If you wanted proof that enterprise, innovation and skill has abounded in Sunderland and County Durham for decades, here it is.
We have pictures of factories making hearing aid batteries, brushes, dolls houses and clogs.
Did you work at one of them? Is there someone you know in one of these photos?
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Did you work at one of them? Is there someone you know in one of these photos?
5. Clogs for workers
Clog Maker John Patrick Sheehan who supplied his products to the Vaux and Villa businesses. Here he is in 1942.
Photo: Sunderland Echo
6. Brilliantly tasty bars
Tropical wholefood bars were the tasty treat at FM Foods on the Southwick Industrial Estate in 2006.
Photo: PB
7. Tubes for Dunkirk
The Wear Glass Works of James Jobling and Co produced tubing to replace the metal tubes at the Dunkirk Power Station in 1966.
Photo: Sunderland Echo
8. Life-saving water filters
Redrose manufacturing, of the Dubmire Industrial Estate in Fence Houses, donated water filters to an African charity in 2014.
Photo: Picture by Kevin Brady