As you will discover, our two longer-read features lean heavily on the importance of home and its qualities in shaping our respective psyches.
But they go much further than that, extending beyond the nostalgia to a reimbursement that seeks to benefit generations to come.
Take Gillian Ridley Whittle.
Today, she is founder of sustainable fashion brand Peachaus, a leading industry figure whose endeavours have taken her to the other side of the world and taken in a host of instantly recognisable labels.
It’s the same with Leo Pearlman.
A proud son of Sunderland – so much so he named his production company Fulwell 73 after an old Roker Park stand and Sunderland AFC’s last FA Cup success – he too is giving back to the place where his family ran a business for more than 120 years.
And giving back in abundance.
Where a shipyard – the vestige of Wearside’s manufacturing heyday – once stood, soon will rise Crown Works Studios.
