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.
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
Sunderland's extraordinary variety of significant churches ranges from the Anglo Saxon St Peter, Monkwearmouth, to the "cathedral of the Arts and C
Tunstall, between Ryhope and Silksworth, remained an agricultural hamlet into the 19th century.
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
The historic centre of Bishopwearmouth has been subjected to more change than most parts of the city.
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.
Almshouses were built to cater for the "respectable poor" from early in the 1700s. For the desperate, there was the workhouse.
