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Sunderland Docks in 1969.

Sunderland Docks is an area of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. Home to the Port of Sunderland, the docks have access to the North Sea. Sunderland City Council took over the port in 1972 and since then deindustrialisation has caused the port to decline.[1]

  1. ^ "Engineering Timelines - Sunderland South Docks". www.engineering-timelines.com. Archived from the original on 22 September 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2020.

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Sunderland Docks

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centre’s east end. It is home to the Town Moor, Sunderland Docks and the former Sunderland Barracks. The area’s north is also called the East End while...

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Hendon Dock Junction Bridge was a bridge within Sunderland Docks, England. It was unique for being made of aluminium, rather than the more usual steel...

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History of Sunderland

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List of ports in Great Britain

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Berwick-upon-Tweed Warkworth Blyth Port of Tyne, South Shields Sunderland Docks, Sunderland Seaham Hartlepool Teesport, Middlesbrough Redcar Middlesbrough...

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Monkwearmouth

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active today. Monkwearmouth is across the river from the Port of Sunderland at Sunderland Docks. The locals of the area were called "Barbary Coasters". The...

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Sunderland Lifeboat Station

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around the docks at Sunderland, from Roker down to Hendon Dock, by the following organisations: Sunderland Lifeboat Committee Sunderland Harbour Authority...

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Wearside

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with a great deal of the economy once dependent on ship building at Sunderland Docks and coal mining with large collieries such as Monkwearmouth Colliery...

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Shipyard

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260 ft). Sunderland, County Durham a town once hailed as the "Largest Shipbuilding Town in the World". ships were built at the Sunderland Docks from at...

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Mark Sheridan

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later career. Sheridan was born in Hendon, Sunderland, County Durham, and initially worked on the Sunderland docks before being employed at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne...

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Wearside Football League

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that one early club had no pitch but instead played on the sands by Sunderland Docks, and another had to play with an old rugby ball as they could not afford...

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Port of Liverpool

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part of the Port of Liverpool. The working docks are operated by Mersey Docks and Harbour Company, the docks to the south of the Pier Head are operated...

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Pembroke Dock

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the European Union and now serves as the Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre run by Pembroke Dock Sunderland Trust. A few buildings on the site of the old Llanion...

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Durham Coast Line

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both directions, near to the Metro station at Brockley Whins. The docks at Sunderland were recently reconnected by Network Rail, in the anticipation of...

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Durham Coast

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Durham Coast include Hartlepool Headland[citation needed], Seaham, Sunderland Docks and Whitburn Beach. The area included in the SSSI includes six Geological...

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George Hudson

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Britannica. Vol. XII (9th ed.). 1881. p. 332. "The Railway King: George Hudson", historyofyork.org.uk A history of Sunderland Docks mentioning the Hudson docks...

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B roads in Zone 1 of the Great Britain numbering scheme

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Originally allocated to a route from the A19 (now the A1018) to the Sunderland docks; became a portion of A183 when the Durham Coast Road was built. Part...

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Sunderland Barracks

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Sunderland Barracks was a military installation in the old east end of Sunderland, built as part of the British response to the threat of the French Revolution...

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Port of Grimsby

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was opened on Alexandra Dock in 1975. James Rendel was requested to draw up plans for new docks in 1843. His design placed docks on the extensive mudflats...

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North Dock Tufa

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North Dock Tufa is a small dome-shaped petrified well, with stalactites and stalagmites, tucked away behind the Marine Activities Centre at Sunderland marina...

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Sunderland station

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coast, the terminus, known as Town Moor was located near South Dock. The Durham and Sunderland Railway Company slowly extended their route towards the intended...

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