Festival time! 13 photos from the Cookson Country Festival 20 years ago

Altogether now. Here’s a whole gallery of magnificently musical memories from Bents Park 20 years ago.

The crowds turned out in force for the Cookson Country Festival in South Shields and here’s the scene on the day Go West and Dr and the Medics performed.

Our Shields Gazette photographers got pictures from the stage, the crowds and the fun everyone had as they listened to the music.

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