Wylam nostalgia gallery
Wylam is the latest village to get a look into its past through The Journal's photographic archives.
The Tyne Valley village is well-known as the home of the railways, being the birthplace of George Stephenson and fellow rail pioneer Timothy Hackworth.
Our pictures show a scene from the village in 1956, with a young family picnicking in front of St Oswin's Church.
There is also a then-new diesel train arriving at the picturesque station on the south of the River Tyne in 1965, and a packed scene in the middle of the village in 1923 when the Wylam war memorial is unveiled.
But pride of place goes to a shot taken by chance in Wylam 's Black Bull Inn in which 81-year-old villager John Newton shows off his outsize pipe while William Thompson - Mr Newton's best man 56 years earlier - looks on in amazement.
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