The house on stilts, the church which moved itself down the street and the hall haunted by highwaymen
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00:00Every house tells a story, but these Sunderland buildings had a tale to tell like no other.
00:08Question is, how many do you remember? This house in the shadow of Wearmouth Bridge had
00:14twelve rooms and they were all built on stilts and it had three front doors. The cottage
00:22on Glass Hill was a little house on a hill which was made out of ballast dumped by ships.
00:29Our MP John Candlish once lived there. Dick Turpin, the legendary highwayman, was one
00:37of the people said to haunt Ryob Hall. A stately entrance to Monk Wearmouth's railway station
00:45was a copy of an Ionic Greek temple. Heard the one about the Sunderland church which
00:51moved by itself? It happened at Hurrington Street Methodist Mission and it made echo
00:57headlines in April 1952 because it shifted eight inches. And this 160 year old building
01:07on the north foreshore had been a sea cadet base, lifeboat station, lookout post and a
01:14foy boat headquarters. Tell us about the history you want to see in the Sunderland Echo. Email
01:21chris.cordner at nationalworld.com