In a message dated 28/08/2007 17:14:11 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: According to 'Lanes, Alleys and Quays of old Sunderland' - an article by C B Walker in Sunderland's History 5, the journal of Sunderland Antiquarian Society - Sans Close was Upper Sans Street. ___________________________________________________________ This is confirmed in the 1851 Directory where Sans Close is off Borough Road. In the 1858 Directory it is renamed Upper Sans Street, running from Coronation Street to Borough Road Stan