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MPX5098381: Lib - Mr. Jim Hooker, treasurer of the Tyne Cruising Club, out on the pack ice inspecting one of the club boats, at Bell's Close, Newburn in 1970 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098387: Schools: Luxury caravan used by sixth farm at Hertford Girl's High School Hertfordshire, December 1967 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098397: He may owe the taxman £44,000 but it's Churchill type cigars for American singer P.J. Proby pictured at the BBC studios in Manchester prior to going on the Simon Dee show. The kingsize cigars arrived as a gift from a fan at the studios, August 1967 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098400: 21 year old "Winkle" Colline Pellett of Forest Hill finished his 6 year apprenticeship as a compsitor today. His workmates at Wilkinson Bros., a printing firm in Laystall Street, off the Clerkenwell Road, gave him a "passing out ceremony". At 12 o'clock lunchtime, Winkle was taken in to the street with everybody in the works banging hammers on benches. He was then tied to a trolley in the gutter outside the firm's front door, with everybody in the firm watching from a windows and the steps. Fire buckets were splashed over him then flour, eggs and paper streaners. Winkle was than pushed at runnings speed through the streets and Leather Lane market, to the front of Gamages store in Holborn where he was left, still tied to the trolley. After a few minute struggling, with the crowds watching, two policemen arrived and asked for an explanation. Winkle said he had just "passed out" and told them the story. The police then freed him and he had to push the firm's trolley back to the works still covered in the flour, water and eggs, July 1967 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098403: Fishermen mend their nets in the calm of the North Shields Fish Quay while a storm rages out to sea in 1960 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098407: 21 year old "Winkle" Colline Pellett of Forest Hill finished his 6 year apprenticeship as a compositor today. His workmates at Wilkinson Bros., a printing firm in Laystall Street, off the Clerkenwell Road, gave him a "passing out ceremony". At 12 o'clock lunchtime, Winkle was taken in to the street with everybody in the works banging hammers on benches. He was then tied to a trolley in the gutter outside the firm's front door, with everybody in the firm watching from a windows and the steps. Fire buckets were splashed over him then flour, eggs and paper streaners. Winkle was than pushed at runnings speed through the streets and Leather Lane market, to the front of Gamages store in Holborn where he was left, still tied to the trolley. After a few minute struggling, with the crowds watching, two policemen arrived and asked for an explanation. Winkle said he had just "passed out" and told them the story. The police then freed him and he had to push the firm's trolley back to the works still covered in the flour, water and eggs, July 1967 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098411: The sound of music is dying on the streets of Britain. Our buskers are going down the drain! They are following the brains of Britain . . . and heading for rich pastures abroad. Their new tune is: Nobody Loves Us any more. "The busking lark is finished here," said David Bonaccorsi, who beats out rock with Fred Levers in Marble Arch subway in London, June 1978 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098433: Strollers on the Promenade Des Anglais get a shock of their lives while walking past an innocent looking French toy bull-dog to hear suddenly a very deep menacing growl and see the thing advancing towards them. The procedure of course, is that the owner of this toy pushed it forward with the foot and pulls the leash which activates the mouth that opens and gives this menacing sound. They are made by a firm in Mentone and sell the larger size for 5,000 francs about £5,000 francs about £5 and the smaller size at 3,500 francs, September 1952 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098455: Sport Motorcycling: Isle of Man TT Racing 750 CC Sidecar Class. Siegfried Schauzu celebrates victory, June 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098473: Miss World will wear a crown of steel with matching cape. Mecca Promotions had the idea of asking the British Steel Corporation to make a crown, cape and orb in stainless steel for this year's Miss World Contest, taking place at the Royal Albert Hall on December 1st. The designer was Ann Marie Shillito, 25, chosen by BSC, and who won a major prize for young designers two years ago, November 1972 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098474: Sport Motorcycling: Isle of Man TT Racing 750 CC Sidecar Class. Action from the race, June 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098483: Drinks: Cocktails Joe Gilmore top barman at the Savoy hotel in London seen here preparing Cocktails, 1970 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098485: School Dinners. General scenes of school dinner. Ladies serving meal to pupils in the school dining room, 1960 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098909: SS Picardy, moored next to Tower Bridge with a police boat in the Pool of London. 6th June 1929 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098910: "Keeping Fit" with the Minister of Sport. The Minister of Sport, Mr Denis Howell, M.P. today visited the City Gymnasium to undertake a course of exercises directed by Al Murray, the proprietor of the Gym, February 1975 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098912: "Keeping Fit" with the Minister of Sport. The Minister of Sport, Mr Denis Howell, M.P. today visited the City Gymnasium to undertake a course of exercises directed by Al Murray, the proprietor of the Gym, February 1975 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098913: Pleasure steamer 'The Royal Eagle', back in use on the Thames after being used for the Dunkirk evacuations. c.1948 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098918: "Keeping Fit" with the Minister of Sport. The Minister of Sport, Mr Denis Howell, M.P. today visited the City Gymnasium to undertake a course of exercises directed by Al Murray, the proprietor of the Gym, February 1975 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098935: Olivia Newton-John December 1970 Singer Music Pictured after appearing with Cliff Richard on a Christmas TV Show 4th December 1970 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098938: Timothy Knatchbull grandson of Lord Louis Mountbatten. Seen here carrying a bouquet as he arrived at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London to visit his mother, Lady Brabourne. She was taken there for treatment after being flown by helicopter from Ireland following the bomb attack which killed Lord Mountbatten. Timothy twin brother also died in the IRA bomb attack on the Mountbatten boat, September 1979 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098949: Visitors on the terrace of the River Room Restaurant at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre by the river Avon at Stratford-upon-Avon. 19th September 1973 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098955: Visitors relaxing by the river Avon at Stratford-upon-Avon. 16th April 1974 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098958: Terry De Havilland, shoe designer, in his shop on The King's Road, 2nd August 1974 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098967: Abba in rehearsals for 'Top of the Pops' at White City Studios, London, 3rd May 1974 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098983: The Herzogin Cecilie on the rocks at Bolt Head, Salcombe, Devon. 27th April 1936 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098987: Busmen's Protest Strike. Deserted Victoria Bus Station this morning , with the public walking to work, January 1975 / Bridgeman Images
