It’s a stylish line-up from a wonderful decade, including Graftons, Palmers, Pyrex, Greenwoods and Duns.
Not forgetting Moores, Turvey’s, F Clark furniture shop and other household names of the time.
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9. F Clark's in 1964
F Clark's furniture shop was always a favourite for families in Sunderland. It was in Olive Street and this photo shows it in 1964. | Bill Hawkins/ Sunderland Antiquarian Society
10. Timpson in 1965
Timpsons was a great place for shoe shopping in Blandford Street as this photo from Christmas 1965 shows. | se
11. Bis Bar in 1965
The in-place for Sunderland social life in the 1960s and here it is in Park Lane. | se
12. Pyrex in 1966
Glass tubes at Pyrex and here is that famous Sunderland institution in March 1966. | se
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