William Waples and other photographers captured images of a lost world, people of the port at work and play.
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.
Fawcett Street was the main thoroughfare of Victorian Sunderland.
Ashbrooke was Bishopwearmouth's fashionable middle-class suburb, from the mid-19th century.
There were two significant developments of new streets on the fringes of Bishopwearmouth village in the 18th century.
New Tunstall (now Silksworth) is the village serving Londonderry's Silksworth colliery, which opened in 1873.
Thanks to Denny Wilson, councillor for Castletown, for passing these photos to us.
Sunderland cottages are a distinctive local feature.
Very many of Sunderland's male population were freemasons in the late 18th century.
