SHOPPING IN SUNDERLAND

ARCADE

FAWCETT STREET

HIGH STREET

The Arcade just off High St was popular with Wearside shoppers. Palmers Store was the dominant retailer and it became known as Palmers Arcade. Sadly it is no longer there.

In the mid nineteenth century Fawcett Street was a high class residential area, but in the early 20th century became the centre of the towns commercial business

High Street has been a shopping area since the bridge was built in 1796. It still remains a busy street with many of the major shops being there

UNION STREET MARKET

Union Street was at the back of Fawcett Street. It was a busy market being in the town centre and opposite the railway station. When the streets around were demolished in the 1960's to make way for a shopping precinct and a bus station the open market disappeared. The area is being revamped again for the year 2000 and a new indoor market will open.

PALLION AND MILLFIELD

W H Garbert was a grocers and provisions shop in St Lukes Road Pallion. The shop was opened in the late 19th century. a few years later he opened a confectioners next door. The picture above shows his staff outside the door about 1905. My great grandparents Charles and Mary Elizabeth Carr lived in this area at this time and no doubt would have shopped there frequently. Garberts survived until the 1950's when it was taken over by Mrs C Giblin.
	GARBERTS DELIVERY SERVICE Garberts horse and cart made deliveries from the shops to the customers. The most busiest time would be Christmas Eve when the driver would still be delivering well into the night sometimes in dreadful weather. About 1930 the horse and cart was replaced by a van.
	HALDONS OFF LICENCE James Haldon's off licence shop was in Crescent Row Millfield. He ran the shop from 1882 till his death in 1918. My great grandparents Charles and Mary Elizabeth Carr lived in this Street from their marriage in 1885 and my grandfather John Edward Carr was born in there in September 1885. No doubt Charles would go there and get his supply of "ale"

MONKWEARMOUTH

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WHEATSHEAF CORNER

The Wheatsheaf was a public house on the corner of Roker Avenue and North Bridge Street both busy shopping streets at the time. The lighthouse on the top of the corner shop opposite the pub was a familiar sight. It has since been removed and the building demolished.

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PRATTS GROCERS

Mr Pratt and his wife ran the shop in Roker Avenue. The picture was taken about 1910. Being one of the main shopping streets in Monkwearmouth at the time my grandmother Mary Ann McQuillan and my great grandmother Isabella Greenwood would have done their shopping here.

HENDON AND THE EAST END

OLD MARKET

The old market which was opened in 1830 was at the bottom of High Street East. It was close to the docks and the ferry. People from Monkwearmouth would come across on the ferry on a Saturday to buy their meat, fish, vegetables and clothing. The market was still in existence as late as the 1950's. When the ferries ceased in 1957 the quick access to the market by Monkwearmouth people stopped. It would mean the people of Monkwearmouth would have to take two buses or a long walk over the bridge and down High Street bank.

HENDON ROAD

Hendon road was the local shopping center for the people living in the Hendon area. It was a busy shopping area and provided people with the essential shops such as fruiters, bakers, butchers, etc. My grandmother Margaret Isabella Johnson did all her shopping here on her way back from working in the local rope works.

FISHQUAY

The fishing boats would come into the Fish Quay in the East End with their catch. The local fish wives could be seen gutting and filleting the fish ready for market. The local cats were always loitering about waiting for the scraps to be thrown to them. There was also another fish quay on the Monkwearmouth side of the river. My great grandmother Isabella Greenwood worked on this quay as a fish hawker selling the fish from her baskets.

DELIVERY ROUNDS

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SNAITH'S MILK ROUND PALLION

The picture shows milk being delivered in Pallion by horse and cart in the 1940's. At this time milk was delivered in bottles previously it would have been measured out direct from the churns. The horse and cart was soon to be replaced by electric milk floats.

LAUNDRY ROUNDS

Before washing machines people would send there washing to the laundry. Some were for dry cleaning and the ordinary washing was called "bagwash". The woman would leave it out in a pillow case and the laundry man would collect it and then two or three days later would return it. My father in law Edward McLoughlin was a laundry man from 1921 to 1972 with the Central Laundry in Fulwell.

FUNERALS

The picture shows a funeral cortege in 1928. The hearse was horse drawn and funerals were conducted in this manner until the introduction of the motor driven hearse. In those days the mourners would walk behind the hearse to the church for burial. The undertaker wore a top hat and carried a cane. The Stephensons and Johnsons in my family tree were undertakers in the Millfield. area.