It was August 1972 and the annual Tyneside Summer Exhibition was up and running at Newcastle's Exhibition Park.
Our photograph from 50 years ago shows Evening Chronicle employees, Brenda Marshall and Sandy Murray, who were running the Chronicle display at the event, and two Coldstream Guards, Ronald Fields and Michael Franks, who were on a recruiting drive for the famous army regiment.
For Geordies of a certain age, the yearly exhibition with its funfair, music, trade shows, farming displays, sheep shearing, Red Arrows displays and much more., will evoke fond memories. It was especially popular in the '70s, attracting 180,000 people over five days in 1973, while three years later a record 186,000 visitors flocked there.
