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[[Image:JD 2017 Sunderland Mus16.jpg|thumb|Section of mooring rope, 3 ft | [[Image:JD 2017 Sunderland Mus16.jpg|thumb|Section of mooring rope, 3 ft circumference, made in 1951 by [[British Ropes]] of Roker for Barcelona Harbour]] | ||
[[Image:JD 2017 Sunderland Mus09.jpg|thumb|]] | [[Image:JD 2017 Sunderland Mus09.jpg|thumb|]] | ||
[[Image:JD 2017 Sunderland Mus13.jpg|thumb|Model of [[Doxford]] diesel engine]] | [[Image:JD 2017 Doxford4.jpg|thumb|Model of [[William Doxford and Sons|Doxford]] turret ship ''Queda'']] | ||
[[Image:JD 2017 Sunderland Mus13.jpg|thumb|Model of [[William Doxford and Sons|Doxford]] diesel engine, c.1924]] | |||
[[Image:JD 2017 Sunderland Mus17.jpg|thumb|Model of 'Empire Liberty'. The ship was built in Sunderland in 1941 by [[J. L. Thompson and Sons]] ]] | |||
[[Image:JD 2017 Sunderland Mus18.jpg|thumb|Oil lamp and optics from the Sunderland South Pier lighthouse, built by [[Thomas Meik]] in 1856. The lighthouse, having a wrought iron skin on a cast iron frame, was moved to Cliff Park, Roker, in 1982]] | |||
[[Image:JD 2017 Sunderland Mus05.jpg|thumb|Model of coal-handling collier. See detail below]] | |||
[[Image:JD 2017 Sunderland Mus06.jpg|thumb|]] | |||
[[Image:JD 2017 Sunderland Mus11.jpg|thumb|Clamp for splicing heavy duty ropes]] | |||
[[Image:JD 2017 Sunderland Mus22.jpg|thumb|Model marine boiler]] | |||
[[Image:JD 2017 Sunderland Mus10.jpg|thumb|Large Brown's Slide Rule for marine engineers]] | |||
[[Image:JD 2017 Sunderland Mus15.jpg|thumb|Model anchors]] | |||
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, in Burdon Road, Sunderland | Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, in Burdon Road, Sunderland | ||
A welcoming museum in the centre of Sunderland, providing a good reminder of Sunderland's vanished traditional industries. This is important, given that that strenuous efforts have been made in the city to eliminate tangible traces of those industries. | A welcoming museum in the centre of Sunderland, providing a good reminder of Sunderland's vanished traditional industries. This is important, given that that strenuous efforts have been made in the city to eliminate tangible traces of those industries which made Sunderland famous. | ||
[http://www.seeitdoitsunderland.co.uk/sunderland-museum-winter-gardens Museum website] | [http://www.seeitdoitsunderland.co.uk/sunderland-museum-winter-gardens Museum website] | ||
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[[Category: Things to do - Northumberland]] | [[Category: Things to do - Northumberland]] | ||
[[Category: Museums and Collections]] | [[Category: Museums and Collections]] | ||
[[Category: Town - Sunderland]] | |||
Latest revision as of 22:57, 20 March 2018
Section of mooring rope, 3 ft circumference, made in 1951 by British Ropes of Roker for Barcelona Harbour
Model of Doxford turret ship Queda
Model of Doxford diesel engine, c.1924
Model of 'Empire Liberty'. The ship was built in Sunderland in 1941 by J. L. Thompson and Sons
Oil lamp and optics from the Sunderland South Pier lighthouse, built by Thomas Meik in 1856. The lighthouse, having a wrought iron skin on a cast iron frame, was moved to Cliff Park, Roker, in 1982
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, in Burdon Road, Sunderland
A welcoming museum in the centre of Sunderland, providing a good reminder of Sunderland's vanished traditional industries. This is important, given that that strenuous efforts have been made in the city to eliminate tangible traces of those industries which made Sunderland famous.
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