Images Dated 1st January 1980 (page 11)

Durham Miners Gala - Neil Kinnock is given a kiss from an admirer as he mingles with the crowds

Animals: Birds: Pollution: Sea birds covered in oil at the R. S. P. C. A
Animals: Birds: Pollution: Sea birds covered in oil at the R.S.P.C.A. Sanctuary at Perranporth in Cornwall. January 1980

Bob Nesbitt (top) and Norman Bell train in the heat and humidity chamber at Ashington

Teenage volunteers take part in a conservation project in Borough Woods near Mitford

A group of teenage conservation volunteers clear a Northberland nature reserve

Out of work school leavers at Howick Hall, battle to save a stretch of North East coastline from erosion in 1976

The girls from the youth centre in Sceptre Stree, Elswick, model the clothes they ve made for themselves (left to right) Kathleen Pickersgill, 18, Alison Lake, 17, Lisa Francis

Kitchen crew, Julie Gibson, Stephen Johnson and Anne Charlton working to ease the suffering of the elderly in the winter weather

Tony Claxton, Stephen Hall and Shaun Scott who have all landed permanent jobs after a Youth Training Scheme

Volunteer painters, l to r, Ken Wilkinson, Malcolm Reper and Malcolm Payne at Seaton Delaval

l to r, Malcolm Storey, George McCreedy and Ian Storey clean up the cemetery at Prudhoe

Ian Scarfe YTS trainee at NEI Reyrolles Hebburn receives tuition from instructor Ronald (Sandy) Sanderson

Young volunteers are paying £10 to work eight hours a day solving the mystery of
Young volunteers are paying £ 10 to work eight hours a day solving the mystery of the disappearing lake at Cragside near Rothbury

Punks painting benches at Prudhoes Oakfield Park, Mick Long, left, and Tony Monnelly

Derelict housing in an area of Newcastle - An adventure to Children finding anythig to play with even rubbish

Steven Harrison sits on a pile of wadding products at Prudhoe East Youth Centre

Cleaning the rivers of unwanted rubbish - Sara Dryclem (left) gives Caroline a helping hand with a pram

Trainee bridge -builders (left to right) Gordon Frampton, Kevin Hall, Peter Grant, and Kevin Kidger, with supervisor John Steel at Boldon in South Tyenside

Kitted up and ready for workd are rescuers Bob Nesbitt from Ashington, John Tench from Ashington and Norman Bell of Bates Colliery

Teenagers hang about, bored, in Eldon Square, Newcastle

Cleaning the rivers of unwanted rubbish - Neil Kelly and Nick Rowell have a barrel of fun

Civic Trust Award winners (left to right) Patrick, foremand George Copeland, Steven, Gavin, Andrew and William. Sitting, Kevin

Showing off their work - YTS youngsters and Tanfield Railway official Derek Charlton with right, MSC assistant manager Fred Crow

A group teenagers pleased with their efforts after having worked on an old car

Joinery trainee Terry Gough (left) with supervisor Billy Carr at a workshop in Walker

Northumbria Ambulance Service Youth Training Scheme Trainees at the start of their course with secretary Jacqui Slimin

Trainees at the I Tech department of British Shipbuilders training company in Hebburn - (l - r) Peter Lewis, Martin Ainscow, Chris Beard, Paul Arnott and David Hogg

Volunteers youngsters collect heather at Cragside in Northumberland

The founding members of the Riverside Entretainments project for young people

A group of teenagers gathering on a Newcastle Street have a chat and get together

The Business Training Centre in Sunderland - manager Hilary Guthrie and some of the girls on the course

Robert Goward, aged 19, of Hadston, Northumberland, at work on the Amble beach wall in 1979

Mark Tolchard and Paul Anderson fitting a safety chain for Rita King in Prudhoe

Malcolm Hodgson supervises trainee Keith Brown at the Tynedale Construction Training Group

Bricklaying Trainees at the Pallion Residents Enterprise, l to r, Frank Duffy, Ian Allan, Darren Ramsey and Dean McClusky

Pupils from Benfield School perform Gregorys Girl - from left, Lee Shanks, David Young, Micky Hall, Sohaib Khalid, Joanne Potts (on shoulders), Ian Coulson

Teenagers enjoy the social side of a Youth Club, chatting and reading

Mel Smith, Griff Rhys - Jones. P005949

Dawn, the horse shows a certain reluctance to pull the replica 18th Century horse drawn wooden coal wagon at Causey Arch picnic area

Pit pony Stevie and handler Alex Pickering

Teenagers Alan Quinnin and Bill Hutchinson start the clean-up after vandals wrecked havoc at the village green in Seaton Delaval

Pit pony Pip with handler, Mr. Keith Houghton at Beamish Open Air Museum

Chef Tony Mead with the haggises kept on ice at a South Shields hotel in preparation for a haggis hurling contest

Gatreshead Amateur Operatic Society in costume for their dress rehearsal of the play White Horse Inn

The chorus of Berwick Amateir Operatic Society with home made costumes and parasols

Lilian Martin as Calamity Jane from Whitley Bay Operatic Society

Beaconsfield Operatic Society needed some muscle for their production of the musical South Pacific, so bodybuilder John Stephenson, with Kathleen Holdroyd (front) and Susan King applied

Final preparations are under way for the latest production by Consett Theatre Workshop, The Importance of Being Earnest. In rehearsals are (left to right) Dick Junemann, John Brame, Audrey Lowes

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