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.
13. Wonderfully Wild West n Washington
This Wild West scene in Washington was part of the Strang Riding School for the Disabled Western jamboree and hoe-down. | se Photo: Sunderland Echo
14. Dancing at the Tech
Sunderland Polytechnic in the 1980s. Tell us if we got you on camera while you were dancing. | se Photo: Sunderland Echo
15. Thorney Close in 1980
Workmen who built a house in less than two weeks in the grounds of Thorney Close School in 1980. See if you recognise anyone among the jubilant workers. | se Photo: se
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