Facts about Sunderland

[Tuono]

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

I did nautical engineering at Redhouse Comp. mostly because we got the afternoon off school to play around in boats at the North Dock. Some of the lessons did sink in though.

 

[pillars of hercules]

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

Outside my house iirc.

 

[Weremuthe]

I did nautical engineering at Redhouse Comp. mostly because we got the afternoon off school to play around in boats at the North Dock. Some of the lessons did sink in though.

I was sponsored by NEI /Rolls Royce to do a BSc Physics (we did the Control & Instrumentation for Nuclear Sites - power stations, nuclear reprocessing, submarines etc) and it took about 6 years - I left soon after, the work dried up under Thatcher's policies...

 

[rey mysterio]

On a clear day if you stand on top of Penshaw Monument you can see all the way to Herrington

 

[Shusssh]

Penshaw Monument was originally going to be a pyramid but some parts in the flat-pack were missing so the builders just improvised.

 

[Wilfy]

Penshaw Monument was originally going to be a pyramid but some parts in the flat-pack were missing so the builders just improvised.

Lies. The truth has already been covered in this thread.

 

[Kevj]

Penshaw Monument was originally going to be a pyramid but some parts in the flat-pack were missing so the builders just improvised.

Lies. The truth has already been covered in this thread.

The stone used to build the dock walls at Seaham dock were hewn from the quarry at Penshaw.

 

[Shusssh]

Lies. The truth has already been covered in this thread.

I’m intrigued. I’ve only read the first and last page, hoy a link up to the post that’s debunking my lies.

 

[zinedine]

Carley hill.
Tunstall hill
Hastings hill
Mill hill
Downhill
Copt hill
William hill

I've never heard of William hill. It's a safe bet very few Sunderlanders have.
Don't forget Humbledon hill.

 

[Wilfy]

I’m intrigued. I’ve only read the first and last page, hoy a link up to the post that’s debunking my lies.

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[Shusssh]

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I've did further research and I retract my statement. Must have been just a few pillars missing.

 

[Paddy O'Dors]

The bloke who invented the modern day pram, William Wilson, served his time as a blacksmith in Sunderland shipyards. He moved to Leeds and founded the Silver Cross company which still exists today.

 

[Kevj]

The bloke who invented the modern day pram, William Wilson, served his time as a blacksmith in Sunderland shipyards. He moved to Leeds and founded the Silver Cross company which still exists today.

Billy Willy?

 

[MackneyHackem]

The bloke who invented the modern day pram, William Wilson, served his time as a blacksmith in Sunderland shipyards. He moved to Leeds and founded the Silver Cross company which still exists today.

I was pushed about in a Silver Cross. Me ma’s probably still got it the little hoarder.

 

[Paddy O'Dors]

I was pushed about in a Silver Cross. Me ma’s probably still got it the little hoarder.

If it's good enough for royalty...

Billy Willy?

Been there, had that.

 

[mysticmackem]

On 31st August, 1976, Mr TheWanderer was born in Sunderland and is believed to be the only surviving human to be born with two stomachs.

Not Teesside ?