Remembering 1997: 24 pictures show the way we were in the North East 20 years ago

Can it really be 20 years since Cool Britannia, the film Titanic, and Newcastle United’s Tino Asprilla hit the headlines? We head back top 1997, a time when the average price of a house in the UK was around 68,000, a gallon of petrol was 2.70, and a pint of lager would knock you back 1.83. In the pop charts it was the era of Oasis and The Spice Girls , while at the cinema The Full Monty and Jurassic Park were pulling in the punters.