Customers looked round what was left of the shelves in Binns, before the one-time Fawcett Street favourite finally closed.
The Sunderland Echo’s photographers grabbed all of these scenes showing customers queuing at the tills, staff saying goodbye and workers putting up the boarding.
Relive it all in these poignant photo memories and then get in touch to share your own.
5. The end of the road
The last customers were pictured leaving Binns for a final time as the staff get ready to lock up the store. | se
6. Closed for good
Workers put up the boarding. Its a final symbol that the end truly has arrived for the Binns store in 1993. | se
7. A poignant moment
Staff escort the last two customers out of the store in a poignant piece of Sunderland history. | se
8. Goodbye at Binns
The last moments of trading at the Binns store in Sunderland 33 years ago. Tell us if you were there. | se