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Keel Crossing [opened 18.10.25] - compendium thread


SPUFF said:
Surely that would enlarge concourses too!
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Would make a huge difference to the size of the concourses. Never understood why the north extension didn’t make better use of the available land to incorporate the concourse into it. Suppose it’s something that could be done at a later date.
 
Mr B said:
Would make a huge difference to the size of the concourses. Never understood why the north extension didn’t make better use of the available land to incorporate the concourse into it. Suppose it’s something that could be done at a later date.
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Yeh thats our area and a few extra metres space would help its bedlam at ht.

Or ive even suggested platforms over kiosks with a staircase up to ease the scrum!
 
It's really interesting to see how dramatically the river has changed in the past 60 years. When I was a kid it was simply one giant industrial workshop that ran along both banks from its mouth to Castletown.

Only the people who worked in the industries along its banks had access to the parts of the riverside that they were employed on so for the vast majority of the city's population nearly all of it was a no go area. Slowly over the years parts of it have been revealed that were completely unknown to people like me because they could only ever be glimpsed from a distance and even then they were hidden behind the clutter and the buildings of heavy industry.

It's certainly a change for the better but I often wonder if those even aged up to their 40's can really imagine what Sunderland looked like when it was a massive industrial power house.
 
Lord Potts said:
It's really interesting to see how dramatically the river has changed in the past 60 years. When I was a kid it was simply one giant industrial workshop that ran along both banks from its mouth to Castletown.

Only the people who worked in the industries along its banks had access to the parts of the riverside that they were employed on so for the vast majority of the city's population nearly all of it was a no go area. Slowly over the years parts of it have been revealed that were completely unknown to people like me because they could only ever be glimpsed from a distance and even then they were hidden behind the clutter and the buildings of heavy industry.

It's certainly a change for the better but I often wonder if those even aged up to their 40's can really imagine what Sunderland looked like when it was a massive industrial power house.
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I grew up with Austin & Pickersgill at the bottom of my street and it is fascinating to have that area opened up to explore now.
I was flying the drone from the bottom of the path leading down from the Stadium to the river this morning and a bloke passed me on one of those tricycles that you lie back in. Can't have been comfortable coming down that cobbled path but he had the tunes blasting. :lol: Hope he didn't skid on the turd I skidded through yesterday as well.:evil:

Few more shots from this morning.
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Lord Potts said:
It's really interesting to see how dramatically the river has changed in the past 60 years. When I was a kid it was simply one giant industrial workshop that ran along both banks from its mouth to Castletown.

Only the people who worked in the industries along its banks had access to the parts of the riverside that they were employed on so for the vast majority of the city's population nearly all of it was a no go area. Slowly over the years parts of it have been revealed that were completely unknown to people like me because they could only ever be glimpsed from a distance and even then they were hidden behind the clutter and the buildings of heavy industry.

It's certainly a change for the better but I often wonder if those even aged up to their 40's can really imagine what Sunderland looked like when it was a massive industrial power house.
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I think in the 70s, 80s heavy industry was on the decline. Even though there was still a lot of work there didnt seem to be a lot of money. Lads would walk up or maybe on a bike from the yards down at Pallion, didnt seem to be many cars. Flat caps and those blue bags that had their "bait" lunch in them. They would spend their money on beer, fags and gambling. Remember pre internet and video recorders were a bit of a novelty. Watch old recordings of Sunderland it was pretty grim, coal burning fires and many didnt even own a washing machine. Then the yards closed, plenty of redundancy money and the town changed. Yes the river opened up, call centres and modern industry. Its different now, better not sure. Maybe in years down the line people will look back at now and think the way I look back at the late 70s and 80s. Sunderland is def better than the 90s and early 2000s. T&W dev corp and One NE did nothing for Sunderland (some will argue) but since the council have had more control just look at the riverside. Newcastle based quangos let the place go in my opinion.
 
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