It has seen everything from air raids in the Second World War to FA Cup homecoming parades. And let’s not forget the dozens of people we got in the picture while our Sunderland Echo photographers captured it all.
Here are 13 memories from the street. See how many you remember.
5. Dreadful conditions
Taken just after midday on a 1963 day on the Durham to Sunderland road. | se
6. Making changes in 1972
Tree Felling at Burn Park in December 1972. It was part of a scheme to widen and improve New Durham Road, at a cost of nearly £400,000. | se Photo: Sunderland Echo
7. Fans in their thousands
Look at the crowds on Durham Road near the Board Inn. Here comes the bus with the FA Cup winning Sunderland team on it in 1973. | se Photo: Sunderland Echo
8. So much fun in 1981
Children on the Durham Road Residents float won the cup for the most professional float in 1981. They won it with a nursery rhyme theme. | se Photo: Sunderland Echo