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Sunderland is a community located approximately 100 km (62 mi) northeast of Toronto, Ontario, Canada in Brock Township, in the Regional Municipality of Durham.This is currently one of the very few populated areas of the Greater Toronto Area where the Trans-Canada Highway passes near, thus also making this the closest point from the highway to the City of Toronto at 100 km (62 mi) apart.
Binns was assisted by his son Henry in the store at 176 High Street, Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland. In 1836 Henry inherited the store on the death of his father and began trading under the name Henry Binns. [2] He was a member of the anti-slavery movement and sold only cotton grown by free labour. By 1844 the shop had moved from 176 to 173 High ...
During the century the size of ships being built increased and technologies evolved: in 1852 the first iron ship was launched on Wearside, built by marine engineer George Clark in partnership with shipbuilder John Barkes. [71] Thirty years later Sunderland's ships were being built in steel [36] (the last wooden ship having been launched in 1880 ...
Sunderland (/ ˈ s ʌ n d ər l ə n d / ⓘ) is a port city [a] in Tyne and Wear, England. It is a port at the mouth of the River Wear on the North Sea, approximately 10 miles (16 km) south-east of Newcastle upon Tyne. The built-up area had a population of 168,277 at the 2021 census, making it the second largest settlement in North East ...
Like other parts of the North East, Wearside and Sunderland were economically structured by the primary and secondary sector of the economy; with a great deal of the economy once dependent on ship building at Sunderland Docks and coal mining with large collieries such as Monkwearmouth Colliery, which declined rapidly during the mid 20th century, many areas have long been deprived with vast ...
1634 – Bishop Morton's Charter created Sunderland's first Mayor and Corporation. [1] West View of the Cast Iron Bridge over the River Wear at Sunderland. 1698 – Formation of Sunderland Company of Glassmakers; 1669 – Letters patent permitted the erection of a pier and lighthouse. [1] 1719 – Sunderland Parish's Holy Trinity Church opened
Whitburn is a village in South Tyneside, in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear on the coast of North East England.It is located 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the city of Sunderland and 4 miles (6.4 km) south of the town of South Shields.
In December 1954 the store burnt down and operated from temporary space until its present purpose-built building opened in 1956. As flames ripped through Joplings on 13 December 1954, 100 firefighters battled to save the 150-year-old store.