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

1615 Articles
6 days ago
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The little Sunderland cottage which stood on a hill made out of ship waste

The cottage stood on a hill made of ballast

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6 days ago
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11 fabulous photos from Sunderland's Ropery Walk Primary School from 2005 to 2016

A school where curling goes side by side with smoothies

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7 days ago
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The golden age of the train in Sunderland, and the huge rail cutbacks of 1964

60 years ago today: A golden age captured on film

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7 days ago
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Nine memorable photos of McDonald's staff in Sunderland

It’s a feast of photos from the restaurants’ past

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7 days ago
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When Phil Drabble visited Sunderland, bringing tales of rat catching

He was the VIP visitor who regaled Wearsiders with tales of rat catching.

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Nine table tennis memories from Sunderland's past

Fancy a drive? We're travelling through Sunderland's streets in the 1970s

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When creatures invaded Sunderland - eels, jellyfish and sex-crazed spiders

Eels falling from the skies, killer flatworms and rare jellyfish

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Nine Sunderland spots where you met your friends before the age of the mobile - from the 'pushy b...

Yours might have been the pushy button machine in the bus station

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7 days ago
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11 super Sunderland shops of the 1980s, from Barkers to Allins

Allins, Barkers and Carneys - all in our 1980s gallery

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7 days ago
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When Sunderland welcomed US president and American Civil War hero Ulysses S Grant

Up to 16,000 people greeted him in Fawcett Street

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7 days ago
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Nine memorable pictures from Sunderland's Mere Knolls Road - including storms, sponsored bike rid...

It’s a 14-year span of Sunderland Echo archive scenes

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10 days ago
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21 of the best photos from Sunderland school days in the 1980s

Scenes from the classroom, playground and Christmas discos

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