What it cost to live in Sunderland 50 years ago

The price of corned beef, bread, clothes, tape recorders and nights out in 1974.

Transcript

00:00How much do you think it cost to live in Sunderland 50 years ago?

00:05We have the answer, thanks to a delve into the Echo archives and a look back at Bynns,

00:11the vestry, Woolco and more.

00:14Corned beef was 50p at Disco Stone Rye and how about a loaf for 11.5p?

00:22Ladybird skirts were 50p in the Bynns sale and you could get corduroys from Jeremy Adam

00:28for £6.95.

00:31New cassette tape recorder?

00:33Yours from the vestry at just 14.75, let's relax at the pictures.

00:39It was 22p for kids to get in to the Saturday afternoon movie at the Empire in Seaham.

00:46For the grown ups, medieval banquets were a snip at £4.25 at Lumley Castle, wine and

00:53entertainment included.

00:55Tell us about the places you shopped at in the mid-1970s, email chris.cordner at nationalworld.com