Northern Spire

[tunstall birdman]

This is in Fawcett Street also, look at the clip of the brickwork and the bottom left window of the 6 windows!

Link to Fawcett Street Google Street View

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All the builders must have been pissed that day.

 

[Boris Bear]

We'll never know

Good

 

[RestlessNatives]

This is in Fawcett Street also, look at the clip of the brickwork and the bottom left window of the 6 windows!

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I used to work there when it was Edward Thompsons. Not a straight wall in the place and they weren't the types to spend money on putting it right. That was thirty years ago so I'm surprised it hasn't collapsed by now.
All the floors were wonky upstairs.

 

[EDGE]

I used to work there when it was Edward Thompsons. Not a straight wall in the place and they weren't the types to spend money on putting it right. That was thirty years ago so I'm surprised it hasn't collapsed by now.
All the floors were wonky upstairs.

Pretty sure there was a fire there in the 70s.

 

[Dmac1969]

My mate reckons he went to school in there. Mind he is a confused old bastard, so may be wrong.

It was the Technical College then a Polytechnic from 1969 , then a Uni from 1992 , so he could have I suppose.

 

[Paddy O'Dors]

It was the Technical College then a Polytechnic from 1969 , then a Uni from 1992 , so he could have I suppose.

Green Terrace school was round the corner, went on to become The Bunker.

 

[KarenDent]

Pretty sure there was a fire there in the 70s.

Was it not a furniture store over the road that burned down ? @luvulongtime might know

 

[luvulongtime]

Was it not a furniture store over the road that burned down ? @luvulongtime might know

Frank Caws - Wikipedia
Caws' buildings in Sunderland include the Elephant Tea Rooms, Corder House, Sydenham House and the terraced Holmlands Park in Ashbrooke.[8]

he might mean Pearlmans warehouse round Suffolk st way which seemed to mysteriously spontaneously combust every now and again

 

[CollingwoodFTM]

Aye I didn't realise we were such a high priority target for the German bombing raids either, obviously due to our ship-building prowess.

Nazi bastards coming over here and taking all our buildings!

View media item 3134Kate Adie reckoned the Jormans targeted Sunderland for this.

 

[the boot]

Was going to ask this, as many of the bridges in Vietnam, China etc similar to the Spire bridge have lights that alternate between colours, and on some occasions they must flip a switch and it become a bit of a light show.

Aye like the the Christmas lights in Lidl. Looks good.

 

[Kitch]

Pretty sure there was a fire there in the 70s.

Hardys furniture shop,between Dunns clothes shop and the National Provincial building society.early seventies it burned down.

 

[EDGE]

Hardys furniture shop,between Dunns clothes shop and the National Provincial building society.early seventies it burned down.

Opposite Woolworths? Aye think that's the one.

 

[Kitch]

Opposite Woolworths? Aye think that's the one.

Yes, the very same.

 

[KarenDent]

Hardys furniture shop,between Dunns clothes shop and the National Provincial building society.early seventies it burned down.

That's the one I was thinking of Kitch

 

[Le Chuck]

My mate reckons he went to school in there. Mind he is a confused old bastard, so may be wrong.

There was a school on green terrace years ago, which has since been knocked down

 

[EDGE]

I would've only kept the main building. No idea about the high ceilings but I would've thought they'd be the same as any Victorian buildings.

Can be lowered. We have it done in my house.

 

[Billy Fish]

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Have they never heard of austerity, turn those bleeding lights out

 

[Yankee Mackem]

Some info here about the Technical College here

Our history

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Here's a close up showing Technical College

When I was at Uni in the 1990s and I had lectures there, I had a bit of an explore one day. Turns out whole floors had been sealed off since the late 70s/early 80s due to a legionnaires outbreak. Whole rooms abandoned as if the owners had just walked out. Desks full of coffee plates and calendars open on the day they were shut. You could still get into the top of the tower then as well. The old science labs in the cellar were creepy as hell, I remember tons of things in jars and old science equipment set out for classes like ito was yesterday.

 

[safc_1973]

Cannot believe Peter Andre is opening the new bridge. Typical Sunderland

 

[AlpineExile]

Cannot believe Peter Andre is opening the new bridge. Typical Sunderland

Post-post-modernist irony.