Just think. A walk through Sunderland could once have included all of these buildings and structures, from Roker Park to the Gilley Law chimney.
Tell us if you watched as the D shaft tower came down at Wearmouth pit, the Garths were bulldozed in the East End or Books Fashions became part of the past.
Re-live it all courtesy of these memories from the Sunderland Echo archives.
5. A disappearing landmark
Bulldozers move in to demolish the former Co-op building in Sunderland in January 1992. | se
6. The changing scene in Dawdon
Dawdon Colliery’s twin towers crashing to the ground. Four separate explosive charges were let off to fell the 150ft Castlereagh Tower, and then its taller neighbour, the 187ft Theresa Tower in 1992. | se Photo: Sunderland Echo
7. Watching in Gilley Law
Demolition of Gilley Law's 200 ft chimney in 1993. Tell us if you were one of the people watching. | se
8. D shaft's demolition
Wearmouth Pit's D Shaft tower came crashing down in this scene from October 1994. | se