Here is another look at them and the workers who made them tick.
We have nine reminders of Wearside workplaces and that includes Coles Cranes, Vaux, Brian Mills and more.
Join us on a look back fondly on factories as they looked in yesteryear and then get in touch with your own suggestions on shops, yards, offices we could revisit from Sunderland’s past.
5. Coles Cranes
Stormy weather for this Sunderland Echo photographer's visit to Coles Cranes in May 1980. Photo: SE
6. Plesseys
actory floor workers at Plessey Telecommunications had a ballet lesson from members of the the Northern Dance Theatre Company. Here are ballet stars Wendy Roe (left) and Norma Atallah with machine operator Len Hunter in 1975. Photo: Sunderland Echo
7. Bursgreen
Some of the old Bursgreen Fencehouses factory staff enjoying their reunion at Dubmire's British Legion Club in 2004. Photo: AB
8. Pawson's
Arthur Pawson and some of the workers at his Ford Industrial Estate factory in 1980. Photo: Sunderland Echo