SOUTH TYNESIDE

Two tankers containing heavy fuel oil overturned at Hebburn, 1976 Singer and comedian Harry Secombe meets nurses at South Shields General Hospital, 1971

Above, a dry dock at Palmer’s Shipyard, Jarrow, 1971; left, Prince Charles at the Community Workshop in Barrington Street, South Shields, 1979

Singer Gerry Monroe sang for former colleagues at the Plessey factory, South Shields, 1970