John the Savage
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First railway journey- Hetton to Sunderland
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Hang on I’ll give her a callIs that true? She's been very vague about her personal life apart from that her real father was Irish and she was conceived in Lincolnshire while her mother's husband was away in the army during WWII.
Most references say she was actually born in Sunderland but I'm sure I heard her say that her adoptive parents had to travel south to go through the adoption.
I believe John Wilkes Booth’s mother was from Sunderland too!When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in the theatre he was watching a play called Our American Cousin which was written by a playwright called Tom Taylor who was from Sunderland.
Class story that is. I didn't know about that. I know it said the street he lived at was knocked down but there should be a blue plaque near where he lived to commemorate this.The story of Charles Whilem, the Sunderland man who survived the Titanic disaster thanks to a game of cards
The story of the Titanic, sunk on its maiden voyage in 1912, is one that we all know and has fascinated historians, writers and filmmakers for over a century.www-sunderlandecho-com.cdn.ampproject.orgVictor Francis Sunderland
Victor Francis Sunderland was a young Englishman and Third Class passenger aboard Titanic. He had a cabin on F-Deck. (ticket number SOTON/OQ 392089 £8 1s). Victor was born on Thursday 17th March 1892 in Upton Park, Essex, England. James William Sunderland en Marie Catherine Foley. He lived in...titanic.fandom.com
Hang on I’ll give her a call
Great lady.Kate Adie is always associated with Sunderland and she was schooled here but was actually born in Whitley Bay and was adopted by a Sunderland couple and then studied at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Great lady.
Here’s a curious link that I read about last year: near the end of the Boxer Rebellion of 1860, British troops under Lord Elgin burnt down the Chinese Summer Palace - a complex of buildings and palaces about five times the size of the Forbidden City, whose loss is still a huge issue in China.
BBC article
This was in direct retaliation for the Chinese torture and murder of a 20-strong negotiation party - containing the renowned Times foreign correspondent Thomas William Bowlby…who grew up in Sunderland and was educated at the Grange School.
Wikipedia biography
Or there’s this story that made international headlines. See who assisted in the rescue.Alan Sunderland who played for Arsenal........... errr never mind !
Aye and do you know what type of timber it was built out of?Noah’s Ark was built by Pickies
Oldest stain glass window in the world1st stained glass windows in the UK at St Peter's 675AD iirc
I was invited to contribute to "making history" on radio 4 a (fair) while back on English stained glass. They just wanted a northerner to ask some questions I think.1st stained glass windows in the UK at St Peter's 675AD iirc