Old photos of Sunderland

[Deleted member 46791]

I was interested to see it as a comparison to how the site looks now with the ski slope and Sainsburys..makes you realise how big the pit must have been.

The Parkrun must have been interesting back then!
It must have been a massive clean up when Silksworth Colliery closed. I know that they must have used some of the colliery waste for the ski slope, but where did the rest go to? I didn't realise that the colliery only closed in 1971.

 

[Butcher's Coat]

Here is the opposite view of the colliery from above. You can see Tudor Grove in the background.

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That's Thorney Close getting built and Grindon Lane in the background marra, with Plains Farm in front of that.

 

[PinzaC55]

I'm only familiar with how it looks today as the Silksworth Sports Complex, and even though I knew it was once a colliery site, I had no idea it looked like that. To think that years later, David Beckham would play on that very site, as part of the Man United youth team. It does look grim, but it's still a cracking picture.

My sister used to live in the high rise flats at Farringdon and I have very vague memories of being able to see the pit lit up at night. It's surprising how few photos seem to exist of places like this.

 

[Trembaths Chippy]

Roker Park circa 1908

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Roker park football ground 1929

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Roker Beach

The one of RokerPark must have been taken from my old bedroom window in Sandringham Terrace.

 

[PinzaC55]

This photo shows a diesel loco bring empty coal wagons back from the Hetton Landsale in Hylton Road to Silksworth. The train is about to cross the main line at Millfield and the disused line on the left led to the tunnel under Silksworth Row to the Staithes. It closed in 1968.

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[Tuono]

When they levelled the Silksworth slag heap the middle was like a volcano.

 

[Shandy drinker]

The one of RokerPark must have been taken from my old bedroom window in Sandringham Terrace.

Roker park photo looks like an ant hill mob convention
Look how clean the streets were

 

[PinzaC55]

A young lad keeps an eye on the deck chairs in 1976 during the pre climate change heatwave.

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[Deleted member 46791]

A young lad keeps an eye on the deck chairs in 1976 during the pre climate change heatwave.

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The summer of 76, I remember it well. The six weeks school holidays were amazing, with glorious sunshine everyday. Up every morning, watch the Banana Splits show, and then out playing all day until it got dark. It’s strange to think that at the time, the scientists were warning us that an ice age was looming. Then along came that summer with it’s record temperatures, and then later global warming.

 

[SAFC 2012]

This thread is tremendous

 

[PinzaC55]

The summer of 76, I remember it well. The six weeks school holidays were amazing, with glorious sunshine everyday. Up every morning, watch the Banana Splits show, and then out playing all day until it got dark. It’s strange to think that at the time, the scientists were warning us that an ice age was looming. Then along came that summer with it’s record temperatures, and then later global warming.

Youtube appears to have buried the full video but this Short of Leonard Nimoy in 1978 gives you the gist of it.

 

[Deleted member 46791]

This thread is tremendous

I agree, it's an absolute belter. @bobster999 has played a blinder starting this thread.

 

[bobster999]

I agree, it's an absolute belter. @bobster999 has played a blinder starting this thread.

cheers!

 

[turnthetide3]

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My Mam lived in Tudor Grove when she was young..always telling us about looking across at the pit..i was interested to come across this..taken from Grindon Lane..looks grim like.

Bet its a struggle to park in Pancras Road now.

 

[bobster999]

Charles Hawtrey in front of the empire

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[KarenDent]

Spotted in the crowd at a Sunderland football match are film stars Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels.
21/03/1938

 

[Sporty]

Here is the opposite view of the colliery from above. You can see Tudor Grove in the background.

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This is it in Google Maps3D overlapped and as mentioned it's Thorney as the (white) road going up is Pancras Road in Plainsy, going across Durham Road traffic lights up onto Grindon Lane

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[Deleted member 46791]

Charles Hawtrey in front of the empire

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November 1976.
He was appearing in the pantomime’Snow White’. His co-star from the Carry On films, Sid James, famously died on stage at the same theatre earlier that year.

Spotted in the crowd at a Sunderland football match are film stars Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels.
21/03/1938

Hollywood comes to Roker Park. I wonder how they ended up watching the Lads. I checked Statcat, and the match was possibly against Chelsea. I’d never heard of either of them previously, but apparently it was Ben Lyon who discovered a young actress called Norma Jean Dougherty, and changed her name to Marilyn Monroe.

 

[Kevj]

This is it in Google Maps3D overlapped and as mentioned it's Thorney as the (white) road going up is Pancras Road in Plainsy, going across Durham Road traffic lights up onto Grindon Lane

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Cheers, that’s excellent that.

 

[tunstallhill]

Cheers, that’s excellent that.

It's class that. Love to see more of them

Only thing I can't work out is that I thought the ski slope was put on the old slag heap, but the top of the ski ramp looks to be right in the middle of the colliery buildings. Was the heap put there after the pit was demolished?