Not quite Bridget Jones, but take a look inside this diary, there's even a horse at the cinema

At the end of the year, The Northern Echo presented the couple with three albums of photographs chronicling their year, which Doreen still treasures.

Here is another selection from the albums - if you know anything about any of the people on the pictures, we'd love to hear from you.

Princess Anne arrives on May 27, 1970, to open Darlington Town Hall. She is flanked by the mayor and mayoress as she walks along the red carpet at Feethams to greet the bewigged town clerk, CNS Nicholson

Outside the Odeon cinema – now called by its original Majestic name – in Bondgate on September 11, 1970. Two mounted troopers in ceremonial uniform were preparing for a concert for schoolchildren by the Life Guards

Mayoress Doreen Jackson attended the Social Studies Festival held by the Darlington and District Federation of Townswomen’s Guilds. Third from the left is Lady Starmer, the widow of The Northern Echo’s managing director Sir Charles Starmer. Lady Starmer was a formidable character. From left, Mrs E Jackson, Miss M Boston, Mrs EE Sherwood, Mrs E Graham, the mayoress, Mrs D Waterfall, Mrs M Sobey, Mrs PW Kingdon, Lady Starmer, Mrs E Dixon and Mrs S Merre

Mayoress Doreen Jackson selling poppies on High Row beneath the Town Clock to David and Michael Wiggins

The mayor and mayoress enjoy some tarts, from the Queen of Hearts, at Rise Carr School fete, on June 20, 1970

The mayor and the mayoress present the prize-winners at the Hummersknott Lowe School’s speech day on October 23, 1970

As part of the European Conservation Year, the 17th Cub Scouts based at St Andrew’s Church in Haughton, presented 17 rose bushes to Haughton Hall, and the mayor helped the scouts plant them. Here, Doreen meets the pack’s three-yearold mascot, Nicholas Pearson

The mayor at the 1970 General Election count at the old Town Hall. Centre of the picture is the winner, Labour’s Ted Fletcher and his wife. Mr Fletcher held the Darlington seat from 1964 until his death in 1983. In the light jacket is defeated Conservative, Anthony Bourne-Arton, who had been MP from 1959 until 1964. The Liberal candidate, Stuart Newton, with a cheroot between his fingers, is also present

Mayor Cllr Eric Jackson, with the famously eccentric scientist Magnus Pyke (second left) and, left, Sir Derman Christopherson, Vice-Chancellor of Durham University, and, right, EE Cleaver, Deputy Director of Mining for National Coal Board. Dr Pyke was in Durham to give a lecture to the British Association for the Advancement of Science