Sunderland life 1809-12
Our Newcastle-based volunteers are scouring regional newspapers for references to life in Sunderland.
These extracts from the Tyne Mercury give a flavour of trade, housing and social life in the early 19th-c town. They were transcribed by Stella Clark.
Content generated during research for two paperback books 'Sunderland and its Origins: Monks to Mariners' (ISBN 13 : 9781860774799) and 'Sunderland: Building a City' (ISBN 13 : 978-1-86077-547-5 ) for the England's Past for Everyone series
