13 photos from a retro journey along Chester Road in Sunderland

It’s one of Sunderland’s busiest streets and it has many decades of fascinating history behind it.

Chester Road gets our attention in a series of Sunderland Echo photo memories which go all the way back to 1939.

See how many you remember.

In case you missed it;

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