We took an Echo archive look at the cost of every day life on Wearside in 1974 and it might surprise you.
How much do you think corned beef from Disco, Ladybird skirts from Binns and prams from Woolco cost? What about a family ticket to the pictures.
Or how about a night at an Elizabethan banquet at Lumley Castle with wine and entertainment thrown in.
Here’s the answer. Read on.
5. Lots for £4.25 at Lumley Castle
It was just £4.25 for the popular Elizabethan banquets at Lumley Castle - and that included the wine and entertainment. | se
6. Delights at Disco
Asti spumanti for 95 pence, and corned beef for 50 pence at Disco in Ryhope. You could also get double dividend stamps with two for every 5p spent in the grocery section. | se
7. Top tapes at The Vestry
Cassette tape recorders were yours from The Vestry in Fawcett Street at £14.75 - more than £10 off the recommended retail price. | se
8. On at the Empire in Seaham
Children got in for 22 pence at the Empire Luxury Cinema in Seaham when the Saturday family movie was on. It started at 2pm and Daleks Invasion Earth was top of the bill in July 1974. | se