 Standards before ship building and centuries before Cole, culture and learning was at the heart of the country's identity. However, solar is not just a city with a great history. It's united with the great future too, with an array of exciting new developments just like this one, the renovation of the OR fire station this is a city with culture at its heart. The Heritage Lottery Fund, all the fire station received £2.5 million per annum tr fel Lottery to tell today massive building into a cultural hub. Give people the opportunity to take part in and experience workshops and classes in music, drama, art and creative writing. A number of projects here, one we'll see is a project called Live Tales, which is about literacy for key stage two children. And we're getting kids from all over Sunderland coming in here to improve their literacy through story writing. So Pickles is a good guy in your story. Is Pickles going to be good in your story? And on a wider scale, do you think it's really good for Sunderland as a city to get people creatively writing? We see children come into the room and arriving going, I don't really like writing. And then after a couple of hours worth of a session, creating a story, creating characters, leaving with a book of their work, they leave going, I love it. This is creativity. And this must be very dramatic because we've got three exclamation marks there, haven't you? So what is it about creative writing that you enjoy so much? It helps us think of different ideas. I think that we perhaps underestimated the demand for this sort of stuff in Sunderland. We've got hours and hours of dance classes here. The whole thing about art and culture is it builds confidence. It gives opportunity. I mean, for kids, often kids in Sunderland are a little bit shy and reserved. Suddenly being able to be more outward facing. It just really changes their whole outlook on life. I think it's a really important part of growing up and giving them the opportunity to do it in a place like this is just fantastic.