Nine pictures from Sunderland's Fordfield Road over the past 20 years, including a VIP visit

A focus on Fordfield Road: 9 photos from the last 20 years of the Sunderland street

What links an Irish music legend, a football club mascot, and the drums.

The answer is Fordfield Road in Sunderland and we looked through the Sunderland Echo archives to find all of these photos from the street.

There's a country music legend in town in 2007, and SAFC mascot Samson helped to open a toy library in 2004.

A let's drum up memories of a Highfield Community School music session in 2006.

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