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Mowbray Park and Winter Gardens
Mowbray Park
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens
Victoria Hall and the Victoria Hall disaster
Jack Crawford
Fawcett Street
Burdon Road and Ashbrooke
High Street East
Old Sunderland and the East End
East End and Old Sunderland
South Docks and Hudson Dock
High Street West to Keel Square
High Street West to Keel Square
Keel Square
Sunderland Minster and Almshouses
Green Terrace
The Lambton Worm and Penshaw Hill
Wearmouth’s bridges
Riverside walk (north bank)
Riverside sculpture trail: west
Riverside sculpture walk: east
St Peter’s Church
Roker and Whitburn
Hylton Castle
Walks
Cycling tours
Useful resources
Some relevant background readings
Ballad of the Lambton Worm
The Captives’ Hymn
Celestine Edwards
The Departed Pilgrim
Thomas Dixon
Margaret Dryburgh
End of the Century, 1984
Fire Station verse
Jack Crawford poem
James Field Stanfield
Lines on the Death of a Brother
Lines to Sir Cuthbert Sharp by Sir Walter Scott
Mackem
The Pleasures of Sunderland
Pretty Girls of Sunderland
Reverend Robert Gray
Spottee’s Cave
The dialect of Spottee’s Cave
The Storm
Sunderland Lighthouse
The Sunderland Trip
Victoria Hall
Watching and Waiting
William Paley
Sir William Herschel
2016 Sunderland Literature and Creative Writing Festival
Roker Sea Front – Glenda Young
Roker lighthouse – Sylvia Forrest
Progress/reform – Ian Todd
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