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PE teacher, Miss Audrey Wickham, was pictured at the wheel of the new mini bus of Castleview School, and some of the pupils were keen to join her in 1975.

Wearside PE teachers remembered

Chelsea are likely to spend bit this summer

£6.2bn tycoon’s Sunderland takeover interest revealed by journalist

Sunderland's Dan Cameron - Photo by Ben Cuthbertson

Exclusive Cats man attracting transfer interest after contract extension

Former Sunderland man Lee Cattermole

Exclusive Former Cats and Boro man under consideration for Gateshead job

Chris Shinn composed a musical called "In the Beginning Blues" in 1981.
It was premiered by 60 youngsters at New Silksworth Junior School where she taught.

13 Wearside music teachers you might recall

Could the Metro at last be expanded to include Washington.

Surely it has to be time to expand the Metro to include Washington

The new River Wear crossing is causing quite a stir.

Wear Crossing? Sunderland deserves better

What a hit Frank Bruno was when he visited the Monster Truck show in Sunderland in 1997.

Frank Bruno's knockout Sunderland visit

Protestors outside of City Hall.

Save the Glass Centre campaigners stage protest outside of City Hall

Sunderland fans in action before the club's crucial Championship play-off semi-final second leg against Coventry City at the Stadium of Light. Photo by James Copley.

Barcherini pays tribute to supporters ahead of Sheffield United final

Top tourist destinations to visit in Sunderland, as recommended by you

Wembley Stadium (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)

AI predicts Championship play-off final between SAFC and Sheff Utd

Chris Walton (left) and Michael Gray promoting the CD which was selling well in Sunderland in 1999.

Remembering Sunderland's 1999 anthem

Silksworth CW lifted the Shipowners Charity Cup this season (photo Silksworth CW)

Silksworth CW can show they mean business after successful season

A 1961 view of the Marina. It was the scene of high emotion in 1945.

Tears in Sunderland as 1945 voices heard

These are some of the sites with new food hygiene ratings across Sunderland.

Every new hygiene rating given to businesses in and around Sunderland
Inspectors have been hard at work throughout the last couple of weeks.
Jason Button

Gene Pitney who was a big hit at the Empire Theatre in Sunderland.

The American heartthrob who had Wearside fans enthusing

Hugo Minney from Durham who ran many races barefoot and spoke to the Sunderland Echo in 2011.

A retro selection of Sunderland's amazing London Marathon runners

Evie Field - aka Evie Meg - who shared childhood memories for the new series of the Wearside Echoes podcast.

'My health was devastated by a bite from a tick'

Workers at VolkerStavin with some of the eggs they have contributed to the Echo Easter Egg Appeal.

Echo readers back Easter Egg Appeal as deadline looms

Hundreds of Plessey workers attended a union meeting in Sunderland in March 1977.

Plessey jobs: The 1970s Sunderland battle

This photograph was taken in the same area of the Atlantic Ocean where the RMS Titanic sank, in 1912 (Picture: Hulton Archive/Getty Images).

Sunderland captain's Titanic discovery: Seven bodies found

Wearside Echoes has been shortlisted in the Best Local and Community Podcast category of The Publisher Podcast Awards.

Wearside Echoes: Nostalgia series 2 announced

Maybe you remember the 2011 case of the divebombing jackdaw at St Mary’s RC Primary School’.
Parents and pupils were tormented for months at the Meadowside school, and especially children when they were outside playing.

When birds attack: Crows, hawks and seagulls which went rogue

We're the city's roller derby team and we're gearing up for a big year

The series takes a quickfire look at stories from past editions of the Sunderland Echo - with numerous images from our archive.

Amazing stories in the pages of the Sunderland Echo from years gone

These are some of the sites across Sunderland with new hygiene ratings.

Every new hygiene rating given to Sunderland businesses in March
Inspectors have been hard at work throughout the last couple of weeks.
Jason Button

Hills bookshop was the go-to place to buy the next in the series - or find a completely new story. Picture: Sunderland Antiquarian Society.

A Sunderland love letter to Hills bookshop

Professor Tom Moore holds a decorative copper alloy.

Archaeologists uncover "unprecedented" hoard of Iron Age artefacts

Hope 4 Kidz chief executive Viv Watts with some of the Easter Eggs distributed at Sunderland Royal Hospital last year with healthcare assistant Helen Hudson.

Easter Egg appeal gets a boost from local firms

Elsie Ronald from Southwick Reach in 2018, with an image of herself as a child (middle).

Elsie, 91, shares life story in Sunderland

The Titanic sunk in 1912, 1,500 passengers died in the disaster

Titanic Sunderland talk: the myths unravelled

Getting in the VE Mood in 1995 were, left to right: Gail Old, Claire Tully, Andy Milford, Lesley Williams and Denise Dobson.

VE Day 1995: Sunderland Celebrations

Some of the thousands of Sunderland people who gathered outside the Town Hall on August 15, 1945 to hear that war was over.

I loved these astonishing scenes of Sunderland in 1945

These are sites in and around Sunderland with new hygiene ratings.

Every new hygiene rating given to Sunderland businesses in February

Rewarding career: Jade Tillson, a class teacher at St Peter's Elwick, a Northern Lights school.

Northern Lights offers chance to shape young lives

Sunderland's Harrison Jones - Photo by Ben Cuthbertson

Exclusive Cats transfer situation remains fluid after winter window speculation

John Foster pictured in the middle of his epic piano playing session 45 years ago.

John Foster's 50-hour piano marathon

Derek Buckham sings about Sunderland as a music city.

Sunderland music: Tribute to city by songwriter Derek

Allan Cooper from Yorkshire was having an incredibly busy day at Pallion Market in 1975.

pallion market memories: 100,000 turned up in one day

The massive floating pontoon which was towed out of Pallion's covered construction hall.

When Sunderland's last shipyard showed its mettle 25 years ago

Xenia Lettings has held an open day for landlords in Sunderland and the wider North East area.

Ad Feature Xenia Lettings hosts ‘fantastic’ open day for landlords in Sunderland

Tony Bellew

Bellew reacts as Cats transfer deal is announced after deadline day

Zoo World was in the focus in Seaburn.

The plan to bring crocodiles to Sunderland 50 years ago

Ashbrooke rugby players Pearson, Atkinson and McKenzie lined up for this photo in September 1961.

Six Nations nostalgia: 15 retro Sunderland scenes

Look at all these telephonists on duty in the Sunderland ARP Report Centre - 85 years ago this month.

Sunderland's fightback against the Nazis: Rare Echo photos from 1940

Xenia Lettings, based at Dunn House, on North Bridge Street is set to host an open day for landlords.

Ad Feature Xenia Lettings set to host an open day for landlords in Sunderland

The Teddy Bear hospital in Seaburn nearly 40 years ago.

The mobile hospital for teddy bears set up in Sunderland

Former international chef Alun Lee Davies has shared his life story with Wearside Echoes.

Chef memories podcast: Wearsider's catering journey

Former international chef Alun Lee Davies has shared his life story with Wearside Echoes.

Chef, butcher, gardener, jockey: Sunderland man's incredible career

Shipyard Girls author pays tribute to city's inspirational new statue

Vaux horses in the snow at Pallion in January 1984. Photo: Bill Hawkins.

Sunderland's snowy past in 11 iconic memories

Four more Blind Date hopefuls pictured in 2000.
They were Jamie Travis, 24; Angie Mills, 29,; Robert Foster; and Kirsty Ayre, 19.

Well chuck, here's the time when Blind Date came to Wearside

Sunderland man Harrison Jones playing for the under-21s last season.

Exclusive: Cats man open to Gateshead or Pools loan during window

Bob and Sylvia Berston who lived through bomb blasts in 1940s Sunderland.

'A German bomb shattered our windows, but my sister slept through it'

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