IT is Newton Aycliffe's 75th birthday and we are again turning back the clock to see how the town looked in days gone by.

The town is celebrating the milestone after it was founded on this very day in 1947, under the New Towns Act, when the order was confirmed and offcially signed.

Read more: The County Durham town created on this day 75 years ago

Going back into our archives, we've picked out four landmarks captured frozen in time and compared them to more recent occasions (albeit snowy).

Remember The Big Club on Sheraton Road, and what the leisure centre and Beveridge Arcade used to look like?

Using our interactive slide tool with your mouse, you can see how each area compares both, then and in recent years.

1. 'The Big Club' on Sheraton Road pictured in the 1960s, one of the best known landmarks in Newton Aycliffe

2. The Newton Aycliffe Leisure Centre while under construction in 1974, it later suffered a fire in 1980s and was redesigned

3. Beveridge Way in Newton Aycliffe town centre pictured in 1962 - much of it remains recognisable to this day

4. The Iron Horse pub on Emerson Way captured as it was in 1954, it has retained its original name

Read more: The County Durham town created on this day 75 years ago

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