10 historic First World War sites you can still visit in Sunderland today

By The Newsroom
Published 9th Nov 2018, 14:11 BST
Updated 12th Nov 2018, 09:21 BST
A memorial bench at Wheatsheaf Green to commemorate the Zepplin attack in April 1916A memorial bench at Wheatsheaf Green to commemorate the Zepplin attack in April 1916
A memorial bench at Wheatsheaf Green to commemorate the Zepplin attack in April 1916
For most of us the First World War conjures up images of the front line and the horrors of the trenches.

But in the first “total war” the whole nation had to be mobilised to fight, and Sunderland with its busy shipyards was both a hive of activity and a perilous place facing marauding U-boats and Zepplein attacks. Here we look at some of the city’s First World War sites which still remain with us today:

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