The cold winter nights are here but how did you spend your Januarys gone by?
Did you enjoy the snow, get wrapped up to go shopping, or plan nights out with entertainment?
Maybe you would warm up those freezing days with an espresso in South Shields, or a tipple at your favourite bar.
All these photos were taken in the first month of years past. How many do you remember?
5. Shopping on King Street
Back to January 1968 and these people spent their winter day enjoying the bargains in Woolworths on King Street. | SG Photo: Shields Gazette
6. A bracing game of football
A lot of you would brace the January weather to enjoy a game of football. Back to January 1972 for this view of the South Tyne Senior League side YMCA. Pictured back row: left to right: F Griffiths, C Nichols, R Purves, B Wray, R Elgar, D Addison and W Johnson. Front: I Borthwick, J Pearson, J Sword, R Elgar, M Dawson, A Duncan. | SG Photo: Shields Gazette
7. A drink at Zolsa's
Maybe you would while away an hour or two with a drink in Zolsa's bar, pictured here in 1983. | SG Photo: Shields Gazette
8. A trip to Comet
Perhaps your day would include a trip to the new Comet discount centre in Jarrow, pictured in 1973. | SG Photo: Shields Gazette