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Les Waugh and his gian champion leeks in September 1994
Craig Smith and Gail Smith measure the size of a leek, watched by Joanne Kindley and Amanda Bell with teacher John Strachan in August 1984
Ernie Lightfoot chairman of the National Pot Leek Society with his prize leeks in October 1996
These gigantic leeks were two of the exhibits judge Fred Palmer had to examine at the Evening Chronicle Fower and Vegetable and Leek Show in September 1974
Some well cared for allotments on Rectory Road in Gateshead in July 1995
The Leek Show at Beamish Museum and judge Dennis Ash inspect one of the entries in September 1996
William Marley is a prize leek grower at 12 year ols and gets a kiss from his mum, Mary, and sister Margaret because he won the £ 100 top prize
A typical scene from a North East Library in October 1993
Flanked by the stone walls of Langley Castle near Haydon Bridge, the meet of the haydon Foxhounds presented a typical English winter scene in December 1953
Sylvia Armstrong, aged 18, of Great Lumley, holds the horse for David Mould before he takes part in jousting practices of Lumley Castle, Chester-le-Street. in May 1972
Some of the people taking part in a jousting competition at Lumley Castle, Chester-le-Street in May 1972
John Mordan tried being a Knight for a day at Langley Castle, but found it hard to take an aggressive stance wearing 30 lbs. of steel armour in June 1972
Some of the Knights taking part in a jousting competition at Lumley Castle, Chester-le-Street in May 1972
Two Knights clash at a jousting tournament in July 1984
The Tyneside based Master At Arms Society were giving a display entitled " Duelling Through the Ages" at Whitley Bay summer show in August 1976
Knights jousting at Alnwick Castle in August 1985
Knights on horseback clash at a jousting tournament in June 1984
Max Diamond and Frank Hayden of the British Jousting Society in Sunderland for the Wearmouth 1300 Festival in May 1973
Knaves in jerkins and steel helmets battle with quarter staffs during the jousting at Lumley Castle, Chester-le-Street in May 1972
The Nottingham Jousting Association members in combat at the Cramlington Show in June 1984
Ther is such a thing as a flying pig in May 1993
The second annual kite festivel on the links in Whitley Bay gets underway, with people from all over the United Kingdom flying their kites
From top to bottom Tommy Thompson, Ann Armstrong, Sharon Simmons and Tommys sister Nichola are holding a jumble sale on Elswick Road
Tyneside youngsters were flying their kites when the Childrens Warehouse kite festival was held on the Town Moor, Newcastle in August 1987
Tony Nesbit, 10, from Sunderland getting expert help from kite master Mr. Takeshi Nishibayashi in July 1988
Kites at Washingtons Northern Area Playing fields for the annual festival in June 1995
High flyer Malcolm goodman recksons hes a record-breaker at pulling a few strings. The 33 year old Cleveland audio-visual engineer has managed to get 16 kites off the ground so far in November 1976
These boots were made for walking for the right price at this local jumble sale in May 1979
Bill Calvert and Ian Ericson of The Eagle Of The North Historical Group at a weekly training session in February 1977
A participant in the annual kite festival at Washington in July 1996
People trying to find a bargain at this antiques fair at Gateshead Leisure Centre in April 1994
A participant in the annual kite festival at Washington in June 1995
Kite master Mr. Takeshi Nishibayashi (right) with one of his creations in July 1988
French airborn artist Michael Gressier will use the skies above Washington as his canvas when he flys his new creation in the towns Festival of the Air in August 1987
These four knights are limbering up for the medieval games at Lumley Castle, near Chester-le-Street in May 1972
Members of the Nottingham Jousting Association at the Cramlington Show in June 1984
The RAF gave Michael Browely a special sixteenth birthday present - his first solo flight in a glider in August 1971. For about 10 minutes Michael piloted the glider above RAF Ouston, Northumberland
Models of Viking longships are burnt on the beach at Cullercoats Bay in July 1980
A Viking longboat on the river Tyne for the Newcastle Regatta in July 1980
Swiss glider pilot Karl Sheuber came to Northumbria Gliding Club and put on an impressive display, in August 1972, in a new type of glider the Pilatus B4 which is made entirely of metal
A hang glider flying over the Cleveland countryside in March 1975
A hang glider takes to the air in November 1982
Gliders at Northumbria Gliding Club grounded on the air field in February 1995
NCB apprentices are reaching for the sky and pioneering a new course arranged by the Coal Industry Social and Welfare Organisation by learning the basic of gliding in July 1974
These hang gliders have a long hard trek back up the hill to start again in March 1975
