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

1648 Articles
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21 pictures from school days in Sunderland in the 1980s

Back in time for views from Thorney Close to Thornhill - and much more

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about 1 month ago
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A line-up of golden Sunderland connections to Britain's Got Talent

Sunderland man reached the semi final with this act

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When Glen Miller and David Cassidy worked in a Sunderland store

When Glen Miller and Brenda Lee worked at a Sunderland store

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Seven pictures from Sunderland's Infinity bar as we remember the High Street West venue

Staff and regulars in the picture

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A sprinkling of magical memories from Sunderland to celebrate Unicorn Day

It’s a day for being magical and mythical

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Life in Sunderland in 1954: Event invites you to travel back 70 years

‘A fascinating, nostalgic evening showing the old town and its residents at work, rest and play’

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19 of the best pictures from Sunderland schooldays in the 1970s

Scenes from the classroom, gymnasium, playground, stage and day trips

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The day Binns was bombed in a Nazi air raid on Sunderland in 1941

Three famous landmarks were hit that year

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Sunderland's links with Aintree and the Grand National

Red and white links to the big race

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Nine Sunderland people who made the pages of the Echo in 2012

They spoke about the weather, the Metro and the university

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Mud, glorious mud in nine Sunderland scenes from the past

It’s a pretty mud selection of archive scenes

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The Sunderland doctor who built an aeroplane in his garage

A plane took shape in his garage

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