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Sunderland Docks
Sunderland Docks in England North East, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Sunderland Docks is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Sunderland Docks is an area of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. Home to the Port of Sunderland, the docks have access to the North Sea. Sunderland City Council took over the port in 1972 and since then deindustrialisation has caused the port to decline.
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Background
History
The Sunderland Dock Company was formed by the (9 & 10 Vict. c. xiii) and was chaired by Sunderland's Member of Parliament George Hudson MP. A spokesman for Northumbria Police said that "The police were made aware that a man had died in a suspected industrial accident on Prospect Row, at Sunderland Docks. The man was named as dock worker Brendan Eccles, a 61-year-old grandfather from Billingham. In 2019, the incident was investigated and examined by Sunderland City Council who produced a review into health and safety issues. In 2020, a Greenpeace ship staged a protest off the coast of the docks.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 54.9080, -1.3600
- Official site
- www.donnisonschool.org.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q96406709 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Sunderland Docks (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Sunderland Docks?
- Sunderland Docks is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.9080°, -1.3600°.