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Rebuilt Sun Inn at the Beamish museum.

The Sun Inn was situated on High Bondgate. This pub was present by 1806 when it was known as The Tiger Inn. It dismantled and re-built as a working pub at the Beamish open air museum near Stanley.

Source: John Moore

My mother, nee Dorothy Taylor, born and brought up in High Bondgate, Bishop Auckland once told me that her father used to wash the windows of The Sun Inn, for which he'd be paid in beer. As a heavy drinker this was, presumably, a mutually satisfactory arrangement. This would have been in the 1920s/1930s

Geoff Easeman (May 2021)

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