MPX5157882: Mr Bill Weeks, complete with top hat, gets ready with a red flag to start the steam traction engine race at Birtley, between Councillor D Smith, chairman of the Northern Region Economic Planning Council, and Alderman Andrew Cunningham, of Durham County Council, which Alderman Cunning ham won on 3rd July 1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5157912: 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, gets busy with the job on arriving for the traction engine rally at Lambton Park, Chester-le-Street on 12th July 1957 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5157935: A picture from a series of humurous novelty images taken by Sunday People photographer Dennis Hutchinson - He plays the Loo-phonium! Miner Mose Baily is a keen euphonium players, but his wife Jean can't stand the sound of his music. So Mose blasts away on the outside loo at the bottom of the yard of their County Durham home, c. 1980 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images