Wrap up warm because we are taking you on a chilly retro journey.
Here are nine views of Wearside on days when it was cold enough to freeze the Wear, the dry docks and the lakes.
We've got winter beauty from the 1950s onwards, all courtesy of the Sunderland Echo archives.
Here are nine views of Wearside on days when it was cold enough to freeze the Wear, the dry docks and the lakes.
![Barnes Park pond was freezing in this scene from January 1979.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/01/05/10/17/ice2.jpg?crop=3:2&width=522)
5. Winter in Barnes Park
Barnes Park pond was freezing in this scene from January 1979. | se
![Ice on the pond at Doxford Park as we head back to 2008.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/01/05/10/56/ice8.jpg?crop=3:2&width=511)
6. A walk in the freezing weather
Ice on the pond at Doxford Park as we head back to 2008. | se
![Mowbray Park pond provides a frozen foreground for this beautiful morning scene in 2009.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/01/05/10/36/ice7.jpg?crop=3:2&width=800)
7. Mowbray Park memories
Mowbray Park pond provides a frozen foreground for this beautiful morning scene in 2009. | se
![An Echo photographer took this view of ice forming on the Wear in 2010.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/01/05/10/57/ice4.jpg?crop=3:2&width=800)
8. Winter beauty in 2010
An Echo photographer took this view of ice forming on the Wear in 2010. | se