(09 Mar 2021, 8:10 pm)Andreos1 wrote Havent long seen this on the Sunderland Antiquarian Society fb page.

https://www.facebook.com/350583321620817...987727913/

It looks like a hand-drawn map of the Corporation (what is now SNE) network in Sunderland in 1959.
Appreciate some of the estates aren't built, but it's quite amazing how much of the network now is pretty much the same as it was then. 
Here's me thinking the network we have now that I similar to 1987 was bad... I'm going to have to refer back to 1959 now!

The 'history and survey' booklet which the map comes from is a cracking read for anyone interested in how the Sunderland public transport offering developed and grew over it's first six decades - well worth it if you can get your hands on a copy.  Sadly the detail on the map itself is no easier to read in the printed format in the booklet...clearly the folk of Sunderland had outstanding eyesight back in the 50s!