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Description: | Bede Tower, Ryhope Road, Sunderland, 1910. This shows Bede Tower facing onto its lawn with trees on either side of the house. By the 1840s and 1850s the wealthy people were moving out to the edge of the Borough in the Ashbrooke. Bede Tower was built in 1852 by John and Benjamin Green of Newcastle, with an elegant Italianate tower, for Anthony John Moore, solicitor and chairman of the Gas Company. He was Mayor of Sunderland 1854 - 1855. The building is now part of Sunderland University. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | buildings and views Sunderland | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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