Facts about Sunderland

Cannonball rocks are found on Roker beach and are only be found in other parts of the world like New Zealand

Carley Hill, we went there when I was at school to look at them. The big ones look like cannonballs embedded in the cliff face. When we were kids we'd nick birds eggs and replace them with a suitably sized Cannonball Rock so they'd keep laying.
 


Carley Hill, we went there when I was at school to look at them. The big ones look like cannonballs embedded in the cliff face. When we were kids we'd nick birds eggs and replace them with a suitably sized Cannonball Rock so they'd keep laying.
Are you talking about the people of Carley Hill?
 
A lot of the sand at Roker actually came from the Egyptian desert, used as ballast in trading ships coming back from the Middle East.

Anyone interested in this kind of stuff needs to get off the SMB now and get on amazon to order ‘Alice In sunderland’ which is packed full of facts, trivia and various other titbits of local knowledge. A great read.

"Alice In Sunderland" is also the b-side to "Stingray" by The Shadows (1965)
 
Wait really? Pics?
No pics but
SINE Project, Structure Details for Queen Alexandra Bridge

Chronology:


A lot of the sand at Roker actually came from the Egyptian desert, used as ballast in trading ships coming back from the Middle East.

Anyone interested in this kind of stuff needs to get off the SMB now and get on amazon to order ‘Alice In sunderland’ which is packed full of facts, trivia and various other titbits of local knowledge. A great read.
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Alice-in-Sunderland/Full?id=59062&readType=1
 
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Before being named a City, it was the biggest town in Europe

Biggest Shipbuilding Town

Nail your colours to the mast was started when a Sunderland lad literally nailed a flag to a mast.


It’s still exists mate.
It’s now known as the Latimer divide now after the recent development plans.


Jack Crawford I think?

Sunderland Flying Boat, named after the Town

Warships named after the Town/City

Liberty ships first invented and built on wear in record time before America started producing them to help the war effort and a great cost.
 
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Burke & Hare never operated in Sunderland. They never lived in Sunderland. They'd probably never heard of Sunderland.

They never robbed a grave in their lives. They were murderers. Serial killers, as the modern day parlance would have it.

Grave robbing was very much rife in the time that Burke & Hare were alive and living in Edinburgh, but there is not a single scrap of evidence that they robbed a grave. No pies were consumed in Sunderland or elsewhere containing B&H meat. The Sunderland connection is an urban myth. Look around at the town and cities where they were meant to have operated. Unless they ran a McDonald's style franchise, then it was impossible for them to be in all of those places.

They were murderers, not grave robbers.
 

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