Sunderland Echo
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The Sunderland Echo is a daily newspaper serving the Sunderland, South Tyneside and East Durham areas of North East England. The newspaper was founded by Samuel Storey, Edward Backhouse, Edward Temperley Gourley, Charles Palmer, Richard Ruddock, Thomas Glaholm and Thomas Scott Turnbull in 1873, as the Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette. Designed to provide a platform for the Radical views held by Storey and his partners, it was also Sunderland's first local daily paper.
Sunderland Echo
Echo newspapers being loaded into vans at the Bridge Street printing works
Sub-editors checking facts and news stories at the Bridge Street office in the 1960s
The pre-war days of hot metal newspaper production at the Echo
City of Sunderland
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Sunderland, also known as the City of Sunderland, is a metropolitan borough with city status in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, England. It is named after its largest settlement, Sunderland, spanning a far larger area, including nearby towns including Washington, Hetton-le-Hole and Houghton-le-Spring, as well as the surrounding villages and hamlets. The district also forms a large majority of Wearside which includes Chester-le-Street in County Durham.
Sunderland White Lighthouse
Washington, the largest town in the district
Houghton-le-Spring, one of the towns of the district
Hetton-le-Hole, one of the towns of the district