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World War 2/7 War in Sunderland


2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry march along Bridge Street (jpg)

7th Battalion Durham Light Infantry march into park (jpg)

Air Raid precautions (jpg)

Austin's dry dock (jpg)

Beehive Corner 1939 (jpg)

Binns blitzed Binns Blitzed(jpg)

Binns bombed (jpg)

Blitzed (jpg)

Bomb crater (jpg)                                                                             Bombing in Southwick October 1941 (jpg)

Bombsite1 (jpg)

Britannia Pub in Cleadon (jpg)

Damage to Josephs sports shop (jpg)

Direct hit Sunderland railway station (jpg)

Distressing Task for a Wearside woman looking through rubble (jpg)

Doxford Shipyard Fire Fighters (jpg)

Evacuee's at registration (jpg)

Evacuee on Millfield Station (jpg)

Fenwicks brewery bombed (jpg)

Fulwell bombed (jpg)

Fulwell crossing bombed 1943 (jpg)

Fulwell family saved by using Morrison type shelter 1941 (jpg)

Game Off Roker Park home of Sunderland FC bombed 1943 (jpg)

Gas masks 1 (jpg)

Gas masks 2 (jpg)

Helping the war effort a parade through Sunderland, Doxford shipyard float (jpg)

Humbledon, bombed Anderson shelter (jpg)

Joseph's sports shop bombed (jpg)

Lockharts Cafe bombed (jpg)

Lodge Terrace, Sunderland bombed (jpg)

Military Burial of German aircrew at Castletown Cemetery (jpg)

Monkwearmouth bombsite 1943 15 people killed (jpg)

Morrison Shelter (jpg)

Perils of war, Monty Joseph examines damage to his shop (jpg)

Railway Station after bomb hit 1940 (jpg)

River Wear (jpg)

River Wear, Monkwearmouth Bridge (jpg)

Running on gas, A gas powered bus (jpg)

Smiling through, Women and young lads were drafted into shipyards (jpg)

South Bents, bombed and restored (jpg)

Southwick bombed (jpg)

Southwick family bombed (jpg)

St George's Square Sunderland after bombing (jpg)

St Thomas's Church after bombing (jpg)

Station blast (jpg)

Suffolk Street after bombing (jpg)

Sunderland station after being bombed September 5/6 1940 (jpg)

The Warden Door, from Bishopwearmouth Rectory (jpg)

Tragedy at Pallion (jpg)

Train Station 1 (jpg)

Train Station 2 (jpg)

Train Station 3 (jpg)

U-Boat brought into River Wear (jpg)

Union Street bombing (jpg)

Unknown bombsite (jpg)

Unknown bombed Street (jpg)

VE Day in Mowbray Park 1945 (jpg)

Victoria Hall bombing 1941 (jpg)

War Memorial (jpg)

Warship Week (jpg)

Wearside at War, Binns 1941 (jpg)

Welding in shipyards (jpg)

Winter Gardens glass shattered (jpg)

Winter Gardens (jpg)

Women shipyard workers (jpg)

Women at work in the shipyards (jpg)

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