See if you can guess what links a Southwick telephone exchange, a CB radio in Penshaw and a 46-year-old fridge.
The answer is the 1981 - because they all made the Sunderland Echo headlines that year.
Barnwell Primary students had their own CB radio rig and new telephone numbers were being tested at a Southwick exchange.
And Margery Maughan's 46-year-old fridge got plenty of publicity that year.
Have a look at all this and more.
1. Hi-tech in 1981
Technical officer Terry Woodhouse, tests one of the 380 junctions in the Sunderland North telephone exchange at Southwick in 1981. | se
2. Champions from Castle View
Castle View School won the area finals of a crime prevention competition arranged by Northumbria Police. | se
3. 10-4 from Barnwell Primary
Children from Barnwell Primary School, Penshaw with their CB radio rig. | se
4. That's cool, Margery
Margery Maughan said goodbye to her fridge of 46 years. Frigidaire were so impressed after she contacted them about her fridge that they presented her with a brand new one. The old model was used for testing and museum purposes. | se