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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.
In 2018 Sunderland was ranked as the best city to live and work in the UK by the finance firm OneFamily. [98] In the same year, Sunderland was ranked as one of the top 10 safest cities in the UK. [99] Many fine old buildings remain despite the bombing that occurred during World War II. [100]
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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]
A. & G. Taylor was a British photographic business, and manufacturer of cabinet cards and cartes de visite, and later picture postcards.. In 1866, the photographers Andrew Taylor (1832–1909) [1] and George Taylor opened their first studio in London's Cannon Street.
The Sunderland Echo is a daily newspaper serving the Sunderland, South Tyneside and East Durham areas of North East England. [2] The newspaper was founded by Samuel Storey, Edward Backhouse, Edward Temperley Gourley, Charles Palmer, Richard Ruddock, Thomas Glaholm and Thomas Scott Turnbull in 1873, as the Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette. [3]
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
The Sunderland yearbook of 1910 reports that Hodgson had garnered 2 gold medals and 5 silver medals during his lifetime. The local records of events (pub July 1866) [ 11 ] report that on 16 January 1856 "Joseph Hodgson, carver, Sunderland, received the silver medal of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in testimony of his extraordinary ...