Get your overalls on for a trip down Memory Lane to Sunderland's industrial past.Get your overalls on for a trip down Memory Lane to Sunderland's industrial past.
Get your overalls on for a trip down Memory Lane to Sunderland's industrial past.

10 photos from Sunderland's factories in times gone by: Did you work in one of these well-known Wearside workplaces?

Who remembers Plesseys and Pyrex?

How about Bristol Aero Engines, Sunderland Shipbuilders, and Pawsons? We have all of these and more in a look back at the Wearside places you may well have worked at in times gone by.

We have photos both from the Sunderland Echo archives and from Bill Hawkins of the Sunderland Antiquarian Society.

To find out more about the history of Sunderland, visit the society’s Facebook page or its website at http://www.sunderland-antiquarians.org

If you’ve got factory memories, contact Chris Cordner on [email protected]