The Greatest Shipbuilding Port in the World


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That depends on how parochial you're being. If you regard the club as for Sunderland, you may have a point. However, if you regard the club as being for the whole of County Durham, which actually reflects the demography of the support base, then coal is far more relevant than shipbuilding.

Relevant point but Sunderland is about the sea and ships, beaches etc. Durham lot will just have to buy into that surely.
 
They also found shallow coal seams when cutting the A1 near Lumley on the way north to Chester Le Street.
Monks dug into the hillsides of the Wear, for coal near Finchale Abbey over a thousand years ago.
The earliest records of shipments of coal in UK were from Sunderland to Whitby Abbey.
The Wear was stopped from exporting coal by the King , he being supported by the folk of Newcastle got the Royal approval to export coal which caused a catastrophic effect on the livelihoods and lives of Wearsiders, who suffered from poverty and death due to starvation. Sunderland supported the Parliamentarians. The Scottish Army encamped in Sunderland and along with the folk of Wearside attacked, burned and ransacked Newcastle during the Civil War . It was many years later that Wearside was granted the approval to re start exporting coal to London.
Apparently when we wanted to build the piers Newcastle objected. This would have affected their coal trade. Tough titty.
 
The Sunderland claim to fame was the biggest shipbuilding town in the world
This came about because all the Wear shipyards were in Sunderland .Unlike the Tyne and other rivers
It was because, we produced the most tonnage of ships per year
That depends on how parochial you're being. If you regard the club as for Sunderland, you may have a point. However, if you regard the club as being for the whole of County Durham, which actually reflects the demography of the support base, then coal is far more relevant than shipbuilding.
Durham Miners, I don't think people are aware of how many pits were in the town Wearmouth, Hylton, Silky, Ryhope. That's without covering all the pits in the Durham Coalfield. I also think a lot of people aren't even aware that Sunderland is part of County Durham.
The Sunderland claim to fame was the biggest shipbuilding town in the world
This came about because all the Wear shipyards were in Sunderland .Unlike the Tyne and other rivers
It was because, we produced the most tonnage of ships per year
That depends on how parochial you're being. If you regard the club as for Sunderland, you may have a point. However, if you regard the club as being for the whole of County Durham, which actually reflects the demography of the support base, then coal is far more relevant than shipbuilding.
Durham Miners, I don't think people are aware of how many pits were in the town Wearmouth, Hylton, Silky, Ryhope. That's without covering all the pits in the Durham Coalfield. I also think a lot of people aren't even aware that Sunderland is part of County Durham.
 
Who cares about unskilled workers who dug holes in the ground. We were the most prolific shipbuilders in the world
They didnt let unskilled people loose with explosives .However all this talk of coal reminds me of my old Grandad ,on one his several visits to Gill Bridge Avenue ,the magistrate sending him down said he was a cunning and persistent coal thief, which he wore as a badge of honour for the rest of his life
 
2. Its called the Stadium of Light, not the Stadium of Water.
Should be Stadium of f***ing tears
Relevant point but Sunderland is about the sea and ships, beaches etc. Durham lot will just have to buy into that surely.
Should replace the lamp with a beach ball to tie in with the club's footballing history.
If they'd built it on farmland would we have a statue of a cow?
Nah...3000 quids worth of straw!
Some of our fans have a hissy for over owt, absolute drama queens
And you know where you can stick yer granite!
 
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That depends on how parochial you're being. If you regard the club as for Sunderland, you may have a point. However, if you regard the club as being for the whole of County Durham, which actually reflects the demography of the support base, then coal is far more relevant than shipbuilding.
It’s Sunderland not County Durham. Get over it
 
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