Remember these iconic 1960s South Tyneside businesses?

Take a nostalgic journey through the hallmark businesses that defined South Tyneside in the 1960s. Do you recognise any?

We certainly do. It’s a great line-up which includes Plesseys, John Readheads, Harton Dyeworks and Hepworths.

There are 15 to identify from 1960 to 1969. Get browsing through our Shields Gazette archive collection.

13. Bakers in 1967

Bakers fish and chip shop is in the forefront of this 1967 photo at the Whiteleas shopping parade. | sg

Workers at the South Shields Plessey Group factory making part of the switching mechanism used in telephone exchange racks. | sg

Mrs A Oxley, shop assistant at F J Cook's pork butcher shop in Frederick Street, preparing saveloy sausages for sandwiches. | sg

The window display of Graham and Warren, South Shields travel agents in January 1969. | sg