E Metcalfe & Son, general carriers, H'ton.
Alan Vickers adds "J Metcalfe was the proprietor who was listed in Whellan's
Directory, 1894. He died in 1907 and was survived by his wife
Elizabeth and I am presuming that she is the E Metcalfe named on the
wagon and hoarding. E Metcalfe died in 1917 when the business passed
to the sons. So somewhere between 1907 and 1917."
This is Houghton Broadway with the original White Lion Hotel on the right. The large building to the left of it is the old market hall in Newbottle Street. The photo was taken during the first week of June 1905 to show off the first of the new Sunderland District trams just before the system opened on Whit weekend. The trams were thought to be the wonder of the age and ran from here for the next twenty years. Caption Malcolm Fraser
