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The Sunderland Empire Theatre, opened in 1907, is the largest theatre in the North East, reopened in December 2004 following a major redevelopment allowing it to stage West End shows such as Miss Saigon, Starlight Express and My Fair Lady, all of which have been performed at the Empire.
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On 26 April 1976, while on a revival tour of The Mating Season, a 1969 farce by the Irish playwright Sam Cree, James suffered a heart attack on stage at the Sunderland Empire Theatre.
In the inter-war period the company established a world-wide reputation as a constructor of flying boats with aircraft such as the Singapore, Empire ' C '- Class and Sunderland.
Shorts work on seaplanes eventually culminated in the Short Sandringham and Short Seaford, both based on the Empire / Sunderland boats.
The Sunderland Empire theatre.
She reprised the role at the Sunderland Empire alongside Alex Ferns in 2007.
* Chitty Chitty Bang Bang-" Empire Theatre, Sunderland ( 2005 )
( As part of the merger, seven locations were sold to Empire Cinemas, due to UK fair trading law: Birmingham Great Park, Bishop's Stortford, Ealing, Slough, Sunderland, Swindon and Wigan.
* Aladdin at The Empire Theatre in Sunderland ( 1999 / 2000 )
The Sunderland Empire Theatre is a large theatre venue located in High Street West in Sunderland, North East England.
The theatre, which opened in 1907, is owned by City of Sunderland Council and operated by Ambassador Theatre Group Ltd, on behalf of Sunderland Empire Theatre Trust.
The Sunderland Empire is one of the largest venues in the North East, with 1, 860 seats and the capacity to accommodate 2, 200 when all standing positions are occupied.
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Parfitt began his stage career with Sunderland Empire Theatre Society in 1969 but he gave up acting in the late-1980's to concentrate on production, and has been working as an independent film producer for the past 25 years and is, at present, living in Brixton with his wife Liz Parfitt and his three children Bill, Thomas and Max Parfitt.
In 2010, Biggins is to appear as a guest star narrator in The Rocky Horror Show at the * Belfast Grand Opera House ( March and April ), at the * Sunderland Empire Theatre ( June ), * Southend Cliffs Pavilion ( September ), * Grand Canal Theatre, Dublin and also at the * Liverpool Empire Theatre ( October ).
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" Among these roles, he found critical success playing Captain Cook in a production of Rudolph Besier's The Barretts of Wimpole Street at the Queen's Theatre alongside Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Scott Sunderland and Cedric Hardwicke.
Sunderland and opened
In 1997, Sunderland moved to their present ground, Stadium of Light in Monkwearmouth, which was opened by Prince Andrew, Duke of York.
In July 1986, Nissan became the first Japanese carmaker to set up a production facility in Europe, when it opened a new plant in Sunderland.
In 1991, Airport Metro station opened, connecting the airport with Newcastle and later in 2002 Sunderland city centres using the Tyne and Wear Metro system.
The stadium was opened v Sunderland on 28 July 2001.
At the start of his second season at Newcastle, Bellamy again opened his goalscoring account in a home derby with Sunderland.
The route was opened in 1994 running from Whitehaven on the west coast of Cumbria to the northeast coast at Sunderland.
The A1018 ' Southern Radial Route ', which opened in 2008, bypasses Ryhope along the clifftops and takes traffic toward the Port of Sunderland in Hendon and other routes to the centre and north of Sunderland.
Also named in his honour is The Raich Carter Sports Centre in the Hendon area of Sunderland, opened in 2001 near to where he grew up and loosely on the site of his hometown club's first ever ground.
In 1882 he opened a " Temperance Hotel " in Sunderland settling down to life ashore at the age of 24.
The 114 m ( 375 ft ) long structure was officially opened by Lady Raine, whose husband was Sir Walter Raine, the Chairman of Sunderland AFC at the time.
Dyer opened his Newcastle goalscoring account at home to local rivals Sunderland, but the game ended in a 2 – 1 defeat, which saw Gullit resign shortly afterwards.
In what was his first start in seven months, ( since the 4 – 1 victory over Sunderland at the Stadium of Light ), Dyer opened the scoring in the game after 30 minutes, with his first league goal for Newcastle in over 20 months.
Durham's first railway station opened at Shincliffe in 1839 as the passenger terminus between the Durham area and Sunderland but closed in 1893 once a line had been run from Sherburn House to Durham itself.
In 1842, Brandling Station was opened at Mullbery Street in Felling on the Brandling Junction railway linking Gateshead, South Shields and Sunderland.
The arena opened with a resident basketball team in the Newcastle Comets, having been relocated from Sunderland where they had played as the Sunderland Scorpions.
Sunderland opened negotiations to sign Bent in July 2009.
The other two were in nearby Shincliffe, one called Shincliffe Town which served a branch from Sunderland which was built in 1839, and the other ( Shincliffe Bank Top ) was opened in 1844.
He opened his tally in the 3 – 0 away win at Sunderland.
An underground Tyne and Wear Metro station opened at the site on 28 April 2002 enabling speedy travel within Sunderland and much of Tyne & Wear.
Sunderland and 1907
He served as Recorder ( part-time judge ) of Sunderland from 1907 to 1918, and was made a King's Counsel in 1910.
After leaving Everton, Roose went on to play in 91 league matches and seven cup games for Sunderland between 1907 and 1910, helping the club to finish second in the league on two occasions, and " almost single-handedly " saving the team from relegation on a third.
In 1907 Wigglesworth visited Alexander Boddy during the Sunderland Revival, and following a laying-on of hands from Alexander's wife Mary Boddy he experienced speaking in tongues ( glossolalia ).
Sunderland and is
The accents of Northern England are also distinctive including a range of variations: Northumberland, County Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, Cumbria, Lancashire with regional variants in Bolton, Burnley, Blackburn, Manchester, Preston, Blackpool, Merseyside and Wigan, Yorkshire is also distinctive, having variations between the North Riding of Yorkshire, West Riding of Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire.
It is thought to have started in the 1970s when supporters of Sunderland moved to Rotterdam to work in the ports and docks, some of which remained in Rotterdam and settled there, thus taking an interest in the local team, Feyenoord.
It is common to find Sunderland shirts in De Kuip on a matchday and at the Stadium of Light, a St George's England flag with Feyenoord Mackems written across the red cross is on show at every match.
* Jordan Cook ( born 20 March 1990 ) is an English professional footballer, who plays as a striker at Premier League side Sunderland.
Sunderland suffered economic decline during the last century, but is now becoming an important area for quaternary industry, science and high technology.
O ' Toole is a fan of Sunderland A. F. C., as he told Chris Evans on an episode of TFI Friday, dated Friday, 11 October 1996.
Conway is a member of Frontier Regional and Union 38 School Districts, which also includes Deerfield, Whately and Sunderland.
Deerfield is located in the northern Pioneer Valley and is bordered by Greenfield to the north, Montague to the northeast, Sunderland to the southeast, Whately to the south, Conway to the west, and Shelburne to the northwest.
Deerfield is the central member of Frontier Regional and Union 38 School Districts, which also includes Conway, Whately and Sunderland.
The town is bordered by Montague to the north, Wendell to the northeast, Shutesbury to the east, Amherst to the south, and Sunderland to the west.
Sunderland is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States, part of the Pioneer Valley.
Sunderland is located in the Pioneer Valley on the east bank of the Connecticut River, which drains the town.
Sunderland is home to the Buttonball Tree, an American sycamore famous for its size and age.
Sunderland is bordered by Montague to the north, Leverett to the east, Amherst and Hadley to the south, and Whately and Deerfield to the west.
( Because of the river, there is no direct access between Sunderland and Whately.
) From its town center just east of the Connecticut River, Sunderland is south of the county seat of Greenfield, north of Springfield, and west of Boston.
Whately lies along the southern border of the county, north of Hampshire County, and is bordered by Conway to the northwest, Deerfield to the northeast, Sunderland to the east, Hatfield to the south, and Williamsburg to the west.
Whately is a member of Frontier Regional and Union 38 School Districts, which also includes Conway, Deerfield and Sunderland.
It is the sandstone used in the Queen Alexandra Bridge in Sunderland, the Manchester International Convention Centre and the base of the Statue of Liberty.
He was probably born in Sunderland but the exact date of his birth is unknown ; there is some dispute as to whether he was born in 1613, 1614, or 1615.
Trevor Horn grew up in Houghton-le-Spring, which is part of the municipality of Sunderland, England.
His parents, John and Elizabeth, were from Hetton-le-Hole, which is near Sunderland.
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