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17792


Sunderland


Sunderland, Toward Road, The Victoria Hall


Sunderland


NZ35NE


Recreational


Recreational Hall


Meeting Hall


Early Modern


C19


Demolished Building


The Victoria Hall was located on Toward Road. The site is now occupied by an office block constructed in the 1960s after the hall was damaged during an air raid in World War II. On the 16th June 1883, 183 children died at the Victoria Hall at the end of a concert after a stampede ensued following an announcement that children with certain numbered tickets would be given a prize when they left the hall.


3996


5671


NZ39965671



Tumman, J, Johnson, M and Lane, A (no date) A walk around Historic Sunderland- The Fawcett and Sunniside Estates; GE Milburn and ST Miller, 1988, Sunderland River, Town and People, pp 130-131

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