Stardust and £2.99 shirts: A double bill you wouldn't want to miss 50 years ago

Fifty years ago, you would be snapping up these offers from Lees Phase 3 in Ocean Road.

A cracking bargain with cotton sheets at £2.95

The South Shields shop was advertising ‘fashion shirts for Spring’ in all colours and they were machine washable.

If it was your home you were sprucing up, how about a ‘class divan set for £89.95 from Binns’. The headboard would cost you extra.

You could get cotton sheets to go with it for £2.95 and quit covers from £5.95.

A sprinkling of Stardust at the ABC

While you were at it, Holdens Furnishing Centre in Fowler Street had new designs on the way to brighten up your home in a 1975 style.

All that was advertised on a packed front page of the Shields Gazette 50 years ago this week and to give you more of a reminder of the era, there was a star-studded film on at the ABC.

David Essex, Adam Faith and Larry Hagman were the famous faces in Stardust which was showing three times a day at 2.40pm, 5.30pm and 8.20pm, and twice on Sundays.

Waggoner’s Walk on Radio 2

Or how about a spot of radio.

That Friday’s highlights on Radio 1 included Rosko’s Round Table or you could get Waggoner’s Walk and Ricochet on Radio 2.

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