Sunderland’s shops will be growing increasingly busy as Christmas customers step up their buying.
In past years, they could have browsed round the shelves of these favourites from Blacketts to Binns and Debenhams to Doggarts.
In case you missed it;
5. Josephs in 1997
Josephs in Holmeside, pictured in 1997 shortly before its closure. Thousands of people bought toys for Christmas from this favourite. | se Photo: Sunderland Echo
6. Kwik Save in 2003
The staff at Kwik Save in Park Lane on its last day in 2003. It first opened as a supermarket 17 years earlier. | se
7. Woolworths in 2004.
The Fawcett Street store had sales on for the last customers through the doors in 2004. | se
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