13 photos to take you back to 1976: Is this how you remember Sunderland
By Chris Cordner
Published 21st Oct 2020, 07:00 BST
What do you remember of the mid 1970s?
Charlie’s Angels, The Bionic Woman and Rentaghost were all on television. But what about closer to home?
Did you live in the Garths, or work at Jackson the Tailors? Were you in a jazz band or working in the shipyards?
Maybe you liked a pint in The Old 29 or loved a trip to Roker Park. We have all this and more in a feature on Sunderland in 1976.
How many of these scenes do you remember? Take a look and tell us more.
Maybe you liked a pint in The Old 29 or loved a trip to Roker Park. We have all this and more in a feature on Sunderland in 1976.
9. An industrial scene
The Cedarbank was the first of a series of six cargo liners to be built for the Bank Line Ltd, of London. Pictured is the Sunderland Shipbuilders undercover dock. Photo: Sunderland Echo
The story of Sunderland seen through the eyes of pupils of Hylton Road Junior School was the theme of an art exhibition held at Deptford and Millfield Community Centre in 1976. Photo: Sunderland Echo
Monkwearmouth School's pantomime featured Cinders (Christine Cooper) and her Prince Charming (Dorothy Outram). Good fairies, Miss Mary Pattie, left, and Miss Edythe Brown are also pictured. Photo: Sunderland Echo
These children, who were starting at Quarry View Infants' School, were pictured with their teacher Mrs E Hodson as she showed them around the school playground. Photo: Sunderland Echo