The verses on the panels read, in sequence:<\/p>\n
1900-1919 <\/strong><\/p>\n Children of Biscop\u2019s<\/p>\n Land Survey<\/p>\n A place of ships, coal and glass<\/p>\n On the hills of Tunstall<\/p>\n Canny decent working class<\/p>\n Never ones for bragging<\/p>\n Or for the idle boast<\/p>\n You will never meet finer folk<\/p>\n Than those from the Barbary Coast.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1920-1949<\/strong><\/p>\n Friday night on the town<\/p>\n Mackem chests<\/p>\n Swell with pride<\/p>\n A round of drinks for half a crown<\/p>\n The FA Cup comes to Wearside<\/p>\n Built the ships, dug the coal<\/p>\n Sat on the steps of the Dogs and Cats<\/p>\n Fought the wars<\/p>\n Signed the dole<\/p>\n Hankies tied in knots for hats.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1950-1969<\/strong><\/p>\n Sucked on Spangles, chewed liquorice root<\/p>\n Rocked around the clock till 2<\/p>\n Five bob for dad\u2019s new suit<\/p>\n The Beatles and Love Me Do<\/p>\n Sunday morning down the club<\/p>\n Just for a little taster<\/p>\n A bag of pork scratchings<\/p>\n As we laugh at the Little Waster.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1970-1989<\/strong><\/p>\n Progress seems to run amock<\/p>\n At an ever increasing pace<\/p>\n Whatever happened to the town hall clock<\/p>\n And what took its place.<\/p>\n The ships, the pits, the glass all gone<\/p>\n Like the sweets once sold in jars<\/p>\n Sunderland a place of learning once more<\/p>\n Of manning phones and making cars.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1990-2007<\/strong><\/p>\n Whatever may lie in store<\/p>\n Whatever dye may have been cast<\/p>\n Sunderland moves forever forwards<\/p>\n Whilst learning lessons from the past.<\/p>\n The wheel has turned full circle<\/p>\n The time foretold has come<\/p>\n Proudly we face the future together<\/p>\n Bequeathed to us by the Venerable One.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The verses on the panels read, in sequence: 1900-1919 Children of Biscop\u2019s Land Survey A place of ships, coal and glass On the hills of Tunstall Canny decent working class Never ones for bragging Or for the idle boast You will never meet finer folk Than those from the Barbary Coast. 1920-1949 Friday night […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-610","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/seagullcity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}