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Roker near Sunderland


Jasper said:
What?


Just drinkers or do you still get runners, dog walkers, families etc out kicking around?
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Be people who live that way better placed to answer than me, especially for the cooler and winter months, but when I was down recently on a warm summer’s evening for drinks and a meal I couldn’t believe how busy it was with runners, families on the beach and promenade, dog walkers, people swimming, you name it. Was great to see, and was a class atmosphere.
 
Was through Seaburn with the dog for a walk along the front today and up to Whitburn cliff tops. What a coastline we have, view over the bay looking towards our pier was tremendous.
 
Sgt Pepper said:
Was through Seaburn with the dog for a walk along the front today and up to Whitburn cliff tops. What a coastline we have, view over the bay looking towards our pier was tremendous.
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That bays not far from Sunderland either😉
 
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Tuono said:
I just watched YouTube video that mentioned "Southwick on the outskirts of Sunderland".
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It wasn't part of Sunderland until just after WWI. It had it's own town council and the old youth project building on Southwick Road (also formally a NHS clinic) used to be Southwick Town Hall.

As I kid I remember that at the junction of Church Bank and Southwick Road there used to be a and old fashioned road sign pointing towards "Sunderland". I also remember Castletown being and isolated pit village at the bottom of a steep bank - I am sure that it was then the only road in and out .

Of course they have both been inner city for many years now. Certainly since Hylton Castle and Red House estates were built in the 1950's and then Town End Farm in the early 60's. You would have to be over 100 to still think of Southwick being on the outskirts
 
My first school was in Southwick, I think it might have been called West Southwick School. I was only there for one year but I remember it had coal fires in the classrooms and the teachers used to keep it alight by throwing shovels of coal on it, imagine teachers doing that these days. It also had outside toilets.
Not sure if this link will work but Sunderlands own Dave Taggart telling Dermot O'leary His Oooh Hendon is a place on earth refers to Hendon Sunderland not Hendon London.
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Just watching escape to the country there and this woman wants to leave the city of Newcastle behind and move to Northumberland. Well she lives on the coast overlooking the sea so she doesn't actually live in Newcastle.

The bias is obviously clear. Newcastle's boundaries extend well outsides its own city limits in the eyes of the ignorant, despite what the facts are

Whereas Sunderland's actually city boundaries seem just to shrink. Washington, Houghton and Hetton never seem to be actually Sunderland, when factually they are. Then the likes of Seaburn and Roker are taken from us aswell.

Hard to think there's not some conspiracy
 
1more said:
Just watching escape to the country there and this woman wants to leave the city of Newcastle behind and move to Northumberland. Well she lives on the coast overlooking the sea so she doesn't actually live in Newcastle.

The bias is obviously clear. Newcastle's boundaries extend well outsides its own city limits in the eyes of the ignorant, despite what the facts are

Whereas Sunderland's actually city boundaries seem just to shrink. Washington, Houghton and Hetton never seem to be actually Sunderland, when factually they are. Then the likes of Seaburn and Roker are taken from us aswell.

Hard to think there's not some conspiracy
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Ooooh I'm just watching the same thing. No comment to make just that we are watching the same thing.

Posh fella on now
 
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