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A long run from Tarland, Aberdeenshire, necessitates a thorough clean-up for this 1925 Tasker traction engine, so its owner Mr William McConachie, an Aberdeen farmer
A general view of the disused Lintz Green Railway Station on the Newcastle to Consett line on 6th August 1953
Mr. J. D. Cram Station Master at Riding Mill Railway Station is busy with the prize winning flowers on 2nd September 1955
Tyne and Wear Museums Martin Routledge polishes up a steam powere fire engine on 13th September 1993
More than 200 passengers had a narrow escape at Hexham Station on 1st July 1957, when a coal train crashed into an empty diesel train. they were in the 11 a.m
North East Festivals Musician Paul Evans launches the 21st Newcastle Jazz Festival 26 April 1995
The price they paid, a Viking warrior lies dying on the Anglo Saxon ground after a merciless battle re-enactment by the History Club on 26th August 1973, at South Shields
Two skeletons have been unearthed by archaeologists who have been working for several months on a dig outside The Keep, in Newcastle on 1st May 1979
A least two human skeletons have been unearthed by archaeologists carrying out excavation work at the Arbeia roman Fort as South Shields on 8th January 1990
A small child holding hands with a skeleton on 10th September 1985
Chuffed: Mr Benjamin Stafford with his Fowler road locomotive at Beamish Museum, Durham on 4th September 1989
No health and safety here as this painter stands precariously on top of the hand rails of the safety cradle on 14th September 1985
Michael Charlton from dudley, with his 1988 Burrell traction engine on 13th September 1993
Simon Schofield on the new snakeboard on 30th August 1994
Paul Robson from Sunderland skateboarding at the Oval in Washington on 5th September 1991
Skateboard crayz youngsters like young John Turner try ou the North Easts first Skateboard Bowl in Durham on 6th February 1978
Newcastle Area Skateboarders competition, held in the grounds of the West Denton High School. Malcolm Bishop of Heaton demonstrating his freestyle on 3rd December 1977
Mr Walter Hodson pictured with the steam roller Highland Lass on 2th June 1972. Mr Hodson looked after her when she was owned by McAlpine, the builders
Mr Doug Chapman of the Hastings Arms, Seaton Delaval in the stocks for charity on 31st March 1986
Standing in the stocks and getting facefuls of sand pies is Brian Lowes of Sedgefield Community Association, which staged a medieval fete to raise money to buy a community centre on 19th May 1973
Spotlighted against the wintry city skyline are members of a team of steeplejacks who are carrying out a survey of the spire and roof of St Marys Cathedral, in Clayton Street
Walking Tall! World champion stilt walker John Long set some heads turning when he went for a stroll through Newcastle City Centre on 2nd April 1982
Alberts Sayers with his barrow on the streets of Newcastle on 4th August 1982
The British Rail main North-South freight line was completely blocked today on 7th August 1974, at Leamside in Co. Durham after 14 wagons came off the tracks
The desolate High Shields Railway Station on 22nd October 1969
A general view of Boldon Colliery Railway Station on 30th June 1976
A general view of the now disused Carville Railway Station in Wallsend on 18th April 1973
Brian Beacher of Whitley Bay and Graham Lamb (right) of Gosforth on 21st September 1985. They are both going to work on the new British Rail Pullman
A real high speed team - drivers David Sursham (centre) and colin forster with guard Bill Smith at Newcastle Central Station on 21st May 1986
Signalman Ron Challenor in the British Rail signal box at Dudley which has gone over to closed circuit television on 11th September 1973
The railway signal box at Benton, Newcastle on 3rd March 1964
Brian Blessed and, right, Terence Edmund, who plays PC Sweet, toss up to see who pays for teas during a break in the filming of the television programme Z Cars on 16th December 1962
Rytons Town Crier Noel Rippeth had nothing to ring his bell about as the torrential rain forced the cancellation of the annual Ryton Village Hirings Fair 2 May 1983
Town Crier John Stevenson struggled through the snow at Northumberland Square in North Sheilds, to launch North Tyneside Councils campaign urging residents to claim all the Government benefits they
These Rag Week students are getting ready to play a game of Dwile Flonking in Newcastle on 6th November 1970
A diesel train at Kirkbride in Cumbria which was inspected by the Mayor of Carlisle, Coun. T. J. Lancaster who is also a British Railways guard on 25th November 1954
Heaton Traction Depot production manager Len Purdy pictured with the new British Rail Pacer train on 12th September 1985
The last train waits at Washington Station for the signal to pull out on 13th June 1963
The last few passengers board the last train as it leaves Washington Station on 13th June 1963
Mr. Ray Buckton, the ASLEF General Secretary tries the drivers seat in British Rails new High Speed train just before it left Kings Cross for Darlington on 2nd August, 1973
The new High Speed Train servicing depot was opened at Heaton on 7th November 1977 when one of the new locomotives broke through a giant tape driven by rail boss Peter Parker
Volunteer Rosemary Smith welcomes the Deltic diesel locomotive to the Stephenson Rail Museum, North Shields on 27th April 1994
Les Ferguson from the Stephenson Railway Museum, Silverlink, North Shields, with their lates aquisition Engine No.1313 a Swedish B Class 4-6-0 tender engine on 7th July 1995
Hazel is a railway coach built in 1932 by the Pullman Car Company, and was used on the Brighton Belle from 1933 which has recently been axed by British Rail
Archaeologists digging up a perfectly preserved wooden railway which had lain buried beneath colliery spoil at the site of the former Lambton Cokeworks in Sunderland on 16th October 1996
The Manchester Assize Courts were law courts on Great Ducie Street in the Strangeways district of Manchester, England. It was 279 ft (85 m)
George Byerley on 2th May 1986 with his Marshall twin cylinder portable steam engine which is driving a Ransomes heavy duty threshing machine which in turn is driving a Jones wire bailer
Henry Thompsons Foden Steam Wagon got up a full head of steam at Beamish on 4th September 1983
Philip Doran of Newton Aycliffe, with his miniature Burrell traction engine in action on 13th September 1993
A vintage traction engine getting steamed up on 22nd September 1998
Two history students unearthed the skeleton of a 14th Centrury man at the ruins of the Norman Abbey of Newminster, Morpeth on 16th August 1961
Action from South Shields skateboard park where American pros showed off their skills on 1st August 1994
Scott Greenwood on a Snakeboard on 30th August 1994
Retired policeman, Alec Gelley, of Castlerigg Drive, Carlisle on 20th February 1976 who has been playing the tenor horn in the Salvation Army Band for 35 years
Tom Weatherell with his vintage 10-ton steam roller Resolution on 26th March 1978
A taste of nostalgia as one of the engines that is appearing at the Corbridge Steam Rally trundles over the lovely old stone bridge across the Tyne at Corbridge on 12th June 1988
A little girl watching a fairground orgon at the Vintage Car and Steam Engine show at Corbridge on 12th June 1994
Auctioneers receptionist Janice Coulthard admires some of the model steam and traction engines on 26th July 1985, made by former pit electrician and lifelong modelmaker Ron Ibbertson
There was a ceremonial tear-up of L-plates on 3rd October 1967 when Mr John Arnott Brown passed his driving test on a 15-ton steam roller
A steam roller at County Technical College in Ashington on 10th March 1965
The traction engine Providence on 19th August 1965
Richard Doran steaming ahead on his miniature traction engine at Durhams Vintage Rally on 20th June 1988
Demolition man Jack Spence gust through a steel girdon on 7th June 1962
A workman on the 6th March 1989 using a pneumatic drill, which can cause the vibration white finger industrial disease
The traction engine The Iron Maiden at Sunderland on 19th August 1992
George Byerley on 7th May 1986 with his Marshall twin cylinder portable steam engine which is driving a Ransomes heavy duty threshing machine which in turn is driving a Jones wire bailer
Traction engine mad John Bainbridge who is hoping to restore this steam engine to its full glory on 22nd May 1995
Old Roly is dying, deserted and derelict and lies rusting away at the Church Walk play park in Morpeth on 24th July 1980. Now safety experts at Castle Morpeth Council say the old boy is in such bad
The tasty tattie, complete with a dollop of creamy butter, is back on the streets of Newcastle. 38-year-old Dizz Willis, other poet, singer and film star
Steeplejack David Stone at work on Lindisfarne Castle on 11th November 1988
A shiny new metal box was hanging from Mrs Margaret Ingledews fruit barrow in Newcastle on 2nd July 1956. It was the barrow boys answer to the Food Hygiene Regulatiions, 1955
A steeplejack repairing a chuch spire on 2nd May 1968
Carol Leroy on a photoshoot on the Newcastle City Walls for the Pantomime Snow White on 30th September, 1983
Train spotter Kevin McCarthy on the platform at Newcastle Central Station on 26th January 1995
Television Programme Gladiators Entertainment Programme Hundreds of fitness fans were put through their paces at Gateshead Leisure Centre in the hope of becoming a contestant on Gladiators 21
Television programme - Marjorie Sayer who runs the Post Office and shop in Esholt, the village near to the set of soap opera Emmerdale Farm 20 September 1983 - Marjorie
Trains in and out of Newcastle were cancelled on 11th February 1974 after three empty coal wagons jumped the track and dropped 20 ft. into the side of Manors car park
World War Two - Second World War - Families receive help and a hot drink in a neighbourhood devastated by the German V1 Flying Bombs. Circa : Sept. 1944
Farriers of the Royal Artillery pose fir the camera during a training exercise before embarking for France and the Western Front. Circa 1915
Television programme - Brookside - A filming of an episode 19 August 1983 - Sound man Garie Kan works in the cupboard under the stairs
North East Festivals Ann Edgar, Gatesehad Council Leisure Catering Manager, who has cooked up three trophies at the Ryton Music Festival 26 February 1997
North East Festivals Boom and its away... A 20-round salvo fired by the 204North East Festivals Boom and its away.... A 20-round salvo fired by the 204 (Tyneside Scottish) Medium Battery Royal Artillery Volunteers on the Town Moor
North East Festivals Byker Olympic flame bearer Bob Hanlin begins the run from Newcastle Civic Centre to Bykers Mount Olympus, where the torch will light the Byker Olympic bonfire
North East Festivals Musicians David Etherington and Paul Evans launch the 21st Newcastle Jazz Festival 26 April 1995
