It’s a black-and-white photograph of a young man wearing a vintage gas mask as he stretched to smell the magnolias. Reproduced instantly and ever since, it came to symbolize the occasion.

This week marks the anniversary of a sinister twist in Wearside history - when Sunderland stored thousands of gas masks as worldwide unrest grew. News you can trust since 1873 Sign In ...

The gas mask is of a type issued to civil defence volunteers such as ARP wardens (photo: Mike Cockerill) Nick Moore said: “One layer of bricks isn't going to do much.

A World War Two replica gas mask on loan from a museum for a window display was accidentally sold by a charity shop. The artefact was put in the window at St Roccos Hospice shop in Stockton Heath ...