Holy Trinity, attributed to the architect William Etty, was built in 1719 to serve the newly created parish of Sunderland.
St Peter’s church, Monkwearmouth, formed part of the Anglo Saxon monastery founded in c.673 by Benedict Biscop.
Built by William, lord Hylton in the late 14th or early 15th century. The gatehouse, the original core of the medieval castle, still remains.
The Hudson Dock, the first in a complex known as the South Docks which extend from the harbour entrance to Hendon, revolutionised shipping into and
William Waples and other photographers captured images of a lost world, people of the port at work and play.
A miscellany of the unusual and striking around the city. These are a few of our favourite things.
Above, detail on 138 High Street West.
A Sunderland landmark, the much-loved Empire theatre, built on the site of Bishopwearmouth's medieval rectory.
Rector's Gill provided an overspill burial ground in Bishopwearmouth.
Mowbray Park, created from the open space and quarries of Bildon, or Building, Hill in 1854-7, was doubled in size in 1865 when it took in land aro
South of the Wearmouth bridge, a grid of new streets was laid out, 1810-14, for John Fawcett by his agent William Jamieson.
