Parents and friends watch as children are evacuated from Chester Road schools in 1939.placeholder image
Parents and friends watch as children are evacuated from Chester Road schools in 1939. | se

13 photos from a retro journey along Chester Road in Sunderland

It’s one of Sunderland’s busiest streets and it has many decades of fascinating history behind it.

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