MPX5157992: A man looks into the window of a tiny house built into the rocks overlooking the sandy cove of Porthcurno, Cornwall. The lower room features a fireplace with a stone seat. A staircase leads to the room above. The house was built as a summer retreat for the nieces of Miss Cade, founder of the Minack Theatre over thirty years ago. A programme from the theatre is posted onto the front door. 20th October 1966 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5158017: Customs: Clipping the yews: Every September the children of the Gloucestershire village of Painswick embrace their church by linking hands and forming a ring round it. Then they dance backwards and forwards so that the ring expands and contracts with their movements. At the same time they chant an age-old hymn. A short sermon preached from a little door in the tower follows, and afterwards each child is given a bun. September 1964 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5157750: A Polaris A-3 missile ignites its main rocket motor after being launched from the USS Tecumseh at the Atlantic Missile Range. The A3 version of the missile carried up to three nuclear warheads. The Polaris was the first SLBM (Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile) deployed by the U.S. Navy. Their inherent immunity to pre-emptive strikes made the SLBMs one of the most important assets of the U.S. nuclear armed forces, c. August 1964 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5157791: Mr and Mrs Malcolm Wright of South Woodford, London, victims in the Darlwyne pleasure cruiser which went missing along the Cornish coast with 31 people on board. The 45 foot long boat sailed from Mylor near Falmouth and was last seen of Fowey heading home. August 1966 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5157838: One of the most momentous conferences of the war began in January 1943 near Casablanca, Morocco when American President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met to survey the entire field of the war, theatre by theatre, accompanied by the chiefs of staff of the two countries. Picture shows left to right at Churchill's Anfa Villa (Seated): Sir Charles Portal, Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, Winston Churchill wearing the uniform of the Royal Air Force, Field Marshal Sir John Dill and General Sir Alan Brooke. Back Row from 3rd left: General Sir Harold Alexander, Lord Louis Mountbatten (5th from left), Major General Sir Hastings Ismay, Lord Leathers, and Harold MacMillan (3rd from right). January 1943 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images