Dancers, The Drifters and dedicated artists – we’ve got it all in a flashback to South Tyneside in the late 1980s.
Here are nine photos you might remember if you lived in South Tyneside between 1986 and 1989.
It’s the era of Roseanne and the Wonder Years on TV and Tiffany in the charts.
Back in the borough, we had scenes from Bents Park, South Shields Cricket Club and Simonside Junior Mixed School.
Read on if you want to find out more

1. Everyone join in!
Staff of Woolworths store in South Shields conga their way round the South Marine Park lake for Sport Relief in May 1986. Did you take part? | SG Photo: Shields Gazette

2. Cheers to the memories
An August 1988 scene and it shows customers and staff at the New Ferry Tavern, South Shields. Who do you recognise? | SG Photo: Shields Gazette

3. So artistic in Simonside
Pupils from Simonside Junior Mixed Infant School with their end of term artwork in July 1989. | SG Photo: Shields Gazette

4. A huge hit
A huge audience greeted The Drifters when they came on stage for their concert in Bents Park in 1989. Were you there? | SG Photo: Shields Gazette