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
Of the mansions in the outer parts of Bishopwearmouth, little has endured but the names which are now attached to suburban housing estates or parks
There were Jewish inhabitants at an early date, a rabbi and small congregation by the late 18th century, and a greater influx after 1870, of Lithua
New Tunstall (now Silksworth) is the village serving Londonderry's Silksworth colliery, which opened in 1873.
The historic centre of Bishopwearmouth has been subjected to more change than most parts of the city.
Sunderland' s first purpose-built town hall was the Exchange Building.
A significant village on the outer fringes of Bishopwearmouth parish, the coastal settlement of Ryhope found a new lease of life when a pit village
The industrial settlement of Monkwearmouth Shore, hemmed in by ballast heaps, was largely demolished late in the 19th century.
A flurry of house-building after 1700 concentrated in and around the newly laid Church Street, in the east end of Sunderland. This set of images,
There was a military presence in the port through much of the 18th century, but it was not until the century's end, during the French wars, that a
Almshouses were built to cater for the "respectable poor" from early in the 1700s. For the desperate, there was the workhouse.
