10 factories you may have worked in back in the old days: How many do you recognise

People often travel far and wide for their jobs but did you do it in times gone by?

Here are 10 North East factories you may remember from decades ago. Perhaps you or someone you know worked in one of them.

Our selection spans from South Shields to Sunderland, Peterlee to Pallion and Hartlepool to Hebburn.

So take a look and see if there’s a former workplace that you can recall.

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Television sets being built at the Sunderland factory of Perdio Electronics Ltd in 1963. Photo: se

Who remembers the Aladdin factory in Hartlepool and did you work at the plant which made thermos flasks in Brenda Road? Photo: hm

How many factories did you recognise? Why not share memories of the places you worked at by emailing [email protected] Photo: se