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Antique fire engine on display at the Summer Exhibition in 1982
One of the super tankers take shape at Swan Hunter shipbuilders in Wallsend, towering over the nearby houses
A ship being built at a shipyard along the River Tyne
Butcher William Barnard gives meat away to OAPs in Camden town. Every Saturday morning he gives away approximately five shillings worth of meat to each of over 100 pensioners. July 1957
Mr. W. Fraser, stores manager at Irvins North Shields with a moedl trawl net in 1949
Paul Bowman brings some smoked cod from the ovens in 1991
Matthew Stanton and Henry Rowe repairing their fishing net in whcih a whale became entangled in 1959
A fisherman brings in his net with a fair sized catch in 1996
Salmon men hauling in the nets on the River Tweed at Berwick in 1980
A women cooking traditional fish and chips
Fisherlassies at North Shields Fish Quay hard at work in 1931
Rena Welsh with mussels at her side and 1, 200 hooks in front of her waiting to be baited at Gourdon just south of Aberdeen, circa 1979
Ravages of the sea. Fishermen repairing crab pots on Tynemouth Haven. 12th September 1936
Fisherman John Rutherford sorts his catch in 1980
Fishing boats at North Shields Fish Quay in 1995
Fishwives in Newcastle in 1930
The jungle of steel and concrete is the heart of the River Wear industry seen from the Monkwearmouth Bridge at Sunderland
Betty McHugh, 20 and Betty Knaggs, 16, making nets making fishing nets at Richard Irvin & Sons at North Shields in 1953
The dry dock at the Austin and Pickergill Shipyard, Sunderland
Making ground ropes for trawl nets at Irvins of North Shields in 1949
For the first time in 46 years the two sections of the gate of No 2 dry dock at Swan Hunter shipbuilders in Wallsend, were romoved today for major maintenance repairs
Scottish fishergirls at work during a busy spell after a big herring catch at North Shields in 1947
One of the Esso super tankers take shape at Swan Hunter shipbuilders in Wallsend, towering over the nearby houses
The oil-tanker Esso Portsmouth undergoes surgery at Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson shipyard in Wallsend, River Tyne
Fishermen mending herring nets aboard their drifter, at North Shields fish quay. 7th September 1935
The midshape and stern section of the World Galde during the undocking operation at Palmers Yard in Hebburn, River Tyne
The first half of a 46, 000 ton ship was launched today without ceremony yesterday from the Southwick Yard of Austin and Pickersgill on the River Wear, while this half, the stern
The centre portion of the oil-tanker Cadillac, which was launched without ceremony at Palmers Shipyard, Hebburn, River Tyne
A dramatic sunset at one the River Tynes shipyards in 1948
The British Cavalier, the biggest ship to be built on the Wear, pictured on the stocks at J L Thompsons Shipyard at Sunderland
This is the SS Harpagus completed by William Doxford, Sunderland, in November 1942. On 19 August 1944, she was blown in two by a mine off Arromanches. The forepart sank
The 21, 000-ton ship Demerterton towers above the offices at the shipyard of John Redhead and Son Limited at South Shields
Police officers Mick Richens and Robbie Cutler of Northumbria River Police with the new jet skis
A police officer patrols on his Harley Davidson motorcycle
Corporal Brian Baker of the Royal Marines who comes from Newcastle is seen in London having a quick polish of his boots by Stuart Redmand who is a regular shoe polisher in Londons Piccadilly
Postman Mr. Fred Henderson in happy mood as he delivers his mail. April 1975
PC Billy Baines, right, in the 1920s when he was a competitor with South Shields police first aid team
This group of sternvisiaged, moustachioed and bearded body of solid citizens was the detective force deployed when the Prince and Princes of Wales were in Newcastle on June 20, 1900
A woman police officer from the 1919 - 1930 era
A police patrol car does a skid through a puddle
A group of police officers pose for the camera
Metropolitian police - OPS on parade in 1919 - a line-up of Crossleys and Jowetts police cars
A row of police motorcycles ready for action
Police officer Dave Lyall patrols the A686 between Haydon Bridge and Alston on his motorcycle
A transport police officer scans the tracks with his binoculars
A police officer drives a new rapid response patrol car
Instructor Tim Shaw puts the new police jet ski through its paces on the river Tyne at Newcastle
A group of mobile police officers with a police van 1910 - 1920 circa
