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Roker near Sunderland

Lord Potts said:
Aye the course of the present A19 was basically the Sunderland bye-pass. That's why the road makes that huge swoop around the west of the town, Before it was built we had to suffer heavy vehicles comming up from Teeside driving right up Fawcet and crosssing the Wearmouth Bridge in order to make their way to the Tyne, It wasn't built to define the limits of the City of Sunderland anymore than the North Circular Road defined what became Greater London.
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Yeah, similarly the other way round.
A19 used to go through Billingham and over the Newport Bridge.
 

seahamstar said:
Yeah, similarly the other way round.
A19 used to go through Billingham and over the Newport Bridge.
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Owing to the extensive railway network in the North East that was built in the C19th to move coal in addition to its three major sea ports on the Tyne Wear and Tees (not to mention Seaham Harbour an Hartlepool) the trunk road system in the region by the middle of the C20th was virtually non existant compared to the rest of the country.

Until the late 1960's the region's main highway the A1 ran accross the Tyne Bridge and then up through Northumberland Street in Newcastle having passed through the middle of Chester-le-street on the way. The A19 was the coast route and that passed through the middle of every town and settlement in the East Durham . The new A1(M) was built through County Durham and at first it crossed the Tyne by means of the Tyne Tunnel before they took it to the West of Newcastle in the 1980's.

In addition new link roads were built between towns and settlements accross the region. It really did open up the North East not only to the rest of the country but internally. People would laugh at me today if I said that when I was a kid living in Sundrland in the 1950's a place like Silksworth was regarded as being located in the back of beyond.
 
Wearson said:
Well Whitburn is technically in South Tyneside.
Roker and Seaburn are their names, so why not use them?
I think the TV weather map varies the towns and cities highlighted.
It’s no big deal.
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Wife says we live in Seaburn, I call it Roker. She's totally RAOS..
 
DisillusionedOldGit said:
That was seriously awful .I worked in the Boro for a while and the boss who was an arsehole used to keep me back until ICI came out .
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I can remember when my parents got their first car.
Going for a drive out into the likes of North Yorkshire meant (from Stockton) going up Yarm Road and through Yarm (A19 !!).
Yarm was even worse of a bottle neck than it is now
 
Mackem00 said:
Has it not? I'm baffled by this.
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Not physically. Not even for your address. Counties haven't been required for postal addresses since the mid 90's, post town and post code are all that's required. The only two places it's still used that I know of are the Lord Lieutenant of Tyne and Wear (ceremonial) and the fiire brigade. Even the PTE calls itself Nexus now.
 
Paddy O'Dors said:
Not physically. Not even for your address. Counties haven't been required for postal addresses since the mid 90's, post town and post code are all that's required. The only two places it's still used that I know of are the Lord Lieutenant of Tyne and Wear (ceremonial) and the fiire brigade. Even the PTE calls itself Nexus now.
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Every day's a school day. I used to write Wearside thinking I was being a git rebel and that. I vaguely remember some discussion about it at school which was around the mid-90s so maybe that was it. 👍
 
Mackem00 said:
Every day's a school day. I used to write Wearside thinking I was being a git rebel and that. I vaguely remember some discussion about it at school which was around the mid-90s so maybe that was it. 👍
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RM went fully mechanised in the mid 90's with OCR technology and putting the county just confused their machines.

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Paddy O'Dors said:
Not physically. Not even for your address. Counties haven't been required for postal addresses since the mid 90's, post town and post code are all that's required. The only two places it's still used that I know of are the Lord Lieutenant of Tyne and Wear (ceremonial) and the fiire brigade. Even the PTE calls itself Nexus now.
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Shocking news for us exiles who've been putting T&W on the envelopes of every Xmas card we've sent to family and friends for the last 30 years - all that wasted time & ink!

I'm putting my trust in you for when I send a birthday card up to S/Shields later on today with less ink used. :)
 
What do you do if you don’t live in a post town tho?
Do you put “ Near ….” like we used to do back in the day.
 
Tantalum said:
Shocking news for us exiles who've been putting T&W on the envelopes of every Xmas card we've sent to family and friends for the last 30 years - all that wasted time & ink!

I'm putting my trust in you for when I send a birthday card up to S/Shields later on today with less ink used. :)
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Whatever shows on here is what you should write...

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I used to work in the RM Address Management Centre (the people who allocate, decommission and update post codes/data). One of my (rare) claims to fame is I allocated the postcode SR5 1SU to the address of a new build in Sunderland in early 1997 and decommissioned the one for Wearmouth Colliery.
 
pablo casals said:
Seen this in the press a lot, pic of Roker or Seaburn beach, described as near Sunderland. Or even no mention of Sunderland at all.

Both are very much Sunderland.

Just heard on 6 Music, Whitburn described as Tyneside.

Also quite regular when the biggest place between Edinburgh and Leeds doesnt get a mention on the weather map.

Any others?
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That Whitburn one bugs me it's blatantly sunderland yet tyneside nicks anything decent
 
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