We’re off on another shopping trip. This time to the 1970s.
Sunderland was a busy place, especially if you visited stores such as Joplings, C&A, or Lermans just like these shoppers did.
They are all in the picture as well as well-known traders in Olive Street, Vine Place, and Church Street in Seaham.
It’s a gallery of excellent Echo archive scenes. Take a look.

1. Retail therapy - 1970s style
Views from the shopping centre, Vine Place. Olive Street, Seaham and more. | se

2. In the arcade
Looking round Palmer's Arcade in November 1970. Did you love a browse round Lerman's? | se

3. Out for a shop in Vine Place
The Village Clothes Shop and Wittens jewellers were on the minds of these shoppers in Vine Place in August 1979. | se

4. Wrapped up against the cold
A chat during the shopping in Sunderland town centre in March 1971. | se