We think we’ve got it nailed with this retro tribute to B&Q’s workers on Wearside.
Here are nine Echo archive photos from Deptford, Washington and Trimdon Street.
They show staff doing their bit in the crackdown on crime, getting ready to go to the Winter Olympics and helping schoolchildren to learn about the environment,
And let’s hear it for the B&Q staff who did their bit for the older generation of workers.
They show staff doing their bit in the crackdown on crime, getting ready to go to the Winter Olympics and helping schoolchildren to learn about the environment,
![Ann-Marie Hall won a holiday to the Winter Olympics village in Austria in 2005.
Helping her celebrate was Mark Christie.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/04/29/9/25/Off%20to%20the%20Olympics.jpg?crop=3:2&width=800)
5. Off to the Olympics
Ann-Marie Hall won a holiday to the Winter Olympics village in Austria in 2005. Helping her celebrate was Mark Christie. | se
![Dick Cruddas and Terry Hall were doing the older generation of workers proud in Washington in 2006.
Dick, 60, and Terry, 62, gave some wiring tips to MP Sharon Hodgson.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/04/29/10/29/A%20golden%20generation.jpg?crop=3:2&width=800)
6. A golden generation
Dick Cruddas and Terry Hall were doing the older generation of workers proud in Washington in 2006. Dick, 60, and Terry, 62, gave some wiring tips to MP Sharon Hodgson. | se
![Ken Ludlow, 66, trained as a joiner in the shipyards but it looked like he was having a great time at B&Q in Trimdon Street in September 2007.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/04/29/10/47/From%20the%20shipyards%20to%20Trimdon%20Street.jpg?crop=3:2&width=800)
7. From the shipyards to Trimdon Street
Ken Ludlow, 66, trained as a joiner in the shipyards but it looked like he was having a great time at B&Q in Trimdon Street in September 2007. | se
![Laura Waiter (left) and Laura Ball showed off the Royal wedding gnomes which were on sale in the Trimdon Street branch in 2011.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/04/29/7/56/Regal%20moments%20from%20Trimdon%20Street.jpg?crop=3:2&width=800)
8. Regal moments from Trimdon Street
Laura Waiter (left) and Laura Ball showed off the Royal wedding gnomes which were on sale in the Trimdon Street branch in 2011. | se