The cold winter nights are here but how did you spend your Januarys gone by?
Did you enjoy the snow, get wrapped up to go shopping, or plan nights out with entertainment?
Maybe you would warm up those freezing days with an espresso in South Shields, or a tipple at your favourite bar.
All these photos were taken in the first month of years past. How many do you remember?
1. Keeping busy with a new hobby
Maybe you got through winter by taking up a new hobby. Here is a 1986 guitar class. Can you spot someone you know? Photo: Shields Gazette
2. Enjoying the snow in 1986
Perhaps you embraced the conditions and went out in the snow, like this family pictured sledging on the Cleadon Hills in January 1986. Photo: Shields Gazette
3. Venturing onto the high street
Maybe you brave the cold and warmed yourself up with a hot brew. Here is Staiano's Expresso Bar in Frederick Street in 1974. Photo: Shields Gazette
4. How about a night out?
Did you get through the winters nights with a spot of live entertainment, perhaps at Jarrow Ex-Servicemen's club pictured here in January 1964. Photo: Shields Gazette