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Old Sunderland, credited.

The black-and-white photographs on this site show Sunderland and Roker between 1886 and 1949. Here is where each one comes from.

Most of these images are shared by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums through Flickr Commons, mirrored on Wikimedia Commons. Thank you to them for keeping the city's history open to everyone.

  • Roker Pier curving out to sea beyond the balustraded promenade, with a steam train on the pier, a crane at its end and tugs on the water.

    Roker Pier and promenade, 1899.

    Date
    1899
    Credit
    Cassier's Magazine, 1899 (public domain; credit optional).
    Licence
    Public domain (published 1899, author Joseph Horner)
    Source
    Wikimedia Commons
  • A crowd in hats and long coats stands on the stone end of Roker Pier beneath a huge steel crane, with waves breaking below.

    Crowds gather on the unfinished Roker Pier to watch a block laid during the Channel Fleet visit, 1895.

    Date
    10 September 1895
    Credit
    Courtesy of Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.
    Licence
    No known copyright restrictions (Flickr Commons)
    Source
    Wikimedia Commons
  • Workmen guide a huge stone block into place on Roker Pier while onlookers in top hats watch from the crane platform above.

    Laying a 45 ton block on Roker Pier, 1895.

    Date
    10 September 1895
    Credit
    Courtesy of Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.
    Licence
    No known copyright restrictions (Flickr Commons)
    Source
    Wikimedia Commons
  • Workers on a stepped pile of numbered concrete blocks at the start of Roker Pier, with a crane behind and barrels at their feet.

    Building Roker Pier, 1886.

    Date
    29 October 1886
    Credit
    Courtesy of Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.
    Licence
    No known copyright restrictions (Flickr Commons)
    Source
    Wikimedia Commons
  • The steel arch of Wearmouth Bridge over the River Wear, with a collier moored in the foreground and quays and houses beyond.

    Wearmouth Bridge on a postcard from around 1930.

    Date
    c. 1930
    Credit
    Courtesy of Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.
    Licence
    No known copyright restrictions (Flickr Commons)
    Source
    Wikimedia Commons
  • Aerial view of Wearmouth Bridge crossing the River Wear, with ships at the quays, railway sidings and rows of terraced streets.

    Wearmouth Bridge and the riverside from the air, 1949.

    Date
    May 1949
    Credit
    Courtesy of Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (TWAM DT.TUR/2/2927F).
    Licence
    No known copyright restrictions (Flickr Commons)
    Source
    Wikimedia Commons
  • Two steamships with tall funnels and masts moored at Manor Quay on the River Wear, with small boats and chimneys in the mist behind.

    Two Sunderland-built ships side by side at Manor Quay, around 1888.

    Date
    c. 1888
    Credit
    Courtesy of Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (TWAM DS.JLT/4/PH/1/224/2/2).
    Licence
    No known copyright restrictions (Flickr Commons)
    Source
    Wikimedia Commons
  • A line of women shipyard workers in caps and overalls meet King George V in naval uniform, with men watching from the slipway behind.

    Women at work in a Wear shipyard greet the King, June 1917.

    Date
    15 June 1917
    Credit
    Courtesy of Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (DS.LG/5/1/1 pg127a).
    Licence
    No known copyright restrictions (Flickr Commons)
    Source
    Wikimedia Commons