All aboard for a gallery of memories of Wearside nanas and grandads on their over-60s summer coach trips.
We just love these Echo photos from the 1970s and 1980s, showing Sunderland pensioners having a great time as they headed to Gretna Green, Scarborough, and the Border Country.
See if you can spot someone you know from the Steels Club, Hylton Castle over-60s, Ryhope over-60s or the Wearmouth Colliery pensioners.
See if you can spot someone you know from the Steels Club, Hylton Castle over-60s, Ryhope over-60s or the Wearmouth Colliery pensioners.
![Some of the 160 pensioners leaving Hylton Castle Workingmen's Club for a trip to Knaresborough in 1979.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/06/10/15/06/A%20wave%20from%20Hylton%20Castle.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=800)
5. A wave from Hylton Castle
Some of the 160 pensioners leaving Hylton Castle Workingmen's Club for a trip to Knaresborough in 1979. | se
![More than 460 people set off on Wearmouth Colliery's annual trip in 1980.
Ten coach loads left Wallace Street for Gretna Green and Dumfries after an early start.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/06/10/15/02/Gretna%20bound.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=800)
6. Gretna bound
More than 460 people set off on Wearmouth Colliery's annual trip in 1980. Ten coach loads left Wallace Street for Gretna Green and Dumfries after an early start. | se
![Members of Ryhope Over 60 Club setting off on their trip to the Border Country in 1982.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/06/10/15/07/On%20their%20way%20from%20Ryhope.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=800)
7. On their way from Ryhope
Members of Ryhope Over 60 Club setting off on their trip to the Border Country in 1982. | se
![Eighty members of the Southwick Luncheon Club headed to Northumberland and had a fish and ship supper in Whitley Bay in 1983.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/06/10/15/33/A%20day%20trip%20with%20fish%20and%20chips.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=800)
8. A day trip with fish and chips
Eighty members of the Southwick Luncheon Club headed to Northumberland and had a fish and ship supper in Whitley Bay in 1983. | se