Transcribed and introduced by Maureen M Meikle. The customs posts were prized at Sunderland, so there was always competition when a vaca
On 4 March 1644, the Scots occupied Sunderland, thus gaining a secure base of operations in northern England and a port to receive supplies. This
The town plan of Sunderland was determined by the layout of its medieval burgages.
The coal trade was at the centre of Sunderland's 17th-c. prosperity, and continued to thrive through the 18th century.
A view of the coastline and town from the sea would have been the first sight of Sunderland for most visitors before 1800.
By 1700, the fords used by medieval and early modern travellers had more or less disappeared from the lower reaches of the Wear.
Ropewalks were a striking feature in the 17th and 18th centuries, situated on the edge of town on both north and south sides of the river Wear, one
An agreement made in 1656 between the 3rd earl of Devonshire's receiver, Humphrey Poole, and nine colliers concerning the working of coal at Heath.
Thomas Hobbes
Chatsworth was transformed in the 1680s from Sir William Cavendish's Elizabethan house with four tall ranges round a small courtyard into a fashion
