ALAN BRETT - Old Pubs of Sunderland

I do not propose to write an article on these as brewing, maltings and 'private home brewed' vats. swarmed in Sunderland in the days when water was used to wash in and tea and coffee luxuries. There is nothing more surprising in the town than the number of inns ... beer shops wine and spirit
merchants and the like; our ancestors must have literally swum in liquor. 
 
James Corder 1867-1953
 
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