August 20 is Bacon Lovers Day and here is our tribute with a gallery of bacon-related scenes from the Sunderland Echo archives.
It’s a 13-course look at Barnes Juniors, Thornhill School, Broadway Juniors, BHS, Pallion and Dicksons.

1. Santa has a fry-up at BHS
A group of youngsters enjoyed breakfast with a very special guest at the weekend. Santa tucks into a fry-up watched by his special guests at BHS in December 1998. | se

2. Bacon buns at Thorney Close
Serving up a breakfast of bacon, sausages and scrambled eggs - as well as a few bacon buns - at the Thorney Close Primary School breakfast club in 2003. | se Photo: TC

3. Ready for breakfast in Pallion
This photo of the Pallion School breakfast club was taken 22 years ago. Head teacher Sue Thomson joined the children for the picture call in 2003. | se Photo: TC

4. Delicious at Dicksons
Diane Pounder takes a bite out of a bacon bun at Dicksons in this scene from 2006. | se