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BRAVE MEN: Members of No. 3 Platoon, A Company, 10th Battalion of Durham Light Infantry pictured in Aldershot 1915 just before being deployed to France.

A young life cut short

A VISIT to a memorial for missing soldiers has prompted a tribute to a Wearside war hero.

ALL SMILES: Red House Junior School Football Team of 1965.

Old Sunderland school pictures video

IT’S back to the blackboard thanks to Wearside Echoes readers – who have provided another bumper bundle of class photos.

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SLIDESHOW: Photographs from our readers video

Your Views from w/c May 13

PORTRAIT PICTURE: Winston Cole pictured during the war.

Sunderland’s wartime hero of the air video

Nostalgia writer Sarah Stoner today pays tribute to a fearless Wearside war hero

WAITING SCENE: The site of the Empire Theatre before it was built. The Dun Cow pub can just be seen on the right.

Great buildings of Sunderland’s past video

SUNDERLAND’S greatest architectural successes of the Edwardian Renaissance – from libraries to theatres and fire stations – are to be spotlighted in a special talk.

Opinion

Letters, Monday, May 20, 2013

Marathon made for a great day

Letters, Saturday, May 18, 2013

Working to help the town shine

Letters, Friday, May 17, 2013

We owe huge debt of gratitude to Pat

Letters, Thursday, May 16, 2013

Put people and their needs first

Letters, Monday May 13, 2013

The war on illegal tobacco not over

Your View

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SLIDESHOW: Photographs from our readers video

Your Views from w/c April 29

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SLIDESHOW: Photographs from our readers video

Your Views from w/c April 22

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SLIDESHOW: Photographs from our readers video

Your Views from w/c April 15

Nostalgia

Sunderland’s wartime hero of the air

PORTRAIT PICTURE: Winston Cole pictured during the war.

BYGONE DAYS: Wearmouth Bridge - where Meggie Darling sold her home-made toffees.

Sticky end for Sunderland toffee seller

TODAY we take a trip back in time to Victorian Sunderland to look at how a toffee seller came to a sticky end.

WWII Lumberjills. Ethel Oliver is right, backrow.

Remembering Sunderland’s Lumber Jills

VOLUNTEERS are being sought to go back to nature.

Hetton Silver band 1947

Band hall moved brick-by-brick to Beamish video

A building of note will open this week – for the second time in a century. Nostalgia writer Sarah Stoner takes a look.

Glass blowing no date old ref number 15-1661

SLIDESHOW: Sunderland memories immortalised in glass video

Today nostalgia writer Sarah Stoner raises a glass to a new history project.

Announcements

T Tyrrell : Birthday memorial

Published in the Sunderland Echo on 18 May 2013

Marie Donaghy : Acknowledgement

Published in the Sunderland Echo on 18 May 2013

Ernest Mordey : Acknowledgement

Published in the Sunderland Echo on 18 May 2013

Ken Witherington : Acknowledgement

Published in the Sunderland Echo on 18 May 2013

Holly Gibson-Lillie : Birth

Published in the Sunderland Echo on 18 May 2013

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