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.
7. Tackling the repairs
Workers on the scene after a hole appeared in the Cut in June 2003. | se
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