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A participant in the annual kite festival at Washington in July 1996
Kites at Washingtons Northern Area Playing fields for the annual festival in June 1995
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
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
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
The Whitsun Fair at Hearsall Common, Coventry. These two children try their luck hooking a duck. 31st May 1971
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
The ladies from the Womens Institute wait for their turn to take to the skies in a glider in July 1983 and lead the WI movement into a new era of adventure
Six engineers from the British Gas Research Corporation built this hang glider from plans for £ 50 in January 1974
Helping hands get Gordon Smith ready to take to the air in his Hang Glider in April 1978
Paul Quinn and John Dixon of the Northumbria Hang Gliding Club during a practice session on Newcastles Town Moor in September 1980
Cramlington Gliding Club members hauling into position their new machine. It is the gift of Mr. W. L. Runciman in March 1938
An aerial picture of a glider from the Northumbria Gliding Club in February 1995
Hang gliding with North Yorks Sail Wing Club in March 1975. Instructor Dick Christon takes to the air like a bird
Nine year old Marion Scott in a 1923 Brownie uniform whcih cost £9. 6dNine year old Marion Scott in a 1923 Brownie uniform whcih cost £ 9. 6d. for the dress and 8d. for the tie
The highest distinction in the Guiding movement, the Queens Guide Award has gone to two Tyneside girls. Christine Thompson 14, of Benton and Jane Wood
Any old paper? Thats the chant of this band of Brownies in the Northumberland village of Stamfordham in November 1974. The girls sell the paper they collect to go towards the renovation of
Nine year old Marion Scott in a 1974 Brownie Uniform. The current tinic costs about £ 1.50, the tie 18p and the beret 35p
The 1st Denton Girl Guide Company had something to celebrate when two of their members, Helen Younger and Helen Lane, received their Queens Guide Award in April 1982
Visitors to Cramlingtons 14th annual show witnessed a spectacular show by the Nottingham Joust Association in June 1984
A large Brownie pack enjoying a day out in May 1974
Brownies of the 11th Newcastle pack were special guests at the wedding of Miss Shirley Anne Marshall in December 1974, for she is their Brown Owl
Members of the 1st Ryton Brownies skipped 3, 000 skips to buy 30 rose bushes for the villages old peoples home and to provide money towards an outing for its residents in February 1974
Sixty four year olf Anti Brydon took on councillor Ian Gordon in a marble marathon through the streets of Cramlington, Northumberland in March 1975
The board game Othello is childs play to four year old Elizabeth Perella in April 1977
Some of the cast of Newcastles 35th Gang Show outside the Theatre Royal in 1978. The line up from the left, Annette Egan, Brenda Tomkins, Alan Tomkins, Lynn Tomkins and Margaret Falcus
Terry Richardson of the Stags Head in Butterknowle playing pub ten pin bowling in May 1996
Spring scrabble... Peter Finley (left), from SunderlandSpring scrabble.... Peter Finley (left), from Sunderland, the secretary of the Association of Premier Scrabble Players gets in some early practice with fellow committee member Graham Thomas at Durham
Handing over of new Colours to the Northumberland and Durham Division of the Girls Brigade at the Heaton United Reformed Church, Newcastle in May 1973
Mrs. Watson from Gosforth has been passing on many tips on how to cook without utensils to more than 300 Guides from England, Northern Ireland, Norway, Finland, Sweden
Young ice skaters on Quinton Pool, Cheylesmore, Coventry. 28th December 1964
The Northumberland Junior Chess Championships at George Stephenson School
Children playing in a chess compeition in 1996
An old gentleman studying a chess board
Children playing in a chess competition
11 year old Simon Florence concentrates hard in his chess match
Two men playing chess
