Wearmouth monastery, dedicated to St. Peter, was found ed by Benedict Biscop; and, when that building was nearly finished, he procured artificers from France, skilled in the art of glass making, the manufacture of which the inhabitants of the British isles were at that time strangers to, and this structure had the honour of being glazed with the first glass made in England; previous to which, windows were either latticed, or at best, filled up with fine linen cloths stretched upon frames of wood.

From J. Sykes, 1833. Northumberland and Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Berwick upon Tweed, from the earliest period of authentic record, to the present time..Volume 1

Nov. 23. A fire broke out in a bake house, in Monkwearmouth shore, which entirely consumed the same, two houses adjoining, and much damaged a third.

From: T Fordyce, J. Sykes. Local records; or, Historical register of remarkable events which have occurred in Northumberland and Durham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Berwick-upon-Tweed..., published 1867

July 25.- John Winship, a farmer in the neighbourhood of Monkwearmouth, was executed at Durham, having been convicted of poisoning his maid servant, by administering certain drugs to produce abortion. His body was given to the surgeons for dissection, and was opened by Mr. Wilkinson, of Sunderland, who, in the presence of many gentlemen of the faculty, delivered a lecture on the contents of the cranium, thorax, and abdomen.

From: T Fordyce, J. Sykes. Local records; or, Historical register of remarkable events which have occurred in Northumberland and Durham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Berwick-upon-Tweed..., published 1867

Monkwearmouth Station in Sunderland was opened on the 19th of June 1848. The building is now a museum.

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