Retro

Making music in this wonderful scene from the school in 2006.

Having a class time at Hadrian Primary School: Let's go retro

Scheduled blackouts were last used in the UK in the 1970s. (Credit: Getty Images)

Winter struggles of 1972: South Tyneside memories

Thumbs up for your memories of this great scene from Mill Dam.

11 wonderful photos from a 2016 night at the Waterfront

This look back at Albert Road shows the street in the days of Amos family butchers as well as how it looks now.

Jarrow history book shows town's changes

The Wednesday evening dance class at Luke Lane Community Centre, Hebburn. Were you one of the members?

Stunning Lukes Lane photos from 1990 to 2011

Sheffield off-licence gets booze green light despite petition calling on council to stop it Johnny Green/PA Wire

Drink in the memories of the 1975 South Tyneside walkout

Cleadon Marines Band leading the parade of jazz bands along Ocean Road to the carnival at Bents Park in April 1971. Remember this?

Bents Park Road’s nostalgic past revisited

Tyne Dock in 1961 and the view which awaited residents of the new flats.

Tyne Dock Flats: The story of a 1961 floral transformation

Bolingbroke Hall was one of the venues which hosted wrestling in South Shields.

Wrestling nostalgia: South Shields' iconic moments

Protesting pupils who marched from West Park Comprehensive School to the Shields Gazette office.

When 200 South Tyneside school pupils went on strike

The Beatles performing in 1963.

South Shields musician's bond with Lennon

Looking back to Laygate Primary School in this Year 3 archive photo from 2003.

Year 3 memories: Nostalgic school look back

A profile of Victor Grunhut.

Victor showed no sign of retiring when he was 90

Kenneth Rickenton was sheltering under the umbrella from the poor weather in South Tyneside in August 1985.

9 great reminders of life in South Tyneside 40 years ago

The icy conditions on the approach to South Shields town centre got our photographer's attention in 2009.

South Tyneside gritter scenes: And UK's funniest gritter names

Landlord Bob Overton at the tills in his pub on the day when the TV cameras were there.

Inspector George Gently and the South Shields pub: 9 photos from 2010

And action. Let’s have a look at the day the Inspector George Gently TV crew came to South Shields.

Chris Cordner

Flora Arnott celebrated 25 years at Fellgate Primary School in 2003. Were you pictured as you helped her to mark the occasion?

Fellgate's past in a superb selection of scenes

Harry Secombe who was in big demand in South Shields.

Harry was on the way and it was big South Tyneside news

Bob Welsh, retail manager of the South Shields branch of Associated Dairies pictured with a selection of goods available from the company's milk floats.

11 views of South Tyneside life as it looked 50 years ago

St Paul's Church in Jarrow which one of many South Tyneside venues included in the Paranormal Database.

The Jarrow chair which granted three wishes - or a pregnancy

The Horsley Hill Hotel was on Marsden Road, South Shields. It closed in 2005 but was it somewhere you loved to go in its heyday?

Marsden Road: A South Shields street in the retro spotlight

Snow covered rooftops on the Lawe Top in this Shields Gazette archive photo from 2008.

Icy South Tyneside memories in photos

The rise of one armed bandits was making South Tyneside headlines sixty years ago.

Penny for your thoughts on this 1965 South Tyneside fruit machine tale

Workers from Rohm and Haas were cycling from Barrow in Furness to Sunderland for charity in 2005.

9 times we got Rohm and Haas on camera: Re-live these Jarrow memories

A food rationing scene from January 1940

A meaty issue which hit South Tyneside in the 1950s

The front page of the Shields Gazette on VE Day in 1945.

1945: The year when South Tyneside was finally freed from war

South Shields and Jarrow's under-14 teams battling it out in the snow of 1970.

Snow football in South Tyneside: The blizzard years

Ah those were the days. When you played local footy on snowbound pitches.

Chris Cordner

Harton Comprehensive had its own traffic programme in January 1980 and the school was given a motor bike to help with safety lessons.

South Tyneside school kids in January photos

Raquel Welch was one of four stars on the bill of a blockbuster movie showing in Jarrow in 1976.

All this was part of your South Tyneside January highlights in 1976

Temple Park Leisure Centre back in April 1979.

10 memorable photos of Temple Park pool. Dive in

A January 1991 beginners' aerobics class at Temple Park Leisure Centre.

Shape up with a retro trip to 9 South Tyneside gyms

A motorist struggles to clear deep snow away from his car in the Big Freeze of 1963.

Minus 18: When South Tynesiders defied the snow in 1963

Rev John Maughan who swapped football for a life in the church.

Vicar John Maughan's journey: From football to the church

US President Abraham Lincoln. (Picture: Alexander Gardner/US Library of Congress via Getty Images)

The Jarrow hero who helped a dying US President

Miss N Collingwood, assistant matron at the Ingham Infirmary, switches on the background music which was installed for a trial period in January 1965.

A look back at the Ingham: But who are the people in the picture?

Here is Staiano's Expresso Bar in Frederick Street in 1974.

Wrap up for memories of South Tyneside in Januaries past

Ronnie Rutherford, Len Smith and Billy Thompson relax in the hotel before the match.

South Shields' FA Cup heroics: Fans memories wanted

Operation Elvis was a stage hit at Bedewell Primary School 16 years ago and it gave children the chance to dress up as Elvis - and other rock and roll stars.

A burning love for Elvis who would have been 90 this month

All this happened 30 years ago in South Tyneside

Things you'll remember if you went to school in the 1970s

A South Shields favourite in the 1970s. Get in touch and tell us more if you worked there - or perhaps loved the nights out at Ruperts.

Were you part of the Ruperts revolution in South Shields?

Former West Boldon postmaster Christopher Head.

'A huge honour but I'm still fighting' Campaigner's OBE reaction

Dave scored this bullet header for Sunderland against Luton in the 1973 FA Cup run. The talented centre half - and one-time centre forward - played 177 times for Sunderland and 65 times for England.

'It's an immense honour': Wife of SAFC legend made an MBE

South Shields man Harold Bricis whose life story was full of drama and bravery.

Harald Bricis: The South Shields man who won the Iron Cross

The Sports Week Inter Social Clubs Dance and Competition at the Elmfield Social Club in Hebburn in 1983.

9 South Tyneside clubs where you could have seen in the New Year

Raising a glass to memories of a great night out at Tinker Smiths.

Taking you back to a Tinker Smiths New Year night out

The star of the hit TV series Callan: Edward Woodward. Photo: Dove/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

The Shields man behind Britain's biggest TV drama of the 1970s

7 gadgets you may recognise if you grew up in the 1980s. Photo: Scott Gries/ImageDirect/ Getty Images

7 nostalgic gadgets you'll only remember if you grew up in the 80s

Dame Irene Hays, Owner and Director of Hays Travel. Picture: DAVID WOOD

Boss of national travel chain delivers brand prediction for 2025

Colin Burgin-Plews in one of his many amazing dresses that he has used to raise money for charity.

‘Big Pink Dress’ Colin to run despite cancer battle

Nine video games you may have played in the 1980s - including arcade classics.

Nine retro video games you may have played in the 80s

Nine pictures showing what life was like in South Tyneside in 1972

How South Shields looked in the 1980s

The era when wrestling was really taking hold in South Shields.

When 2,000 wrestling fans watched an epic clash in South Shields

Faces galore in these nostalgic photos from the Chichester Arms

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