The Slipway, on Blackwood Road at Town End Farm, was one of two pubs built on the estate in the 1960s (the other was the Schooner) with both now demolished.The Slipway, on Blackwood Road at Town End Farm, was one of two pubs built on the estate in the 1960s (the other was the Schooner) with both now demolished.
The Slipway, on Blackwood Road at Town End Farm, was one of two pubs built on the estate in the 1960s (the other was the Schooner) with both now demolished.

Sunderland's pubs of the past as we look at hostelries which have closed in the last 50 years

The changing face of Sunderland has meant the end for some Wearside pubs.

In the last half century or so, around two hundred public houses in Sunderland have closed. Many went in the 1960s in the redevelopment schemes in the East End, Hendon, Monkwearmouth and the ton centre.

In recent years, social and economic factors have seen another spate of pub closures.

“Even some of the new pubs built during this era have now gone,” said Philip Curtis of the Sunderland Antiquarian Society.

Today, we look back at some of those lost pubs. Our thanks go to Philip and Sunderland Antiquarian Society. To find out more about the society, visit its Facebook page or its website at http://www.sunderland-antiquarians.org/