Facts about Sunderland

[Summer Bee]

Well Doxfords were a bit specialised because they also built marine engines. I remember their "Seahorse" in the 1970's was very well known . When our family lived in Marley Pots you could hear the sound of an engine on the test-bed at Doxies . It was a bit like someone playing Reggae at full blast a mile or so away with the base running through giant woofers.

If you lived in Marley Pots your family might have known him

 

[Metro Man]

I think that Edward Thompson’s was/is the world's largest printer of bingo cards.

 

[Deleted User 2893]

I think that Edward Thompson’s was/is the world's largest printer of bingo cards.

Didn’t they have some sort of patent?

 

[Kevj]

I think that Edward Thompson’s was/is the world's largest printer of bingo cards.

And the current management had the foresight to diversify when traditional bingo began to decline into online gaming and are now the very successful Tombola.

 

[divvydave]

Ritchies ma appreciates tail

 

[Metro Man]

Didn’t they have some sort of patent?

Not sure, but I dealt with them many years ago (for general printing) - the bingo side was certainly a high security operation.

 

[bob-xix]

Gertrude Bell "The Queen of the Desert",
born in Washington sadly died in Baghdad 1926, she is still respected by the Iraqi people to this day
I visited her grave in Baghdad with a client last year

 

[Tuono]

In the 1960's Austin and Pickersgill won and international competition to build a replacement for the WW11 Liberty Ships that had been mass produced in the USA during the war. The ship was called the SD14.

The Liberty Ships design had in fact been based upon a proto-type prefabricated ship that had been built by Bartrams of Sunderland in 1940.

Sorry but it was 1935 and built by J.L. Thompsons.

Willicks is the national dish of Sunderland.

 

[Lord Potts]

Sorry but it was 1935 and built by J.L. Thompsons.
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I stand corrected. Isn't there a model of it in Sunderland Museum. I seem to remember seeing it many years ago.

 

[Tuono]

I remember it from a programme on the telly a few years ago. We built the first Liberty Ships but they weren't called that yet. During the war we couldn't build them quick enough so we gave the USA permission to build them as part of the war effort and we received nothing back as payment. Ours were rivetted but the US ones were welded because they had supplies of gas where we didn't.

 

[waddy999]

It's recorded that St. Cuthbert's coffin got stuck on the way past Warden Law before being directed to Durham.

 

[citybythesea]

The guardian newspaper solely blames Sunderland for Brexit happening

 

[errant]

Gammons like walking holidays in Sunderland, or doing work experience in newsagents...

 

[c032745y]

Starting point for an historic March for Freedom that will make the country's politicians sit up & take notice...

...only city in Europe not to have a centrally located police station

Will benefit from HS2

 

[Teed]

the lad who played in the film was a mlf as well.

He was, his cousin was Ernie Taylor.

 

[123SunTan]

Gave Netflix a foothold in the world of football documentaries.

 

[errant]

Gave Netflix a foothold in the world of football documentaries.

By that analogy, it also gave the world James Cordon & Car Pool Karaoke...

 

[rey mysterio]

Hadrians Wall was supposed to have been built along the Wear starting from Hendon as the Romans thought people from Southwick were scruffy bastards

 

[Scorer]

Starting point for an historic March for Freedom that will make the country's politicians sit up & take notice...

...only city in Europe not to have a centrally located police station

Will benefit from HS2

Think that march started in Jarrow!

 

[Weremuthe]

I remember it from a programme on the telly a few years ago. We built the first Liberty Ships but they weren't called that yet. During the war we couldn't build them quick enough so we gave the USA permission to build them as part of the war effort and we received nothing back as payment. Ours were rivetted but the US ones were welded because they had supplies of gas where we didn't.

I did Higher Nationals metallurgy - one of our welding lecturers asked to read up why so many Liberty ships built in the US sunk compared to the British built ones.

I've just found out 35 years late!

Liberty Ship Failures