Happy faces but how many do you recognise from 28 years ago?placeholder image
Happy faces but how many do you recognise from 28 years ago?

9 Sunderland and East Durham photos from 1994: The year we first played the National Lottery

What do the National Lottery, an avid Andy Capp fan and Nissan have in common?

The answer is 1994 because that’s when all of the above made the Sunderland Echo headlines.

It’s the year when we first played the numbers game and hoped to become overnight millionaires.

But it was also the year when Nissan celebrated its 10th anniversary in the region and Sunderland had a contender for the biggest Andy Capp fan in the world.

Read on.

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