I've got my eyes on the amazing bargains you could have grabbed in the 1970 January sales in Sunderland
You were spoilt for choice if you wanted to grab a bargain on a cold January day in Sunderland in the early 1970s.
Have a browse at this list of the cut-price offers you could get at the brilliant department stores we had back then.
Coats for £7 at Liverpool House
Men’s car coats were just over £7 at Liverpool House in High Street West where you could also get brown brogue Chelsea boots for 79 shillings and11pence.
Nylon dresses for infants were selling at 29 shillings and11pence, while fancy knit wool bed jackets for women were 35 shillings and 11 pence.
Binns in Fawcett Street was selling ready made curtains from £3, blue service shirts from 25 shillings and brushed nylon slips at15 shillings.
Wool dresses on sale at Joplings
Joplings in John Street was selling step-in girdles were 10 shillings and Jersey wool dresses were 59 shillings and 11 pence ‘to clear.’
The Blacketts store in High Street West sold fridges for 35 guineas, and a spin dryer 19 and a half guineas. You could also get men’s lounge suits for £11, 19 shillings and sixpence.
And at Granthams in Blandford Street, 12-foot wide broadloom carpets were 39 shillings and sixpence a square yard.
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For those keen on saving space, you could buy a 115 guinea three-piece suite which converted into a double bed.
Coffee from Woolco was a snip at 37 pence and a two-course meal of gammon and pineapple followed by ice cream was yours for 65 pence plus VAT at the Number 30 steakhouse on Blandford Street.
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