Bank Holiday crowds at the South Marine Park watch as a steam engine takes another load of passengers for a trip around the lake. Does this bring back memories from the early 1980s? | sg

placeholder image — Bank Holiday crowds at the South Marine Park watch as a steam engine takes another load of passengers for a trip around the lake. Does this bring back memories from the early 1980s? | sg

I stepped back to South Tyneside in the 1980s and this is what I found

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Published 28th Mar 2025, 15:34 GMT

Well that was an eye-opening journey - to South Shields as it looked 40 years ago.

I travelled back to 1980s South Tyneside and found all of this going on in the Shields Gazette archives.

You were tucking into lunch at South Shields Comprehensive, trying out the steam engine at South Marine Park and watching the last days of a structure at Geordie’s Jetty.

Throw in a serving of sea front fish and chips and it’s a tasty treat of memories.

17. Ready to perform in 1989

South Shields Amateur Operatic Society members who were performing in Calamity Jane. Pictured left to right are: Denny Wilson, Lyndsey McCaffery, Helen Lowther, Peter Brack, Alan Greaves, John Ridley, Enid Bilton, Peter Charlton with Lucky, and Lawrence Chadwick. | sg Photo: Shields Gazette

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I stepped back to South Tyneside in the 1980s and this is what I found

Well that was an eye-opening journey - to South Shields as it looked 40 years ago.

17. Ready to perform in 1989

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