Thousands of us use Houghton Cut every day.
Echo photographers have regularly captured it on film from 1938 and here are nine of those scenes once more.
Maybe you remember the dramatic scenes when the Beast from the East struck in 2018.
Who remembers when the Cut was in the picture in 1973. It's all in our retro gallery of Sunderland Echo archive images for you to enjoy.
2. Improvements in 1938
Workers were pictured making improvements to Houghton Cut in January 1938. | se
4. 53 years ago
The opening of the new A690 road at Houghton in November 1970. An official inspection of the road was led by Coun. Mrs M E Porter, chairman of Houghton Urban District Council, and Houghton MP Tom Urwin. | se
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