The summer holidays are officially over and the classrooms of Sunderland and County Durham are full of youngsters ready to learn.
What do you remember of your own school days? Did you go to Simpson Street or Southmoor, Thornhill or Thorney Close?
Did you love a woodwork class? We’ve chiselled out a memory just for you in some fantastic archive pictures.
Or how about a music session? Tune up with these school-day memories, which come to us courtesy of Bill Hawkins from the Sunderland Antiquarian Society.
Let’s take a wander down the school corridors of the past with 11 photographs from the vault.
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