Today, we pay tribute to the days when you could earn your pay at the colliery, or go shopping at household High Street named shops.
So if you want to relive the days of the 1980s, keep browsing through our Sunderland Echo highligjts.
5. Welcoming the best in business
The opening of a trade fair in 1980. Sunderland MPs Gordon Bagier and Fred Willey were there. | se
6. Choices in Chester Road
Chester Road in Sunderland in the 1980s - when video hire was a part of the stopping-in experience. | se
7. Pensioners queue for the new travel passes at the Corporation bus depot in Sunderland in 1980.
Pensioners queue for the new travel passes at the Corporation bus depot in Sunderland in 1980. | se
8. Battle of the giants
Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks in action in the 1980s. | se Photo: se
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