

9 South Tyneside retro photos from the day you had your legs, back, arms and chest waxed. Ouch!
Have a look at these photos which might well make you wince. Each of these South Tyneside fundraisers had a charity waxing in the past and we feel their pain.
So if you braved a waxing in Argos, St Wilfrid’s, the Customs House, the Top Club or The Kelly, here’s too you, you heroic lot.

1. What a brave effort from John
John Sykes parted with his facial hair at the Navy Club in Hartlepool. Who remembers this charity event from 2003? Photo: DW

2. A close shave at High Tunstall
This sponsored shave at High Tunstall College of Science got a huge crowd in 2005. Remember it? Photo: TC

3. Many moustaches at TRW
Movember moustaches aplenty at TRW in 2012. Were you pictured? Photo: FRANK REID

4. Well done Jim
Back in 1984, retired miner Jim Smith raised £200 for charity by parting with the moustache he’d had for 22 years. It was a magnificent handlebar tache which he said goodbye to for a very worthy cause - the Ethiopian famine appeal. Photo: hm