1926 Sunderland went HARD for bank holiday — and someone filmed it.
Roll up, roll up, for all the fun of the fair as Sunderland celebrates the August bank holiday.
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Early handheld documentary chaos — wobbly, alive, accidental art.
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Survived 98 years to show us strangers having the best day.
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Roker Regatta was Sunderland's annual working-class blowout — shipyard families descending on the coast with zero chill and maximum pride.
Most 1926 holiday footage got lost, damaged, or tossed. This surviving fragment is literal social history gold — someone's attic miracle.
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