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1969 – Sunderland Technical & Art Colleges merged to form Sunderland Polytechnic (now the University of Sunderland) 1970 – Opening of new Basil Spence-designed Sunderland Civic Centre by the Princess Margaret; 1971 – Sunderland Town Hall demolished. 1973 – Sunderland A.F.C. win the FA Cup for the second time
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens is a municipal museum in Sunderland, England. It contains the only known British example of a gliding reptile, the oldest known vertebrate capable of gliding flight. The exhibit was discovered in Eppleton quarry. The museum has a Designated Collection of national importance. [1]
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens was the first local authority museum outside London to be established following the Museums Act of 1846. Its first recorded fine art acquisition was a commission by the Sunderland to Mark Thompson, who was paid 30 guineas to record the opening of the new South Dock in 1850. This may be the first occasion in ...
Sunderland Art Gallery; Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens; W. Washington Old Hall This page was last edited on 9 December 2016, at 16:13 (UTC). ...
By 1840 the town had 76 shipyards and between 1820 and 1850 the number of ships being built on the Wear increased fivefold. From 1846 to 1854 almost a third of the UK's ships were built in Sunderland, and in 1850 the Sunderland Herald proclaimed the town to be the greatest shipbuilding port in the world. [70]
Sunderland Museum building (October 2016) The Sunderland Art Gallery is an art gallery based within the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens centre, in Sunderland City Centre. The collection of paintings includes works by the British artist, L.S. Lowry, many with local significance.
Sunderland Art Gallery; Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens This page was last edited on 30 July 2015, at 09:49 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Thomas Dixon (1831–1880) was a working class autodidact and literary correspondent of Sunderland in the north-east of England. A cork-cutter by trade, he lodged with a close friend of the head of the School of Art in Newcastle, William Bell Scott, and through this became acquainted with many of the artists later known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and others in their circle, including ...