Sunderland Road

Sunderland Road, circa 1910

The original postcard has some writing from a father to his daughter, including the words, "This will show you Lilley, how nice it is here." The scene looks quite idyllic, with a beautiful wide avenue of late Victorian homes in leafy suburbia.

Today, the ridge of bushes to the left of the scene, which would have marked the edge of the church grounds, has been developed with modern townhouses, on land presumably sold by the Church at the turn of the 21st Century.

The postbox, is still in the same location, now outside a large block, named Sunderland Mount, presumably built post war as a large bomb fell on this site, as recorded in the WW2 Bomb census website.

Sunderland Road, February 2020

The postbox in the original picture

Modern houses in what used to be church grounds

Christ Church, some ground of which sold for the houses on the left of the 'now' picture