WW1 PLANE CRASH TRAGEDY AND ALICE IN WONDERLAND CONNECTION! Southwick Sunderland History Tour
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- čas přidán 17. 07. 2023
- Do you ever think Sunderland is a gloomy depressing place with no history? Well think again - because today we’re exploring Southwick - an area of North Sunderland which often gets a bad reputation but has a surprising amount of history!
From a World War 1 plane crash to an interesting link to Lewis Carroll and Alice in Wonderland, Southwick is full of historic stories that I’m excited to share.
We’re exploring Southwick Green today; an area that has been at the heart of the community since the original settlement.
Sources I used:
Sunderland Antiquarian Society Facebook Page
The Peoples History Southwick by Peter Gibson
Southwick-on-Wear Volume 1-3 by Peter Gibson
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Very interesting in the 1970s, I worked in the local parks department and often had to go to Southwick Green to do the gardening. An old man told me that the green was designed to represent a ship with the public toilets placed where the cabin would have been on the ship with flag poles placed where the masts would be.
I don’t live in the area now, and it’s nice to see it as it is now, with all the green trees we planted hundreds of trees over the years and only a handful survived I didn’t know the bingo hall had gone it was very popular and I’m glad to see the Tramcar is still there because so many pubs and clubs have gone, and there was sunshine on your video i don’t remember what, thank you again for helping me going down memory lane and all the places where I grew up, again. Thank you
Unreal the work you do, i love it cheers!
Fascinating history tour.
Brilliant as usual!
I've just found you. I'm a member of the 'sunderland history and memories' group. and now you. i grew up in chester road.
Thanks for giving us this history of Southwick. Found it very interesting. My dad was born and grew up in Southwick. ❤
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Great history content, beautiful Holy Trinity church- who knew about Lewis Carroll! The memorial looks beautiful with its flowers x😊
Perhaps Lewis Carroll should have called his most famous work 'Alice In Sunderland' ! 😊
Lovely video my mams family grew up in Southwick, I'm just imagining what it would have been like , thanks for this 😇
If we could lose the alcoholics and crack heads. Southwick would be a great little community. Not that it isn't but these people most certainly bring it down! And trust me, there's a lot of it. I can't even walk to the shops without 4 crackheads asking me for money or cigarettes. It's a bloody shame to say the least! Oh, and thanks for this wonderful piece.
I do agree 😊 My family originated from Southwick so I know it was a nice place of community years ago
Yet another excellent video,my mam was born there and told us of many interesting characters who lived there and her memories of the war years,did you have a cuppa in the old police station on the green?whenever I return home it’s my first port of call
The Bean Cafe used to be Southwick Police Station which was buit about 1960. To the left of Subway stood Doctor Dickie's house and where he hd his surgery . It was a large Victorian mansion (perhaps earlier) that was demolished around 1961/62. Local kids claimed there were smugglers tunnels running down to the river under the house which seems unlikely. The old post office was located next door to the Tram Car Inn.
Southwick Council's old chamber was just off the Green in Southwick Road and was the local NHS Clinic & Dentist. In the 50's & 60's kids attending the clinic used to be generously covered in great big patches of Gentian Violet antiseptic which was bright purple in colour. It seemed to be daubed on them for any and every ailment. You therefore instantly knew when a school mate had been to the "clinic" and kept well away from the one's with the tell tale purple patches on their scalp - ringworm.
My auntie worked in the savoy picture cinema in the fifties colin London
Remember my late nana telling me about this and there was a poem about it can’t remember the words does anyone hear know it would be great to see it again
Is the Trammy still functioning? I'm gobsmacked.
Remember my nana telling me the story of the plane crashing in stony lane
Well done and thanks for another excellent watch.
I have a question? Although born and bred in Sunderland, I haven't lived there for 50 years. I remember it is a busy, bustling place, but your videos rarely show many folk wandering about, and everything is closed, and boarded up. Do you film right early in the morning, or is that the way is is these days?
It’s a shame what it turned into. A criminal hellhole. Imagine how nice it would have been as a little village. From proud and working class to drop outs unwilling to work turning to crime and councils turning Victorian buildings into boring communist style buildings.
Born and Bred in Suddick it's God's Country man
well done. but having lived near Southwick in the 60s and 70s I ca saynit was shitty then and still is.