Chris Cordner Journalist
  • Bowburn
  • National World

40 years of service with the Sunderland Echo, Hartlepool Mail and Shields Gazette and passionate about sharing memories of the past across our proud communities.

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Sunderland Echo, Hartlepool Mail, Shields Gazette

Focus Areas

  • Nostalgia

2146 Articles
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10 years of Sunderland Christmases - see if you can remember what the number one was in each year...

Save your love for these festive Wearside memories from the 1980s.

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9 times that Sunderland people tried to break world records - from knitting to eyebrow-plucking

You love a world record bid in Sunderland. After all, you’ve had a go at everything from quoting Wordsworth to hula h...

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Christmas: The year when a runaway reindeer went on a 20-minute walkabout in Sunderland

They’re Santa’s best friends and they have certainly made the Sunderland Echo headlines over the years.

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Seven festive memories of Christmas Eve in Sunderland over the years

Santa Claus is coming to town and we are ticking the hours off with a look back to Christmases past.

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9 retro photos from Ryhope at Christmas. We've got Santa, lights and angelic choirs

Let it snow! And while it is, let’s have a look at Ryhope at Christmas in years gone by.

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On this day in Sunderland... Nine pictures from events which all happened on December 12

It’s the most wonderful time of the year – just like it was on this day in years gone by.

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Searching for the Sunderland cast of Robin of Sherwood - the Monkwearmouth panto from 1967

Were you a school panto star in 1967? Echo follower George Ford wants to hear from you.

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Pictures of Sunderland-born England star Jordan Pickford signing autographs in Washington Galleri...

One Jordan Pickford. And here is England’s number 1 on the day he signed books in Washington.

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11 Sunderland Fanzone memories of the last time England reached a World Cup quarter final in 2018

That was then. Can we do it again?

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Christmas in Sunderland: Remembering the must-have childhood toys on your Christmas list - the on...

What was the one Christmas present you always wanted but never got when you were little?

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Christmas in Sunderland: Nine shops you loved when you stocked up for a retro Christmas in Sunder...

Imagine it. Christmas is fast approaching and you’ve got a day to get everything you need at Sunderland’s shops of th...

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11 of your best memories of school Nativity plays in Sunderland - from the cute to the cringeworthy

Oh the scenes! Not everything always goes to plan in the school play.

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