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

1904 Articles
about 2 hours ago
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The days when they crammed picture-goers into the Cora cinema in Sunderland

What a picture house it was.

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about 3 hours ago
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Nine great memories from Sunderland's Church Street East over the years

There’s a Sunderland street where a famous sculpture, a Dunkirk Little Ship and a much-loved church organ shared the ...

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about 3 hours ago
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11 pictures of Pyrex workers in Sunderland on the day Prince Philip visited in 1963

It was a massive day at Pyrex and the streets of Sunderland were packed for it.

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about 3 hours ago
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Nine curious Sunderland and Durham place names, and where they came from - including Marley Pots,...

Here’s a poser for you. Where did Marley Pots get its name from. Or how about Shiney Row and Silksworth.

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about 3 hours ago
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Remembering Blacketts, and the Sunderland store boss who travelled to work in a dog cart

It was a shopping icon in Sunderland but Blacketts was consigned to history 52 years ago.

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about 19 hours ago
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Nine pictures capturing the colour of life in Castletown over the years

We love a look back at Sunderland’s neighbourhoods in times gone by. Here’s another one.

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about 21 hours ago
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The Sunderland 74-year-old who started the day with 400 abs exercises

Was this Sunderland’s fittest pensioner? Ron Dobinson was certainly a contender in the early 2000s.

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about 21 hours ago
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Wanted: Wearside people with a passion for sharing stories of their mining heritage

Washington’s mining history is at the centre of a new project.

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about 21 hours ago
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They were there: Sunderland people who watched the Aussies at Ashbrooke

One fell asleep, another remembered an appearance by a legend. Intrigued?

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about 21 hours ago
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Watch: 1960s footage of a Sunderland gymnast training for the Tokyo Olympics

Rare 1960s film footage of a Wearside gymnast training for the Olympics has been shared with the Sunderland Echo.

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1 day ago
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When Sunderland tried to have pie-throwing made an Olympic sport

A spectacle of top-class sport is getting under way with the start of the 2024 Olympics.

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1 day ago
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Cooking by gaslight: The Sunderland woman who defied modern methods for decades

Cooking by gaslight. It was still a thing in Sunderland less than 50 years ago.

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