Wearside Echoes

A busy River Wear scene from 1958. #Sunderland

@MichaelBoys4 Last train was 101 years ago. You’d have to be a canny age to have witnessed that!!

@WearsideEchoes Didn’t even know trains used to go over that bridge. Guess that was way before my time.

Old shots of the train crossing at Lisburn Terrace, in Pallion. #Sunderland

I can see my late father’s office. In Austin & Pickersgill’s.

@lixmount @Brianro01 Yes - it says it’s being tested on the postcard. It did run for a little while but basically a white elephant. Line closed in 1921.

@Brianro01 @WearsideEchoes This is the Tay Bridge being weight tested in the same way, so that's got to be what's going on surely!

All aboard the bus to Farra! #Sunderland

Get your magnifying glasses out for this… a bird’s eye view of the Queen Alex bridge and Doxford’s shipyard. #History #Sunderland

@JohnGelson Knew you’d know!!! Cheers John.

@WearsideEchoes One of three PTE Daimler Fleetlines repainted into historic Corporation bus/tram liveries to mark the centenary of local public transport in Sunderland in 1979

The Wear Dredger at Hendon Docks in the 1920s... I think! #Sunderland #ship

@LynnHartley7 1979 I believe - taken at Ivanhoe Crescent on Durham Road.

@WearsideEchoes What year is this? Obviously before the yellow PTE buses?

@DurhamPolice Hi - what do you intend doing with the empty tiny police office in staindrop please?

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@SAFC_NYorkshire @DeanCruddace Wow!! Well done Sherlock SAFC!!

@DeanCruddace @WearsideEchoes 875cc!

@tonyveitchuk Wow! Love it!

@WearsideEchoes My little Borgsten on my desk.

A floodlit photo of the tanker Borgsten - built by JL Thompson's and launched in 1963. #Sunderland #ship #shipbuilding

@DeanCruddace Nailed it in one 👏

I remember my Dad working on that , and I was at the launching .