My friend works in this Greggs and I can vouch that it is actually well known amongst staff that odd things go on, and several of them have had weird experiences!
Thank for showing your trip along Sea Road Love all your vids around that area :) as I used to live opposite ST Andrew’s church & is nice to revisit 😋 The unusual shaped building just down from the Blue Bell used to be the TSB bank
Thanks for your videos myself and late wife spent many great holidays in roker seaburn and whitburn bought back some lovely memories all be it tearful thanks once again colin London
We spent many a happy hour along Sea Rd as kids. I was sent frequently and often by parents and grand parents to buy screws, and various DIY bits. A few doors a long was a wonderful chippie and we would go in every Friday after coming out of the MIllview Club(other side of the Blue Bell) and ask for sausage and chips, to which we would be asked, large of small sausage. To which we would reply, large please, only to be told (without fail) no large 2 small do? The fruit shop on the corner was run by a Polish gent (?) who had a stuffed parrot on a perch above the door leading out the back. Next block is where Greggs is, that used to be the Ladybird shop, where we would be dragged to buy new clothes and shoes - Opposite the Ladybird there used to be an ice cream shop, next block on that side used to be a video shop, again we spent far too much time in there in the early 80s choosing videos we probably weren’t old enough to be watching. Next door were 2 wonderful bakers, Milburns (posh) and Cattericks(cheap and cheerful). Further along that block was the Post Office, which was run by a young guy called Paul (if memory serves). Opposite the supermarket, Liptons, was a wonderful butcher which did a wonderful savaloy dip, a few doors a long from that, (during late 70s) was a record shop, I bought the Star Wars theme tune there-I dont think it lasted very long. Next block along was Moodies(also referred to as Skips) which was basically a junk shop. I managed to buy an early Iron Maiden 7” there during my lunch hour from school, but old man Moodie has written 10p in big letters in ink in the middle of the sleeve. Opposite that was and still is, Alfred Pallas, we bought and sold every house we owned in Fulwell/Roker with him until we left Sunderland in 2001. I can never remember if the Toy Box was next to AP or the unit next to that. The Salvation Army shop used to be “Land of the Lost Giant”, which sold Dolls Houses and Books, This was ours, until we moved. The name of the shop was in reference to a giant that was found up by the Mill in the 1800s - That is another mystery(If I can find the reference for it I will pass it on) Howards, was on the next block, where everyone went an bought electrical goods. I bough my first Sky dish from here. I used to sneak into the pub on the corner, the Flying Boat? When I was very young and ask if they had any beer mats I could have for my collection- I was always told to do one. The other side of the road was the lloyds, another wonderful butchers, Nevins the newsagent, next block down was Royals, a tuck shop were we would spend our pennies before and after school, which was opposite, Fulwell Jnrs. Is that still there or had it made way for houses? Anyway, apologies for the ramble and thanks for the video
Memories I went to Fulwell girls school along there and used to buy my ingredients from them shops for cookery lessons I left school in 1971 brilliant times there. Roker Avenue used to be very busy back in the 60s/70s I lived just off Roker Avenue in Victor st ,shame the way its turned out all turned into flats now😢.thankyou for sharing
So many happy memories of going in these shops with my mam when i was little but Hodgson's was the absolute best place in the world when I was a child (eighties kid here!) - I remember it as being a very old fashioned, traditional sweet shop with glass jars, old fashioned scales and wooden fixtures and fittings, but it changed in the early/mid nineties to how it looks on the inside now - I think it ceased been a sweet shop late nineties and became the card shop it is now. Anyway, definitely worth digging around to see if there's any old pics of how it used to look! 😊
Fantastic video, i remember hodgsons nip in there and by 10 BH, maxwells on the corner , Howards electrical shop, i worked in Laws supermarket in 1978-79 stacking shelves after school great times, Dewhurst the butchers further down, the fresh fish shop, and my favourite the pork shop ( taste it now Savoly Dip ) Trempass fish and chips over the road, and Billy Perrot Manager of the Blue Bell. Fantastic times.
I've played in the pub and the club and my house agent has an office in Sea Road. I often went shopping in this area with my girlfriend who lived in Fulwell.
It’s like looking through mist.
Thanks again for posting, your video's are always brilliant
My friend works in this Greggs and I can vouch that it is actually well known amongst staff that odd things go on, and several of them have had weird experiences!
Only odd experience in greggs is no change from 5quid for a sausage roll and a pasty 😂
Thank for showing your trip along Sea Road Love all your vids around that area :) as I used to live opposite ST Andrew’s church & is nice to revisit 😋
The unusual shaped building just down from the Blue Bell used to be the TSB bank
Another excellent video about Sunderlands very interesting history
Thanks for your videos myself and late wife spent many great holidays in roker seaburn and whitburn bought back some lovely memories all be it tearful thanks once again colin London
We spent many a happy hour along Sea Rd as kids. I was sent frequently and often by parents and grand parents to buy screws, and various DIY bits. A few doors a long was a wonderful chippie and we would go in every Friday after coming out of the MIllview Club(other side of the Blue Bell) and ask for sausage and chips, to which we would be asked, large of small sausage. To which we would reply, large please, only to be told (without fail) no large 2 small do? The fruit shop on the corner was run by a Polish gent (?) who had a stuffed parrot on a perch above the door leading out the back. Next block is where Greggs is, that used to be the Ladybird shop, where we would be dragged to buy new clothes and shoes -
Opposite the Ladybird there used to be an ice cream shop, next block on that side used to be a video shop, again we spent far too much time in there in the early 80s choosing videos we probably weren’t old enough to be watching. Next door were 2 wonderful bakers, Milburns (posh) and Cattericks(cheap and cheerful). Further along that block was the Post Office, which was run by a young guy called Paul (if memory serves).
Opposite the supermarket, Liptons, was a wonderful butcher which did a wonderful savaloy dip, a few doors a long from that, (during late 70s) was a record shop, I bought the Star Wars theme tune there-I dont think it lasted very long. Next block along was Moodies(also referred to as Skips) which was basically a junk shop. I managed to buy an early Iron Maiden 7” there during my lunch hour from school, but old man Moodie has written 10p in big letters in ink in the middle of the sleeve. Opposite that was and still is, Alfred Pallas, we bought and sold every house we owned in Fulwell/Roker with him until we left Sunderland in 2001. I can never remember if the Toy Box was next to AP or the unit next to that. The Salvation Army shop used to be “Land of the Lost Giant”, which sold Dolls Houses and Books, This was ours, until we moved. The name of the shop was in reference to a giant that was found up by the Mill in the 1800s - That is another mystery(If I can find the reference for it I will pass it on) Howards, was on the next block, where everyone went an bought electrical goods. I bough my first Sky dish from here.
I used to sneak into the pub on the corner, the Flying Boat? When I was very young and ask if they had any beer mats I could have for my collection- I was always told to do one. The other side of the road was the lloyds, another wonderful butchers, Nevins the newsagent, next block down was Royals, a tuck shop were we would spend our pennies before and after school, which was opposite, Fulwell Jnrs. Is that still there or had it made way for houses?
Anyway, apologies for the ramble and thanks for the video
Memories I went to Fulwell girls school along there and used to buy my ingredients from them shops for cookery lessons I left school in 1971 brilliant times there. Roker Avenue used to be very busy back in the 60s/70s I lived just off Roker Avenue in Victor st ,shame the way its turned out all turned into flats now😢.thankyou for sharing
Well done. Very informative as usual 👍🏻
I'll have a poltergeist and pasty please. 😁
So many happy memories of going in these shops with my mam when i was little but Hodgson's was the absolute best place in the world when I was a child (eighties kid here!) - I remember it as being a very old fashioned, traditional sweet shop with glass jars, old fashioned scales and wooden fixtures and fittings, but it changed in the early/mid nineties to how it looks on the inside now - I think it ceased been a sweet shop late nineties and became the card shop it is now. Anyway, definitely worth digging around to see if there's any old pics of how it used to look! 😊
Great 👍
Fantastic video, i remember hodgsons nip in there and by 10 BH, maxwells on the corner , Howards electrical shop, i worked in Laws supermarket in 1978-79 stacking shelves after school great times, Dewhurst the butchers further down, the fresh fish shop, and my favourite the pork shop ( taste it now Savoly Dip ) Trempass fish and chips over the road, and Billy Perrot Manager of the Blue Bell. Fantastic times.
I've played in the pub and the club and my house agent has an office in Sea Road. I often went shopping in this area with my girlfriend who lived in Fulwell.
I'd like a video about chester road. i lived there between 1957 and 1968. it didn't change in those 11 years. you're a great narrator.
Exce😅as usual,keep them coming lass❤
Thank you so much for sharing ❤
Frederick Street in south Shields will be a good one. Owlsons the pet shop use to have a pet monkey in the shop .
Would love to see history of Villette road. It was hustling & bustling once.
great videos and u should do a mustard video about it been from Durham
Could you look at pit village Castletown maybe, it would be much appreciated, thankyou.
That’s the Greg’s next to my school
Maybe Claude comes back for Greggs Sausage rolls , I would
Maxwell's was there for years! Gone now?
Maxwells is still on the corner at the lights👍
The whole place has a haunted look..desolation.desperation...disintegration
Its not haunted ' greggs has a shoplifter 🤣