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Wear Tales looks at stories from Wearside's past, as told in the pages of the Sunderland Echo. Episodes 1-4 cover history repeating, ghosts and haunting, brushes with fame, and the casebooks of a 1930s police inspector. With thanks to Sunderland Antiquarian Society.

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00:00Welcome to Weir Tales, a look at stories from the past of Sunderland and Weirside as told in the pages of the Sunderland Echo.

00:06In the headlines of yesteryear, we can see many a parallel with the trending stories of today.

00:10Mysteries, hauntings and the unexplained.

00:13If it weren't for their stories haunting the pages of the Echo, they might have long since wafted away like smoke.

00:18People's biggest and brightest moments immortalised.

00:21Along inevitably with some of the saddest.

00:24Our investigation is led by a local lawman of the 1930s and 40s.

Wear Tales - a look at Wearside's past on Shots!TV

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