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RIP Gary Rowell. My first ever football hero.

🎶 We all live in a Gary Rowell world 🎶
December 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
We still live in a Gary Rowell world, a Gary Rowell world, a Gary Rowell world…
❤️🤍❤️🤍
December 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Lovely people, doing lovely things, in the loveliest place… get yourselves along & feel lovely!!
November 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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"I am a Jew supporting the Maccabi ban: There must be no foul play in local democracy" 👏👏👏
I am a Jew supporting the Maccabi ban: There must be no foul play in local democracy
The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending the Aston Villa game
sussexbylines.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Female welders, Sunderland shipyards, 1943.
October 12, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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On this day in 1844 the foundation stone was laid for Penshaw Monument in Tyne and Wear.

Officially, it is called the Earl of Durham's Monument and is a replica of the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens. It's such a beloved landmark that appears on the badge of Sunderland Football Club.
August 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Welders, Sunderland shipyards, 1943.
August 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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200 years ago today 3 sailors and 4 onlookers were shot dead by troops in Sunderland. I've been working with local historians and David Gordon Scott (OU) to raise awareness of this little-known massacre. Today we gathered to mark the bicentenary with speeches and the naming of the dead. (1/2)
August 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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RMT at the North Sands Massacre 200th commemoration held in Sunderland yesterday.
The event marked the 200th anniversary of the day five striking seafarers were shot dead by soldiers during an industrial dispute in Sunderland.
You can read more here:
rmtunion.org/41ojeVq
August 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Blog update: The Toy Dolls "Nellie The Elephant" was the NME Indie Chart's 1984 Christmas number one, and sat just behind Band Aid, Wham! and Paul McCartney in the national charts. How did a punk band from Sunderland achieve this, and was this the last ever first/second wave punk hit?
56. Toy Dolls - Nellie The Elephant (Volume)
All the singles to top the NME Indie Charts since its launch in 1981, complete with an overview of the other music in the charts each week.
indienumber1s.blogspot.com
July 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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From 1913, a curator at Sunderland Museum organised handling sessions for the blind, first offering an invitation to the children from the Sunderland Council Blind School then extending the invitations to adults: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sessions-for-the-blind-at-sunderland-museum
July 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Happy 1st Birthday to Sunderland Music City musiccity.uk

What a year it has been - and we are only just starting.
June 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Happy 90th Birthday to 🇬🇧British stage, radio, film and television actor and narrator #JamesBolam MBE, born #OnThisDay in Sunderland, England

#filmsky #tvsky #moviesky
June 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Ha’way The Lads !!!
#SAFC
#TilTheEnd
May 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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I’m having my regular rewatch of Meanwhile Back In Sunderland. A sacred document if you’re a Sunderland fan. A remarkable document of the time even if you’re not #SAFC

m.youtube.com/watch?v=nV4x...
Meanwhile back in Sunderland
YouTube video by tommorowhill
m.youtube.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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William Daniell, Sunderland Pier, Durham, 1822
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1125256
March 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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After Newcastle end their 70-year wait for a domestic trophy, you have to say that football (authorities allowing authoritarian regimes with appalling human rights records to own top-flight clubs) is the winner.
March 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Edward Gregson is an English composer of instrumental and choral music, particularly for brass and wind bands and ensembles, as well as music for the theatre, film, and television. He was also principal of the Royal Northern College of Music.

He was born in Sunderland in 1945.

edwardgregson.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Delighted to welcome the Lord-Lieutenant of Tyne & Wear and Mayor of Sunderland to The Fire Station to unveil a new plaque commemorating the beginning of the world scouting movement on 22nd Feb 1908 when Baden-Powell inspected the first scout parade on Garrison Field at the rear of the Fire Station
February 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Revisit Museum Vaults, Sunderland. A low key classic that deserves more love. Tempted to stay n watch game on 80's Bush TV. Beer like gin n tonic. Top crisp round from Daddy B.
February 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Industrial Scene (South Hetton Colliery, near Sunderland), by John Wilson Carmichael, 1799-1868 (Nottingham City Museums & Galleries). #NorthernArt
February 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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A young #Sunderland fan expresses his jubilation after buying his tickets for The Rokerites' 1973 #FACup, 5th Rnd replay versus #ManchesterCity at the old Roker Park. And things would soon get better for the Wearsiders. #Wembley awaited ...
February 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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"The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights."
— Timothy Snyder
January 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Let’s start the New Year as we mean to go - with music everywhere in the City.

2025 is going to be an amazing year for music in Sunderland.

#SunderlandMusicCity

youtu.be/fHkQHehwjuU?...
Welcome To Sunderland Music City
YouTube video by Sunderland Music City
youtu.be
January 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM