Watch: The Sunderland of the Shipyard Girls - highlights from the walking tour

Name: The Sunderland of The Shipyard Girls - highlights from the walking tour
Uploaded: 2022-12-15T15:04:52.000Z
Duration: 646 s
Description: Historian and writer Ian Mole takes us on a whistle-stop tour of some of the sites on his Shipyard Girls walking tour, inspired by the popular series of historical fiction books by Sunderland author Amanda Revell Walton, who writes as Nancy Revell

Where they worked, where they married – and where they lived.

By Graham Murray

Published 15th Dec 2022, 16:30 BST

Updated 15th Dec 2022, 16:44 BST

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Even where they went for a slap-up meal on a special occasion.

Fans of the popular Shipyard Girls books by bestelling Sunderland author Amanda Revell Walton, who writes as Nancy Revell, can walk in the footsteps of the fictional lasses.

Historian and writer Ian Mole is our guide as he takes us around some of the sites on his walking tour inspired by the twelve-book series.

Even as the city changes around us, those traces of the past are always there to see.

Sunderland