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Black's Corner plans to transform Seaburn tram shelter


One of my earliest memories is of my dear old dad (well he wasn't old then) taking me and my sisters to ride on one of Sunderland's last trams. It must have been on a Sunday morning and we got on it in Roker Park Road so I suppose that was one of the last routes that the trams ran on.

I don't remember much about the journey - I think that we went to the Wheatsheaf - but I can still see in my minds eye the tram coming towards us and getting on it outside of the park. I am always surprised to be reminded that the trams were done away with in 1954 because that would have made me 2 years old at the time.

I have no recollection of the tram shelter on the sea front being in use with trams but it seems to me that's where the tram that I got one must have started from. I believe the the roundabout at Seaburn and the tram shelter there was the terminus for the tram line.

Other that that I remember a few years later the work men digging up & removing the maze of tramlines around the Wheatsheaf junction outside the Sunderland Transport bus garage where the Stagecoach offices are now. I think that the last remaining bits of tram line weren't removed from all of Sunderland's roads until the early 1960's but the overhead power cables must have gone soon after the trams themselves were taken out of service

I am glad that the old tram shelter is being put to some constructive use. Rather than just having the occasional handful of people dodging into it out of the rain for a few minutes as has been the case for the past 70 years hopefully hundreds of Sunderland folk will now go into it an enjoy it each year.
 
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riffraff said:
Cheers marra. I’m including yourself in that group anarl btw with KLD, Uncle Tone, KS, The Naz, the new council feller whose getting these new city centre offices built, pop recs, the fire station, the new sea front stuff, the new bridge etc.
The place is barely recognisable to an exile from visit to visit. Keep up the good work everyone and best of luck to the film studio lads in getting their project ower the line. Getting an actual cinema needs sorting but I can wait. Keep it up everyone.
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Why put those on the roof ? FML. strange design feature and likely to be a head turner in more than one way 😂 otherwise amazing transformation Jonny boy.
 
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