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What it cost to live in Sunderland 50 years ago
Sunderland Echo
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19/07/2024
The price of corned beef, bread, clothes, tape recorders and nights out in 1974.
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How much do you think it cost to live in Sunderland 50 years ago?
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We have the answer, thanks to a delve into the Echo archives and a look back at Bynns,
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the vestry, Woolco and more.
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Corned beef was 50p at Disco Stone Rye and how about a loaf for 11.5p?
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Ladybird skirts were 50p in the Bynns sale and you could get corduroys from Jeremy Adam
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for £6.95.
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New cassette tape recorder?
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Yours from the vestry at just 14.75, let's relax at the pictures.
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It was 22p for kids to get in to the Saturday afternoon movie at the Empire in Seaham.
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For the grown ups, medieval banquets were a snip at £4.25 at Lumley Castle, wine and
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entertainment included.
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Tell us about the places you shopped at in the mid-1970s, email chris.cordner at nationalworld.com
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