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1831 – (October); the first UK outbreak of cholera occurred in Sunderland – 200 people died. [4] 1832 – Sunderland became a parliamentary borough under the Reform Act, returning two members of Parliament. [1] 1835 – St Mary's Church, Sunderland completed. 1835/6 – Establishment of the modern Borough Council, with the first modern Mayor
In 1886–90 Sunderland Town Hall was built in Fawcett Street, just to the east of the railway station, to a design by Brightwen Binyon. [24] By 1889 two million tons of coal per year was passing through Hudson Dock, [58] while to the south of Hendon Dock, the Wear Fuel Works distilled coal tar to produce pitch, oil and other products. [59]
Religious buildings include Holy Trinity Church, built in 1719 for an independent Sunderland, St Michael's Church, built as Bishopwearmouth Parish Church and now known as Sunderland Minster and St Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth, part of which dates from AD 674, and was the original monastery.
Most of the houses in Ford Estate were built in the 1930s and 1940s, [1] and most of the street names begin with the letter F, and also contain the word ford in them, examples of this are Falmouth Road, Fordham Road, Fordfield Road and Falkland Road. Residents also have access to the nearby Pallion Metro Station which is located in Pallion.
St Andrew's Church, built 1905–07, is recognised as one of the finest churches of the first half of the twentieth century and the masterpiece of Edward Schroeder Prior. One well-known landmark of sorts in Roker is the Bungalow Cafe , which is an old-fashioned café in a tiny bungalow on the upper promenade.
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 ...
Sunderland City Centre is part of the Sunderland Central parliamentary constituency.. For local elections, it is currently divided between three wards of the city council. The majority of the city centre, lying to the west of Fawcett Street and the north of Holmeside, is located in Millfield wa
Road access to South Hylton is via one road, Hylton Bank. The road starts at nearby Pennywell, becoming High Street at the heart of the village, and ends at the riverbank. A railway line once ran from Sunderland to Durham from the 1850s until 1964, when the track from nearby Penshaw to Sunderland was removed following the Beeching Axe.