Pure Art: A personal collection of Sunderland bits & bobs!

I don’t know what is usual or ‘normal’ in a household regarding football ‘art’ or pictures around the house. I know some fanatics have their own ‘shrine’ to their team.

Being an ‘exile’, my wife is quite generous in what she accepts can be hung up around our house linked to SAFC, to keep any homesickness at bay!

I thought I’d share some of my pieces with you all.

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1) The Black Cat picture is a limited edition that my mates (The Jolly Boys) clubbed together to buy me for my most recent ‘big’ birthday.

2) A beautiful print of Roker Park in all its majesty, by Matthew J. Wood.

3) The ‘ubiquitous’ Stadium of Light street sign.

4) I sourced these aerial photographs of the Stadium of Light not long after we moved there in the late ’90s.

5 & 6) I was thrilled to bits when I saw these two black and white photographs of Roker. The turnstile shown on the right is the turnstile I used for years, before climbing the steep stone steps up to the Fulwell End. Happy days.

7) The most recent addition is many of the different strips through the ages on Subuteo men. It’s not exactly correct, but it’s a bit of fun and from the ‘in-laws’, so I mustn’t grumble!

I found both 8 and 9 in a Cheltenham Race Course market. I got chatting to the guy and he was from Tynemouth! It’s a small world sometimes — two beautiful views of the SOL and the City of Sunderland. If you look carefully you can see the Red Arrows doing a flypast!

10) Not a great pic, but we found this print in a market in France, so we had to buy it!

I’ve got a few more, but they’re attached (or in) my outdoor shed. You’ll either be envious of my collection, think I’m a nut, or whatever – but hopefully you’ve enjoyed a bit of pure art!