Thousands of people took a look when we asked them to ‘Name the best Christmas present you got when you were little’.
We posed the question on our Wearside Echoes Facebook page and lots of you cast your minds back to your younger days.
There were memories of record players from Palmers, dolls from Joplings and home made dolls houses.
Read on to find out what else the people of Sunderland loved.

5. Jean's wooden desk
Jean Clark; A wooden desk made by my pop filled with exercise books pens, pencils, rubbers, ruler, colouring pencils and paints. Loved it. | Getty Images

6. A Joplings Christmas
Ingrid Golden said: "Teeny Tiny Tears. Mam said she queued with my Auntie Frances at Joplings." Here are the festive illuminations on Joplings department store in Sunderland in 1962. | Bill Hawkins

7. June's beautiful book
June Shemmings said; "A book by Hans Christian Anderson, beautiful pictures." Here is an illustration for Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, 'Thumbelina'. (Photo by Bridgeman via Getty Images) | Photo by Bridgeman via Getty Images

8. Harold's Meccano set
Harold Louis Thompson said; "A Meccano set, and that sent me on a path in engineering." The photo shows a boy sitting at a dining room table building a Meccano model in1924. (Photo by The Montifraulo Collection/Getty Images) | The Montifraulo Collection/Getty Images

