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Roker near Sunderland


I don’t think anyone is arguing mind. People are a little miffed by my opinion on the matter.
Because you are on a windup? Just like the wifey on that group. If you live in a house in an estate in Sunderland,you live in the said estate in Sunderland, not near. Never has been. It's in Sunderland simple really. If you are going to a specific place in Sunderland then you'd probably just say I'm going to roker,unless you are from out of area and then you'd just be going to Sunderland. The word near never ever comes into it
 
Because you are on a windup? Just like the wifey on that group. If you live in a house in an estate in Sunderland,you live in the said estate in Sunderland, not near. Never has been. It's in Sunderland simple really. If you are going to a specific place in Sunderland then you'd probably just say I'm going to roker,unless you are from out of area and then you'd just be going to Sunderland. The word near never ever comes into it
if you live in pennywell you live in pennywell, not Sunderland. Near Sunderland yes.
 
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
I say let's have a vote to make suddick independent again please😂
 
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