MPX5135099: Sunday Pictorial 27th April 1947, Front Page. Report on 1947 FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium where Charlton Athletic beat Burnley by one goal to nil. Picture shows the Duke of Gloucester shaking hands with the Charlton team before kick off. Headline reads: Cup Fever. Wembley's 100,000 are telling Britain all about it today. Main picture shows swimwear models Pat Purser and Sheila Rathbone displaying latest fashions in a magnolia garden. 27th April 1947 (photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5135577: BPM MEDIA: Pictured is a file image of abigail Carter - daughter of John Nicholls. AN ex-Blues footballer was killed on rail tracks after escaping from the care home where hed been placed only days before. John Nicholls, who turned outfor Birmingham City reserves in the 1940s and 50s, was hit by a train at Marston Green Railway Station after walking out of Heartlands Care Home. Yesterday (MON), an inquest into the tragedy heard the 76-year-old had attempted to leave the Yardley care home several times during his five-day stay. For more of this copy please see copy BPMFOOTBALLERINQUEST or call 01212345558/07729153536 (photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5135589: Twenty four year old warden Mrs Mary Couchman crouches down to protect her young son Brian and his two friends during an air in a Kent village during the Second World War. She was smoking a cigarette on a break between warnings in the warden's post when she saw her four year old son playing some distance away with two friends. When the sirens sounded again she ran out of the post and towards the children with bombs falling around her, instinctively protecting them from flying shrapnel and debris by huddling over them. October 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5135653: Standing out from the regular buses seen in a city centre, this collection took passers-by back in time. And the vintage buses certainly attracted crowds while parked in Newcastle city centre this week as members of the Aycliffe and District Bus Preservation Society brought their vehicles out for show. From converted double deckers to models dating back to the 1940s, this group preserves part of the transport history of North East. Pictured Peter Mitchell, with the 1949 Bristol single decker, from Aycliffe and District Bus Preservation Society, in the centre of Newcastle, 31/10/2013 (photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5135668: It was the year Britain joined Europe, Sunderland won the FA Cup and Princess Anne married Captain Mark Philips. But in Stockton, 1973 was the year post-16 education was transformed with the opening of Stockton Sixth Form College. And 40 years on, staff and students, past and present, let their hair down with a celebration party, complete with staff in fancy dress and a groovy 1970s disco. Pictured L-R Lydia Waddleton, Kallie Friston, Jasmin Brown, Walid Nane, and Henry Shears, 24/10/2013 (photo) / Bridgeman Images