You were singing along to Elvis and Helen Shapiro and watching Hancock’s Half Hour and Dixon f Dock Green on television.
But closer to home, all of this was happening in South Tyneside in the early 1960s.
St Cuthbert’s Girls School had just opened and Round Table members were constructing a new children’s playground at South Shields Hospital.
Boldon Colliery Workmen’s Band and Hepworth’s new shop in King Street also got the attention of Shields Gazette photographers.
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1. Concert time in 1961
Some of the members of Boldon Colliery Workmen's Silver Prize Band who gave a concert in Boldon Colliery Miners' Hall in October 1961. Photo: Shields Gazette
2. Setting up stall in 1964
Setting up their South Shields Sports Week stall in the Maket Place in 1964 were, left to right: Coun J Marshall, treasurer; Norman Bell, secretary; Mrs Marshall; Ald J A Clark, chairman of South Shields Sports Week committee. Photo: Shields Gazette
3. A new arrival on King Street
Hepworth's new shop in King Street, pictured in March 1961. Photo: Shields Gazette
4. Pictured at infants school
Biddick Hall County Infants School in November 1962. Photo: Shields Gazette