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

1592 Articles
20 days ago
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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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20 days ago
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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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20 days ago
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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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20 days ago
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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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20 days ago
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Seven pictures of sponsored silence events in Sunderland, from 1975 to 2015

Say it quietly. We have a whole load of reminders of the sponsored silences you’ve done in Sunderland.

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21 days ago
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Nine curious Sunderland faces from the past - including the fire eater, Bollywood star, and body ...

They set world records, appeared on TV and tackled incredible odds for charity

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21 days ago
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Nine pictures from Sunderland's East Herrington Primary School taken between 2005 and 2012

Scenes from shows and students who visited the USA

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21 days ago
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An arrangement of 11 florists we've known and loved in Sunderland and County Durham

Scenes from Ashbrooke, Fulwell, South Hylton and Hetton

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21 days ago
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On board HMS Ocean in Sunderland: Nine times we photographed people visiting city's adopted ship

Memories from 2003, 2004, 2009, 2012 and 2017

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23 days ago
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Remembering the 11-plus exam, and how it played out in Sunderland

Under the spotlight in the 1970s

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23 days ago
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Nine pictures of Sunderland children getting messy, featuring mud, slime, dough, beans and more

It’s a feast of ice cream, beans and jelly

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23 days ago
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Nine pictures of Argos staff in Sunderland from 2004 to 2014

Crazy hats, cyclists and Teddy Bears getting married

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