WATER COOLERS SUNDERLAND, TYNE AND WEAR
Looking for Water Coolers Sunderland? We deliver and install water coolers and water boilers to Sunderland and other parts of Tyne and Wear. If your office, school or workplace is in Sunderland and you are looking for water coolers or water boilers then you can get directly in touch with our main office, located in Yorkshire. You will be directly put through to James, Managing Director of our Yorkshire branch. James can give you the guidance and advice you may need to choose the right system for your requirements. Furthermore, with James being local to you he will be able to personally install your system for you!
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Finally, you may also be interested to find out more about our Filter change and sanitisation programme. This is a special service only for Active Water cooler customers. Find out more HERE Sunderland is a city in Tyne and Wear, in the North East of England 12 miles North East of Durham and 10 miles South East of Newcastle upon Tyne.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF SUNDERLAND, TYNE AND WEAR
Sunderland is in the northeast of England and sits on the coastline at the end of the River Wear. Sunderland has a long and proud industrial past and is the second largest settlement in the Northeast of England second only to Newcastle Upon Tyne.
The earliest inhabitants of the Sunderland area were Stone Age hunter-gatherers and artefacts from this era have been discovered. Furthermore, microliths have been found during excavations at St Peter’s Church in Monkwearmouth.
Once hailed as the ‘Largest Shipbuilding Town in the World’ ships in Sunderland have been were built on the Wear from at least the year 1346 onwards. By the mid-18th century Sunderland was one of the chief shipbuilding towns in the country. Sunderland grew as a port and traded mainly coal and salt. By the 19th century, the port of Sunderland had absorbed Bishopwearmouth and Monkwearmouth, owing to the growing economic importance of the shipbuilding docks.
Sunderland has always had good transport connections with the A19 dual carriage way running right paste the town. This used to go into the town before the bypass was built. The A19 Tyne tunnel connects South Shields and North Shields. South Shields being the end point of the Great North Run. Sunderland can boast many well-known entrepreneurs and famous faces that call Sunderland home, from Bryan Ferry and David A. Stewart of Roxy Music and Eurythmics respectively.
Japanese car manufacturer Nissan opened the Sunderland Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK factory in 1986, and the first Nissan Bluebird car was produced later that year. The factory and its supplier companies remain the largest employers in the region, with current cars produced there including the Nissan Qashqai, the Nissan Juke and the electric Nissan LEAF. As of 2012 over 500,000 cars are produced annually, and it is the UK’s largest car factory.
The 20th century saw Sunderland A.F.C. established as the Wearside area’s greatest claim to sporting fame. Founded in 1879 as ‘Sunderland and District Teachers A.F.C’, by schoolmaster James Allan, Sunderland joined The Football League for the 1890–91 season. By 1936 the club had been league champions on five occasions. They won their first FA Cup in 1937, but their only post-World War II major honour came in 1973 when they won a second FA Cup. They have had a checkered history and dropped into the old third division for a season and been relegated thrice from the Premier League, twice with the lowest points ever, earning the club a reputation as a yo-yo club.
After 99 years at the historic Roker Park stadium, the club moved to the 42,000-seat Stadium of Light on the banks of the River Wear in 1997. At the time, it was the largest stadium built by an English football club since the 1920s and has since been expanded to hold nearly 50,000 seated spectators.
The Sunderland Empire Theatre opened in 1907 on High Street West in the city centre. It is the largest theatre in between Edinburgh and London, and completed a comprehensive refurbishment in 2004. Operated by international entertainment group Live Nation, the Empire is the only theatre between Glasgow and Leeds with sufficient capacity to accommodate large West End productions. Today, along with the Empire Theatre, Sunderland offers shopping, entertainment including cinemas, sports cafes bars and restaurants.
Back to the history of Sunderland and its industrial power, it was once over responsible for building a quarter of the world’s ships from its shipyards. Sunderland shipyards have been documented to be on the River Wear as far back as 1346 and became the biggest ship building town not only in the United Kingdom but in the world. The Locals here in Sunderland are proudly known as Mackems as opposed to Newcastle’s Geordies. Sunderland has many sporting legends including the great Brian Clough, Jordan Henderson (ex-Liverpool Captain) and Olympic medallist Steve Cram. Sunderland and its enduring success with large scale industry was continued in the 1980s when Nissan opened their Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK factory in 1986, this factory now proudly produces 500,000 cars every year and is the UKs largest factory, just as the shipyards were back in the 1800s.
