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A RAF Sea King helicopter lowers Father Christmas to the ground. Santa Claus, played by Sgt Alan Walters, 37, of RAF Boulmer, was greeted by children outside the Radcliffe Workingsmens Club, Amble

Mr. Prem Vohra, an inter-city rail guard, "whistles out"
Mr. Prem Vohra, an inter-city rail guard, " whistles out" a new train as it starts its journey on 4th May 1970

Passengers on the first Dan-Air flight from Newcastle Airport caught a glimpse of the services new-look air hostesses. The ladies switched their red uniforms for French Navy on Easter Sunday

Are you sitting comfortably? Then we ll begin. Inter-City 125 drivers Colin Forster (left) and David Sursham in the cab on 21st May 1986

Gill Stokoe, 30, senior stewardess onboard a British Airways Trident airliner at Newcastle Airport on the 25th anniversary of the regular route between Newcastle and London. 15/05/1978

Mr. Harry Gray of Benton, stands beside a 2, 500 h. p. Brush Sulzer engine at Gateshead
Mr. Harry Gray of Benton, stands beside a 2, 500 h.p. Brush Sulzer engine at Gateshead on 27th February 1971

Evening Chronicle reporter Rex Garratt (being rescued) joined a RAF search and rescue Sea King helicopter from RAF Boulmer on a practise rescue mission. 10/10/1987

With a big money prize for the first man-powered flight still unclaimed at the time, Mr Charles Henry Lutman invented and built this attempt at an aircraft in his backyard

Mr. William Hodgson, porter at Stocksfield station, fixes the portable steps to a Carlisle train for a passenger to walk down on 18th January 1969

A newly operational RAF search and rescue Sea King helicopter from 202 Squadron A Flight based at RAF Boulmer takes part in exercise at Dunstanburgh Castle

Mr. W. Duddy in the old style British Rail hat talks to Lad Porter T. Turnbull sporting the new line for ticket collectors on 24th November 1966

A bad landing for Mr Arthur George, of Newcastle, in one of the early flights in his homemade biplane. Arthur E George mistook the nature of the ground on which he was landing the plane in 1910

A Royal Navy Sea King helicopter visits Marden High School in Whitley Bay. Helen Lockey, 15, tries out the winch on the helicopter aided by chief aircrewman Paul Pops Coombes. 19/11/1997

A Hiller 12E helicopter carries a telegraph pole across Grouse Moor at Kings Law, Northumberland. 10/02/1971

Four stewards are put through their paces on 22nd October 1971. Left to right, Tony Atkinson of Monkseaton, Arthur Coulthard, George Pattison of Felling and Alex Owens of Jarrow

The Northumbria Police Air Support Unit MBB Bolkow BO105 helicopter flies over a RNLI lifeboat in the North Sea during an exercise. Circa 1990

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

The international airline Dan-Air which operates from Newcastle Airport, paid a compliment to the city by asking Lord Mayor of Newcastle, Councillor Hugh White

The Army and the RAF gave a helping hand to American Air Filter Ltd. Cramlington, to get equipment high on the roof of Drax Power Station, near Selby, Yorkshire

Delayed passengers at Gatwick Airport pass the time in a specially erected 8, 000 sq ft tent whilst waiting for their flights. The delays were caused by a go-slow by French airport workers

The new style hat for a Biritsh Rail ticket collector as seen on Mr. Fred McIver on 24th November 1966

British Caledonian Airways sales staff, Pat Neill (left) and Gilly Penny. Pat, 23, and Gilly, 24, were part of a six strong sales force meeting travel agents and top industry

Servisair check in desk staff show off their new uniforms. Servisair were the handling agents for British Caledonian Airways who operated from Newcastle Airport to Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Glasgow

The Eurocopter AS350 Squirrel helicopter used by Northumbria Air Ambulance ( Great North Air Ambulance ) and sponsored by Barbour. 18/07/1994

Former British Airways cabin crew, (left to right) air hostesses, Deidre Foster, Alexia Wheeler, Lynda Rutherford and Barbara Tweddle. 10/03/1999

A Westland Wessex helicopter, operated by Bristow, tackles the job of airlifting the tip of a 352 ft flarestack at ICIs North Tees works, near Billingham. 23/09/1972

Proud of their station, thats how the staff at Durham feel on August 13, 1979. They have just won a certificate of merit from British Rail for customer care

Pilot Tony Daly at the controls of his Hiller 12E helicopter spreading fertiliser at The Brocks farm, Longhirst, Northumberland. 16/03/1981

The British Rail crossing keeper of Seaton Bank Top crossing, Seaham (name not known) on 28th April 1977

Britannia Airways captain Dave Lott and stewardess Joan Young at Newcastle Airport. 08/09/1991

A RAF search and rescue Sea King helicopter from RAF Boulmer. August 1984

A Royal Navy Westland Dragonfly helicopter uses the newly developed scoop net for picking up people from the sea. Second Officer Ridley, of Birkenhead

Former British Airways cabin crew, air hostess Alexia Wheeler. 10 / 03 / 1999
Former British Airways cabin crew, air hostess Alexia Wheeler. 10/03/1999

Rail workers extending the track for the Stephenson Railway at Percy Main on 15th August 1989

A RAF search and rescue Sea King from RAF Boulmer lands a man on the beach after he was plucked out of the sea off Cullercoats

Evening Chronicle reporter Rex Garratt joined a RAF search and rescue Sea King helicopter from RAF Boulmer on a practise rescue mission

British Rail guard Tom Starkie of Stonegarth, at work on the Carlisle to Settle railway on 18th February 1984

A RAF search and rescue Sea King helicopter from RAF Boulmer, which made a mercy dash to get emergency patients to hospital, had to stop twice because of blizzards

A RAF Westland Puma helicopter, flown by Flt-Lieut. George Blackie, lowers a home dialysis unit into the garden of 18 year old kidney patient Howard Gustard at Marcia Avenue, Shotton Colliery

A real high speed team - drivers David Sursham (centre) and colin forster with guard Bill Smith at Newcastle Central Station on 21st May 1986

A Westland Wessex helicopter, operated by Management Aviation, airllifts concrete from Seahouses to Longstone Island. 14/03/1980

A RAF search and rescue Westland Whirlwind helicopter, from RAF Boulmer, searches the coast near the mouth of the River Wansbeck for a missing man

Driver Les Jorda, of Derby, in the driving cab of the first of the most powerful main line diesel locomotives to be built in British Railways workshops, numbered D.1

Britannia Airways stewardesses, Lisa Brownlee and Cathryn McGuckin, at Newcastle Airport. 08/09/1991

Airline stewardesses use model aircraft to show off the new red, white and blue livery of British Airways, it still featured the Speedbird of BOAC

A four month old baby was flown 800 miles, by a RAF Westland Puma helicopter, to Newcastle in mercy dash from an RAF camp in Germany. A medical team was at the baby boys side as he flew to Newcastle

Daily Mirror Newsroom at Holborn, 1960

Daily Mirror Picture Desk, Holborn, London, March 1957

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