Chickens, Easter hats and kings and queens! 9 of the cutest archive scenes from the excellent nurseries of South Tyneside

The answer is they were all photographed at nurseries across South Tyneside in years gone by.

We are putting the spotlight on the nurseries in the borough after Nurserytime South Shields was in the headlines in the Gazette recently.

We told how Carole Stephen, an oral health educator from St Michael's Dental Practice in Westoe Road, visited the nursery to talk to children about the importance of oral hygiene.

It got us thinking about all the other great work we have seen and here are nine examples from our archives, covering everything from lessons on road safety to making Easter hats.