With Remembrance Day at the weekend – and a BBC television series World on Fire putting the emphasis on the Second World War – we selected 25 which reveal the conflict closer to home.
They focus on everything from the evacuation of Wearside schoolchildren to air raids.
. Evacuating the children in 1939
Children of Wearside prepare to be evacuated in 1939. | JPIMedia Resell Photo: SE
. Mothers and friends watch the evacuation
The 1939 scene as parents watch the parade before the evacuation if children from Chester Road schools. | JPIMedia Resell Photo: SE
. The scene at Monkwearmouth Station
The evacuation of school children at Monkwearmouth Station in 1939. | JPIMedia Resell Photo: Sunderland Echo
. Delivering the shelters
An Anderson shelter is delivered to Ford Estate in 1939. | JPIMedia Resell Photo: SE
. Putting up a shelter
A 1939 scene from the Ford Estate where an air raid shelter is being built. | JPIMedia Resell Photo: SE
. Gas mask fittings at Commercial Road School
Fitting a baby with a gas mask at one of the Sunderland distribution centres. A photo which appeared in the Echo in 1939. | JPIMedia Resell Photo: SE
. At the entrance to an air raid shelter
An air raid shelter at Hendon. Instead of standing two or three feet above ground the top of the shelter is on a level with the garden. | JPIMedia Resell Photo: SE
. At his post
An air raid warden at his post in a Sunderland telephone kiosk in September 1939. | JPIMedia Resell Photo: SE
. Examining the kit
A mistress at Bede School examines pupils kit at an evacuation rehearsal in 1939. | JPIMedia Resell Photo: SE
1. Mothers and friends watch the evacuation
The 1939 scene as parents watch the parade before the evacuation if children from Chester Road schools. | JPIMedia Resell Photo: SE
2. The scene at Monkwearmouth Station
The evacuation of school children at Monkwearmouth Station in 1939. | JPIMedia Resell Photo: Sunderland Echo
3. Delivering the shelters
An Anderson shelter is delivered to Ford Estate in 1939. | JPIMedia Resell Photo: SE
4. Putting up a shelter
A 1939 scene from the Ford Estate where an air raid shelter is being built. | JPIMedia Resell Photo: SE