Revolution. I think town centres will slowly morph into a mixture of housing and social activity hubs. Shopping in person as a leisure pursuit is well and truly over. My town is already converting shops into flats and has knocked down two large buildings next to each other, formally Woolies and Littlewoods, and will be landscaping the plot. Going back 100 years, there used to be a hotel there. It's a town that has never stood still for very long.

[@perryhutchinson3412]

That big old empty building at the top of the bridges where all the shops are closed is being turned into a music arena similar to the o2 in Newcastle

[@dcallan812]

I remember shopping in Joplings, my dad's family were all from South Shields so Sunderland was the main big shopping area. I remember going into the car park they filmed parts of Get Carter staring Michael Cane. I also played in the Durham miners Gala for one of the pits

[@lazygazzzer]

My Granda used to take me to John's quite regularly when I was a young un. Short back and sides. Most of the places the older generation had fond memories of, have now all been demolished. They were all within a short walking distance of the East End. In the 1970s the local Council had this mad idea to knock down the old well-loved Town Hall on Fawcett Street and move further out to Park Lane in this modern building with a floor plan like a beehive. It was crap and fell to bits over the years. The East End got neglected and all the old buildings fell into disrepair and were all knocked-down one by one. I don't see that much regeneration in this vid. There's a lot of what Sunderland became after all the clearances - big desolate empty space.

[@wisher21uk]

Great video thanks I’m 10 mins away in South Shields 😊

[@philcollinson328]

Wondered when you'd get to the land of the Mackems...Great vid marra.

[@tordoff80]

great video ya can feel the passion that guy has for Sunderland

[@AliWade1971]

Running Turnip, not just Wandering 😀 So much fantastic new development in Sunderland.

[@christopherbartley3534]

Sunderland; a city on the up and gathering ground at a furious pace. Visited Sheepfolds today. Wow, what an amazing new venue!

[@jamesdavo6341]

yeah i used to get my hair done at Johns, usually on a Friday night circa 1996 - 98 when i was at the university..every couple of weeks..just a shave up the back and the sides to cheer me up, then off up to food giant for some shopping, then park lane bus station for the bus home

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

Yes but they have BLOT outdoors.

[@teejayy2130]

'The best thing about being a youtuber is that you can go for a pint at 2.30 on a Tuesday, no-one cares' best quote😅

[@DGardener-pu9kz]

Thanks for the upbeat video, it was a bit difficult to get my bearings as so many of the buildings I remember are gone. Does anyone remember Blackets As a kid I was amazed by the way my mum paid for things, She passed the money to the lady who put it in a cylinder and woosh off it went, a couple of minutes later woosh it came back with a hand written receipt. God Bless Sunderland

[@IGCSESUCCESS]

You need to visit St Helens (Merseyside); I grew up there and visit once a year to visit my family. I have the misfortune of walking down the high street and it’s so bleak and miserable.

[@willthorn277]

Carlisle....another city reborn! In fact currently being worked on all over. Carlisle also has a CHIMNEY!!!! Cmon turnip come see us up here in the most beautiful city (and technically the largest) in the uk. Castles, cathedral, cows and a couple whopping chimneys!!!

[@SirAdamKenna]

Visited Carlisle not long ago and despite everyone warning me that it was grim, I found it to be a great place.

[@Pogmothoin17]

Happy to see that you’re getting those ads in mate 💰💪

[@memyselfandi36]

Big shout out to Faye...what a talent she was ..incredibly sad the world didnt get to see what she was gonna be a star

[@jeffblahblah5226]

Yay! A bit of Positivity!

[@liveevil6386]

Recent videos have been excellent. Burnip fixing it up

[@neil7245]

Great video, Sunderland on the rise cool 😊

[@thathurt]

I love the beach in Sunderland and the glass centre. I hope it stays open. I enjoyed my last visit there. I hope they improve their awful train station though.

[@IanRichardson-y1m]

Really enjoy your guest tours , what do you call your other channel s thanks

[@d23bw]

The world need more like that bloke.

[@ED-209-8K]

😂😂😂

[@zulu3621]

To be fair Sunderland have always been more hip and innovative than any other towns in the north east especially when it comes to music. I don’t know why that is but I’ve worked all over the north east the past 40 years and it’s just a fact.