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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 Museum contains a large collection of the locally made Sunderland Lustreware pottery. [7] Other highlights of the Museum are a stuffed Lion which was acquired in 1879, [8] the remains of a walrus brought back from Siberia in the 1880s and the first Nissan car to be made in Sunderland. [9]
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, on Borough Road, was the first municipally funded museum in the country outside London. [64] It houses a comprehensive collection of the locally produced Sunderland Lustreware pottery. The City Library Arts Centre, on Fawcett Street, housed the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art until the library was ...
Mowbray Park is a municipal park in the centre of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, located a few hundred yards from the busy thoroughfares of Holmeside and Fawcett Street and bordered by Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens to the north, Burdon Road to the west, Toward Road to the east and Park Road to the south. The park was voted best in ...
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In 1987 it was loaned to Sunderland Museum and put on display in the local history gallery but has been returned to the owner. The Museum holds Jack Crawford in high regard. There was an exhibition about him on the bicentenary of the Battle of Camperdown and there was a display about him in SeaBritain Year (2005).
Sunderland’s co-owner seemed to be voicing the lament of the executives of a streaming giant.“I think Roy Keane would have been fun, definitely good for the Netflix series,” said Juan ...
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]