8 great reminders of Sunderland shops - from Blacketts record bar to Joplings sweet section
But perhaps some of the most recognisable are those which remind us of the great shops of yesteryear.
He has kindly shared images with us of everything from the Blacketts record bar to the Joplings sweet section where you even got your own mini basket to gather your favourite treats.
Who remembers the Blacketts furniture department or the fashion shows at Joplings? We have them all.
Bill is a member of the Sunderland Antiquarian Society and has shared hundreds of images with the Sunderland Echo.
To find out more about the history of Sunderland, visit the society’s Facebook page or its website at http://www.sunderland-antiquarians.org
If you’ve got shop memories, contact Chris Cordner on [email protected]
1. Help yourself to sweets at Joplings
The self-service Sweet Bar at Joplings in John Street. Remember it? Here it is in 1965. Photo: Bill Hawkins
2. Bargain sounds at Blacketts
Look at the price of the LPs in the Blacketts record bar! Photo: Bill Hawkins NOP
3. Binns ready to re-open
Binns nearing completion before it opened in February 1953 after a 12 year gap in trading when the store was hit by German bombs in April 1941. Photo: Bill Hawkins. Photo: Bill Hawkins
4. F Clarks in 1957
Clarks of Olive Street. Did you get a radio or a television there? Photo: Bill Hawkins. Photo: Bill Hawkins