Documentary on Sunderland (1994)

[NorthCountryBoy]

Found this a good watch, good footage of the SOL when it was a pit, the old shipyards etc.

 

[Falconhoof]

Is Amanda Smith really Arya Stark?

 

[sidneyeric]

Found this a good watch, good footage of the SOL when it was a pit, the old shipyards etc.

Cracking that, thanks.

 

[NorthCountryBoy]

Cracking that, thanks.

Aye I watched it in a one-r. Seems like massive change in the city between 1989 and 1999, maybes more than the 20 years since.

 

[mcq10]

I’ll watch that later.

If only to prove to my missus that there were hardly anyone who owned a car when I was growing up in the late 80s early 90s

She thinks I exaggerate

 

[Dan..Dan..Dan..Dan]

The SOL has never been a pit.

 

[millfield ftm]

Found this a good watch, good footage of the SOL when it was a pit, the old shipyards etc.

Can remember watching it at the time , some ambitious plans announced by balls etc , but nothing seemed to happen at the end of the program , bit reminiscent of today , lots of plans for Sunderland , which is good but stuff seems to take so long

 

[double maxim]

Watch it with the subtitles on, must be a speech to text thing. Just nearly pissed my pants laughing at the lass from Hendon talking about her husband Alan's stainless titties and her mexican son.

Honestly, treat yourselves.

 

[cornish mackem]

I moved away when this was made (1990) and watching it makes me have mixed emotions. Some people had so much positivity but I honestly felt not one ounce of that which made me leave. Opportunity for me were pretty much nonexistent but I wasn’t alone. Watching them lads shut the gates and drop, the cranes fall, ( north sands I believe ) being steam rolled and the promised jobs that never arrived breaks my heart.
Part 2 and 3 tomorrow
Thanks op

 

[JAZZMANB]

There's 4 of them and I found it interesting and depressing .It looks 50 years old at least People moan non stop about Sunderland today.Its a far better place than it was then .

 

[double maxim]

Just had a delayed reaction chuckle over Alan's stainless titties when this thread bumped.

 

[tunstall birdman]

I recognise the woman at 3.40 seconds. I worked with her on some projects. She used to be the Marketing Manager for Sunderland College.

Good documentary.

 

[JAZZMANB]

I recognise the woman at 3.40 seconds. I worked with her on some projects. She used to be the Marketing Manager for Sunderland College.

Good documentary.

Short curly hair and a dress like a tea cosy ? ah that's all of them !

 

[EDGE]

80s jumpers! Shudder.

 

[The Snockerty Friddle]

This is how I remember it

 

[pablo casals]

it is a very good, the kids in it are 2 or 3 years younger than me and I knew one of them, loads of memories flooded back about growing up at that time

 

[NorthCountryBoy]

There's 4 of them and I found it interesting and depressing .It looks 50 years old at least People moan non stop about Sunderland today.Its a far better place than it was then .

Totally. So much regeneration, makes you wonder what it'll look like in another 30 years.

 

[PTID]

Good watch, but depressing as someone already said. You have to laugh, Frank Nicholson ,, the posh git of Vaux Breweries , Vaux fooked off not long after, and the woman whose hubby worked at Wearmouth , that went as did the Mail order firm she worked at

 

[Pseudonym Number 1]

There's 4 of them and I found it interesting and depressing .It looks 50 years old at least People moan non stop about Sunderland today.Its a far better place than it was then .

It really isn't

 

[NorthCountryBoy]

It really isn't

How is it not (interested)?