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.
9. The gift of giving
Sunderland nightclub Close Encounters charged people an admission fee of a toy in the run-up to Christmas 1981. Sorting through the donations were, left to right: David Gray, the club's managing director, comedian Bobby Knoxall, and Jackie Dagg. | se
10. Time to share
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