Facts about Sunderland

I believe it’s sealed now. There was a large well near the reservoir which has since been capped. I’m unsure about the paper mill end.



Yes, the big round thing as a concrete reservoir. Defunct now.
Don't think there ever was a tunnel as such, but there was a resevoir there long before the concrete one. Think it was for Leechmere brickworks which was once there.
 


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Don't think there ever was a tunnel as such, but there was a resevoir there long before the concrete one. Think it was for Leechmere brickworks which was once there.

I believe there is a report on this on the 28 days Later Urban Exploration site. I haven't registered so can't search it, but recall it saying a pipe ran from it to the paper works. Whether the pipe ran in a tunnel, I don't know.
 
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I meant the estate, not the actual farm. The estates are on Sourmilk Hill.
Having looked at the historic maps and had a look last night on the way back from the match I know where it is.

The land opposite the Mill Hill roundabout is raised around 20m. Hallfarm road goes through the middle of it so I imagine this was originally a small hill that has been dug out in the middle. Strangely I've never noticed this despite going to Mill Hill school that overlooks it in the 1970s and living within a few hundred metres of it since then :oops:. In my defence I assumed the raised area was man made from the groundwork waste :D.

I can confirm the estate itself is part of Warden Law itself as the rest is a continuous slope.
 
The footpath/disused railway line that goes from behind the Museum Vaults to the Barnes through to Sainsburys was part of the Hetton Colliery Railway Line (onto Warden Law Hill and Copt Hill), was the first railway in the world to not use animal power and the first entirely new line developed by George Stephenson.
 
An invite was made to Adolf Hitler to meet Neville Chamberlain for secret talks to try avoid war , venue was the Bungalow Cafe , Roker, to avoid London media attention , that particular meeting was changed last minute to Munich . FACT

Is that why there's a signpost to Germany outside of it?
 

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