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Sunderland's Santa parades in October
Sunderland Echo
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16/10/2023
The 70s and 80s tradition of parading through Sunderland to Binns and Joplings
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Santa's in town, or at least he was in Sunderland in the 1970s and 1980s when the annual Father
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Christmas Parade brought out the crowds. October was always the time when the traditional parades
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were held to Joplings or Bins. Stars such as Tom Baker from Doctor Who and Melvin Hayes
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and Windsor Davis from Adair Taft Hawkmon did the honours. First is the Joplings Parade
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from 1977 when Tom Baker got an open top ride through the streets of Sunderland. He went
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past Bins, Cantors and Sunderland Station on his way to Joplings to officially open
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the store's Christmas season. It was a wet and cold day but Tom had a smile and a wave
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for everyone. Just as welcome were Windsor and Melvin in 1982 and look at the crowds
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who turned out to see them outside Buck's Fashions and Williams and Glynn's Bank. Did
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you love a Santa Parade to Joplings or Bins? Email chris.cordner@nationalworld.com to tell
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us more.
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[Christmas music]
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Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas!
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(bells chiming)
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