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