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,
![Pudsey was a special guest at Barnes Infants School - and so were these staff from B&Q - on Children in Need day in 2012.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/04/29/8/47/Pudsey%20power.jpg?crop=3:2&width=800)
9. Pudsey power
Pudsey was a special guest at Barnes Infants School - and so were these staff from B&Q - on Children in Need day in 2012.
![Ann-Marie Hall from B&Q was helping to crack crime in 2013.
She was joined by police officers Les Jordan and Paul Harris and Coun Harry Trueman as they gave out leaflets to help stop shed and garden burglaries.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/04/29/9/34/On%20the%20case%20of%20the%20criminals.jpg?crop=3:2&width=800)
10. On the case of the criminals
Ann-Marie Hall from B&Q was helping to crack crime in 2013. She was joined by police officers Les Jordan and Paul Harris and Coun Harry Trueman as they gave out leaflets to help stop shed and garden burglaries.
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11. Assemble some memories for us
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