In colour! Sunderland's shipyard girls of the 1940s get a new look in this gallery of fantastic archive scenes

Take a look at an iconic set of Sunderland images as never seen before.

The women who worked in the shipyards during World War II can now be seen in colour thanks to the use of AI technology.

All of these scenes were recorded in 1941 and show women working as platers, scrapers, turners, painters and welders.

The role women in the shipyards has been made famous by Sunderland author Amanda Revell Walton through her series of books The Shipyard Girls.

Six thousand women were employed in industry in Sunderland at the peak period of the war effort.

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