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.
2. Champions from Castle View
Castle View School won the area finals of a crime prevention competition arranged by Northumbria Police.
3. 10-4 from Barnwell Primary
Children from Barnwell Primary School, Penshaw with their CB radio rig.
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.