Vaux - 25 years on from its last day
Re-live the scenes from the last day of Vaux Brewery.
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00:00It was a sad day in Sunderland history and it happened 25 years ago. It was on July 2nd 1999 that Vaux closed and the echo got these views of staff as they left for one last time.
00:17Managing Director Frank Nicholson made it his personal mission to thank every member of staff for all the hard work.
00:26Just days after it closed the brewery's signs came down and by September that year the final throes of the business were marked with an auction of Vaux property.
00:38Thousands of people flocked to the site for the auction of transport and equipment.
00:44Vaux had provided Sunderland with jobs for 162 years. If you worked there, share your memories by emailing chris.cordner at nationalworld.com