Paddy O'Dors
Striker
Thought it was a police box.
It was, someone else corrected that further up the thread so I didn't bother.
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Thought it was a police box.
Ah right, I didn't see that.It was, someone else corrected that further up the thread so I didn't bother.
The Wearmouth Colliery shaft, opened in 1835, was the deepest mineshaft in the world, reaching a depth of 1700ft.
When the Titanic sunk one survivor was a Sunderland man originally from Southwick – working in the engine room of the doomed liner.
When US President Abraham Lincoln was assasinated in 1865 he was watching a play by Sunderland born Tom Taylor – the play was titled “Our American Cousin”.
In 1923, Sunderland Chief Constable F. J. Crawley pioneered phone boxes.
Reidy nearly bought van Nistelrooy.Diego Maradona almost signed for Sunderland back in 1977
The word "Pen" found in both Pennywell and Penshaw is an old celtic word for hill.
The name Southwick derives from the Vikings.
A lad from Sunderland invented the FA Cup
The original Penny Well after which the estate was named was in modern day South Hylton (where Greenbank Drive is approximately).
Until the late 1800's South Hylton was called Ford Ferry.
It's like living in Rome man.Humbledon Hill
Sunderland and Southwick were separate boroughs until the 1920s.
The word 'Tunstall' evolved from an Anglo Saxon word, meaning 'Maiden Baps'. Because if you stand on Tunstall Hill, where the football pitch used to be and look up towards Rocky Hill and Vinegar Hill, it looks like a woman's navel leading up to a pair of breasts.Carley hill.
Tunstall hill
Hastings hill
Mill hill
Downhill
Copt hill
William hill
Humbledon Hill, along with few other hills in Sunderland were discovered to have been Neolithic burial sites.Humbledon Hill