Members of Wearabout Theatre Company brought some good old Christmas spirit to Sunderland's Market Square in 1974.
Mud were feeling Lonely This Christmas in the charts.
Nurses add the decorations to the Christmas tree at Sunderland Royal Infirmary in 1976.
Flying high in the charts was Johnny Mathis with When A Child Is Born.
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