These retro photos show once-popular shops around the North East that have vanished from the high street.
They range from department stores and major supermarket chains to much-loved local fashion and record shops.
The nostalgic images capture a different era of shopping, before the internet and other technological advances changed everything.
Shoppers are seen taking part in trolley dashes, queuing to get their film developed in the days before digital cameras, and gazing through a shop window at TVs for rent at a time when few households could afford to buy one outright.
These pictures take us back to a golden age for department stores, including Binns, Joplings, Blacketts, Doggarts, BHS and Woolworths.
You may remember browsing the goods there, getting your groceries from Presto and Safeways before those supermarket chains disappeared in the 90s and noughties, respectively, or saving up your Green Shield stamps to buy something from one of the famous catalogue shops in the 60s or 70s.
As well as ordinary shoppers and staff, these photos show famous guests opening stores and signing autographs at promotional events, from household names like the Radio 1 DJ David ‘Kid’ Jensen to local celebrities such as Big Phil, from Radio Metro.
How many of these shops do you remember, and what lost store do you miss most?
For more North East nostalgia, you might like this look back at things you can’t do anymore but we wish you could.
25. Winter sale
Joplings winter sale in December 1977, with Doris Kennan (left) and Kathleen Nelson setting up the perfume sale display | National World
26. Savacentre
Big pools winner Viv Nicholson at Savacentre store in Washington, Tyne and Wear, loading up toys for the Sunderland Children's Hospital, while at the store to promote her book, Spend, Spend, Spend, in March 1978. Pictured with her are the matron of the hospital, Jean Tindill, left, and Sister Valerie Whitfield. | National World
27. Ribbon-cutting
Sunderland footballer Marco Gabbiadini cuts the ribbon to officially open the Lindon House furniture store in Holmeside, Sunderland, in March 1988 | National World
28. Woolworths
Linda Smith, children's wear specialist at Woolworths, looking after the flower baskets hanging on scaffolding outside the store on Fawcett Street, Sunderland, in August 1999 | National World Photo: Sunderland Echo