Would just like to add that Armstrongs on Scotswood Road was latterly Vickers Armstrong  - my dear late father-in-law worked there. As for Blaydon Races, I attended the centenary in 1962 - that makes me feel so old! Though a Sunderland lass,I still pop down from the Borders to Newcastle occasionally for a day's shopping & Fenwick's is a must.I bought my "going away outfit" there in 1965 & my mother of the bride outfit in 1992.Happy memories. Marie Kerr