Facts about Sunderland

[the boot]

Penshaw Woolies in fact ate chicken and pork. Regularly

 

[seaburnmackem]

Plarzy square (pennywell) was the first street in Britain where everyone had sky tv.

Bunny hill is man made.
Waste from hylton castle iirc.

Speaking of hills I was told a long time ago sunderland is built on 6/7 different hills.

 

[the boot]

Speaking of hills I was told a long time ago sunderland is built on 6/7 different hills.

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

 

[Fletch]

The pilot episode of the Teletubbies was actually filmed at Tunstall Hill

England's first ever stained glass window was made in sunderland for st.peters church 674AD

The basement room in the Rosedene has the biggest sex swing outside of London

 

[weebil64]

It has by far the greatest team the world has ever seen.

 

[Fletch]

Diego Maradona almost signed for Sunderland back in 1977

The Wear bridge is the oldest iron bridge in the world that still carries traffic

 

[the boot]

Over 90% of residents vote the same as their parents and grandparents.

 

[Goat Eyes]

We were the first city in the UK, no Europe, in fact the world to declare we wanted independence from the European Union.

 

[cornish mackem]

5 years ago today, London was inundated by Mackems

 

[scott934]

We were the first city in the UK, no Europe, in fact the world to declare we wanted independence from the European Union.

Class thread this.

 

[Lord Potts]

The Wearmouth Colliery shaft, opened in 1835, was the deepest mineshaft in the world, reaching a depth of 1700ft.

When the Titanic sunk one survivor was a Sunderland man originally from Southwick – working in the engine room of the doomed liner.

When US President Abraham Lincoln was assasinated in 1865 he was watching a play by Sunderland born Tom Taylor – the play was titled “Our American Cousin”.

In 1923, Sunderland Chief Constable F. J. Crawley pioneered phone boxes.

It was actually the "Police Box" like the one in Dr Who . It provided a telephone link to the police station, contained police equipment and was I think a resting place for coppers on the beat. The public could call the police in emergencies by using a phone that was accessible from the outside of the box but the rest of it was for police use only.
The first public telephone kiosk appeared in 1920 and was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. The famous red phone box was designed a little later in 1924

 

[JAZZMANB]

I'll forget by tomorrow

My fact We used to have great shops and buildings and nice people
Source.Facebook 2019

 

[Al Bundy]

Excellent thread this.
Loads of really interesting facts I wasn’t aware of.

 

[joemcdokes]

When the former Vaux site is complete, it will be 100 years since the anniversary of the brewery closure.

 

[girojim]

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

Humbledon Hill

 

[Goat Eyes]

Humbledon Hill

The houses are flying up on the top now.

 

[Paddy O'Dors]

Of the 15 cities twinned with Washington DC it's the only one that isn't a capital city.

 

[Deleted member 27897]

Farringdon was derived from the name of "Farnton" of which was an estate and manor which saw one family line occupy the land from the middle ages to the 1950s.

 

[Paddy O'Dors]

The Wearmouth Colliery shaft, opened in 1835, was the deepest mineshaft in the world, reaching a depth of 1700ft.

When the Titanic sunk one survivor was a Sunderland man originally from Southwick – working in the engine room of the doomed liner.

When US President Abraham Lincoln was assasinated in 1865 he was watching a play by Sunderland born Tom Taylor – the play was titled “Our American Cousin”.

In 1923, Sunderland Chief Constable F. J. Crawley pioneered phone boxes.

First one was in Kayll Road.

 

[Teed]

First one was in Kayll Road.

Thought it was a police box.