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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 ...
In 1879, the Museum moved to a new larger building next to Mowbray Park including a library and winter garden based on the model of the Crystal Palace. U.S. President Ulysses Grant was in attendance at the laying of the foundation stone by Alderman Samuel Storey in 1877. The building opened in 1879. [3]
Sunniside is the centre’s closest residential area. With merchant terraces and Mowbray Park to the south. It extents from Fawcett Street to the A1018. The area contains Sunderland Empire Theatre and the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens.
Monkwearmouth Station Museum; Mowbray Park; National Glass Centre; North East Aircraft Museum; Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art; Penshaw Monument; Roker Park; Roker beach ; Ryhope Engines Museum; Seaburn beach ; Souter Lighthouse; Sunderland Empire Theatre; Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens; Stadium of Light; Sunderland Volunteer Life ...
Museums in the City of Sunderland (8 P) Pages in category "Tourist attractions in the City of Sunderland" ... Mowbray Park; N.
This resulted in the erection of a headstone in Holy Trinity, Sunderland churchyard in 1888. Two years later public donations led to a monument being erected in Mowbray Park, opposite what is now Sunderland Civic Centre. A pub in Monkwearmouth was named the Jack Crawford and sported a carved figure of him on the side of the building.
Donations sent from all over Britain totalled £5,000 (equivalent to £636,096 in 2023 [8]) and were used for the children's funerals and a memorial in Mowbray Park. The memorial of a grieving mother holding a dead child was later moved to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, where it gradually fell into disrepair and was vandalised. In 2002, the marble ...
The memorial to the Victims of the Victoria Hall Disaster in Mowbray Park. Victoria Hall was a large concert hall on Toward Road facing Mowbray Park. The hall was the scene of a tragedy on 16 June 1883 when 183 children died. [72] During a variety show, children rushed towards a staircase for treats. [73]