We step back to the early years of the last century into Church Street, Winlaton.
The village was once a bustling centre for steel-making.
Furnaces and forges were set up here by Ambrose Crowley in the late 17th century.
The Crowley works were once regarded as the largest manufacturer of their kind in Europe.
The plant not only produced high-quality nails, but also iron goods such as pots, hinges, wheel-hubs, hatchets and edged tools.
Sitting a mile or so south west of Blaydon, Winlaton is now part of Gateshead, having been an independent village in County Durham up until 1974.
In our early-1900s image, the street is full of children playing, or perhaps on their way to or from school.
With the Great War, just a decade away in the future, one wonders whatever became of them.