10 Gary Rowells
Striker
No, we need to look forward not back. Sunderland should rise above the petty parochialism that holds the whole NE back.
Should Sunderland rejoin
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molthemackem
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Oh. Its just the OP was asking if we should rejoin? Doesnt that mean we left?
DJP
Striker
molthemackem
Striker
No, just the same as the Tyne does not flow through Durham
mackembulldog
Striker
mackembulldog
Striker
Saw this on an Echo (of all places) article
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The new arrangement brought good cheer to precisely no one. Consequently the new county ceased to exist in any meaningful sense in 1986 when Tyne and Wear County Council was abolished. Politically Sunderland rules itself as a metropolitan district council.
No one lives in Tyne and Wear. There’s no such place any more. However, when you give details online, some websites insist you give Tyne and Wear as Sunderland’s home county, even though it doesn’t really have one any more.
Postcodes provide more confusion. Houghton is part of Sunderland but has Durham (DH) postcodes. Similarly Washington has Newcastle (NE) postcodes. Seaham and Peterlee have never left County Durham, but have Sunderland (SR) postcodes.
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The new arrangement brought good cheer to precisely no one. Consequently the new county ceased to exist in any meaningful sense in 1986 when Tyne and Wear County Council was abolished. Politically Sunderland rules itself as a metropolitan district council.
No one lives in Tyne and Wear. There’s no such place any more. However, when you give details online, some websites insist you give Tyne and Wear as Sunderland’s home county, even though it doesn’t really have one any more.
Postcodes provide more confusion. Houghton is part of Sunderland but has Durham (DH) postcodes. Similarly Washington has Newcastle (NE) postcodes. Seaham and Peterlee have never left County Durham, but have Sunderland (SR) postcodes.
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citybythesea
Winger
Sunderland hasnt benefited being part of Tyne and Wear, or any NGO associated with the "north east".....like one north east, tyne and wear development corp etc. Even things like nexus are particularly bias to Newc. The more we become independent of any "north east" newcastle-biased decision making the better.
So its a yes from me. There's no point in being part of any partnership if youre essentially marginalised.
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Man About Town
Winger
All it ever did was allow Newcastle to suck the life out of us, County Durham on me birth certificate so aye and it would piss the Durham mags off no end. Who's starting the campaign then?
Paddy O'Dors
Striker
The postcodes thing is because SR7 and SR8 was gonna be Sunderland under local government reorganisation but was changed at the last minute to give it more political balance. Parts of SR6 went to South Tyneside so they would have the minimum 100k required to be a Metropolitan BC.
Tuono
Winger
Sunderland is in County Durham, we never left. tyne and Wear is a Metropolitan County which isn't a real County at all, it was formed (imho) because Newcastle couldn't afford to build the metro without our money. I've always put County Durham on every letter I've sent to Sunderland and always will. FTM.
vinegar hill
Striker
Of course we should.
Hundreds of years of history eradicated on the whim of some faceless bureaucrat.
Sunderland is in County Durham and we should fight to have it recognised as such.
Hundreds of years of history eradicated on the whim of some faceless bureaucrat.
Sunderland is in County Durham and we should fight to have it recognised as such.
There’s another side?
