Nine Sunderland spots where you met your friends before the age of the mobile - from the 'pushy buttons' to the Bermuda Triangle

Yours might have been the pushy button machine in the bus station

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Picture the scene.

You’re out and about in Sunderland and waiting to meet your friends at your favourite rendezvous point.

But where was yours? Was it the ‘pushy button’ machine in the bus station, or maybe C&A corner?

For some, it was outside Books Fashions or the triangle between the Beehive, Borough and Painted Wagon.

We know because we asked the members of our Wearside Echoes nostalgia group on Facebook.

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