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This is where they make the locally famous Villa range of pops. Ironically some local japesters lobbed a half-full can of Barr's Irn-Bru at us from their speeding 4X4 just prior to us finding this factory.
©MSX
One of the many industrial concerns clustered around the Riverside Road area.
©C G Burke
Looking east along Riverside Road, home to much light industry.
©C G Burke
Dist:0.3km<br/>The area seen in the photo used to be a shipbuilding slipway in the Austin and Pickersgill Shipyard until the yard was closed in 1988 (the river Wear is behind the photographer). The yard was subsequently demolished and converted into an 'Enterprise Park' (office / light factory space for small businesses) which is what you see in the photo.
©Brian Abbott
Dist:0.4km<br/>Leaving Silverbriar.
©Steve Fareham
Dist:0.4km<br/>Single-storey 2-bedroom houses, typical of many in this area and dating from the turn of the 20th century.
©Brian Abbott
Dist:0.5km<br/>This deep undersea coal mine was in operation from 1835 to 1993. The site is now occupied by the Stadium of Light, the home of Sunderland AFC.
©Robert W Watt
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©Roger Smith
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©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.7km<br/>Very well tended. In the middle of a large council housing estate.
©Brian Abbott
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©Steve Fareham
Dist:0.7km<br/>Formerly the railway approach to Queen Alexandra Bridge, this viaduct now stands in rather forlorn isolation.
©Antony Dixon
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©Alexander P Kapp
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©trevor willis
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©Alexander P Kapp

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