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.
13. Suffolk Street in 1940
The wheels of a German bomber which crashed are pictured in this 1940 air raid damage scene. | JPIMedia Resell Photo: SE
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The devastation caused by German bombers in Humbledon in August 1940. | JPIMedia Resell Photo: Sunderland Echo
15. Sir Winston in 1941
Sir Winston Churchill pictured in the North East on a 1941 visit. | JPIMedia Resell Photo: SE
16. Binns is hit
Binns was hit by German bombs in April 1941. But in a show of sheer determination, the store was running again from another site within three days. | JPIMedia Resell Photo: SE