MPX5121810: The London Jive Club in Baker Street is probably the only club which has a dancing school held on weekday evenings to teach not only ballroom dancing, but Jive, Jitterbug, skiffle and any other new dance that comes along. Every Saturday and Sunday the pupils have their own dance with a resident Jazz band and Jive records brought along by pupils and played on a radio-gram. Open-necked shirt, double breasted waistcoat, a shawl collar is the "uniform" of this Clerk Alan Townsend, November 1956 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128254: Fire at Maryhill Road Glasgow. Fire breaks out in an unoccupied furniture shop spreading along the row of shops and trapping some families in their homes above. Fifty families were made homeless and one woman and one Fire Officer lost their lives. Saturday, 18th November 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128266: A young Cliff Richard receiving a cheque for £61 that has been presented for the physically handicapped to the pop star by three members of the Monkseaton Ranger Guides, left to right, Noreen Cummings, Ann Jackson and Judith Jackson on Wednesday, November 11, 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128268: Fire at Maryhill Road Glasgow. Fire breaks out in an unoccupied furniture shop spreading along the row of shops and trapping some families in their homes above. Fifty families were made homeless and one woman and one Fire Officer lost their lives. Saturday, 18th November 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128270: Fire at Maryhill Road Glasgow. Fire breaks out in an unoccupied furniture shop spreading along the row of shops and trapping some families in their homes above. Fifty families were made homeless and one woman and one Fire Officer lost their lives. Saturday, 18th November 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128275: Ely Hospital - Ely Hospital, Cardiff held an 'open day' yesterday (Wed) and members of the public were invited to tour the hospital. One of the old wards at the hospital. *FROM the time it opened as a Poor Law institution for orphaned children in 1862, Ely Hospital was a destination for people who had no families to care for them. In some cases, this was because members of their close family had died but in others the reason was altogether darker. In the late 1940s a 15-year-old girl was admitted to the hospital because she was pregnant and unmarried. After having her baby there, which went on to be adopted, the girl stayed on. When the hospital closed more than half a century later in 1997, the girl now a pensioner was one of the first patients to be resettled in the surrounding community. One former staff member who remembered the woman, who has not been named in order to protect her identity, said: She didn't have a learning disability when she went in, but she left the hospital diagnosed with having one. 30th June 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128278: Fire at Maryhill Road Glasgow. Fire breaks out in an unoccupied furniture shop spreading along the row of shops and trapping some families in their homes above. Fifty families were made homeless and one woman and one Fire Officer lost their lives. Saturday, 18th November 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128290: After becoming a cult science fiction comedy series on BBC Radio, "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams is now a top selling book, a record, and TV and film projects are underway. Here author Douglas Adams poses with model Sheree Boyland as book hero Trillian, holding the record, 29th November 1978 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128299: The Tyne Tunnel, runs under the River Tyne from Howdon in North Tyneside to Jarrow in South Tyneside - Mr Alfred Barnes, Minister of Transport, uses a pneumatic spade to begin excavations during the inauguration ceremony of the pedestrian tunnel, 4 June 1947 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128300: After becoming a cult science fiction comedy series on BBC Radio, "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams is now a top selling book, a record, and TV and film projects are underway. Here author Douglas Adams poses with model Sheree Boyland as book hero Trillian, holding a copy of the book, 29th November 1978 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128312: The Tyne Tunnel, runs under the River Tyne from Howdon in North Tyneside to Jarrow in South Tyneside - Mr Alfred Barnes, Minister of Transport, uses a pneumatic spade to begin excavations during the inauguration ceremony of the pedestrian tunnel 4 June 1947 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128315: Rehearsals of the Charity Show " A Night of 100 Stars" at the London Palladium. The boys wearing old time swim suits with actress Millicent Martin. They are back row left to right: Charles Hawtrey, Lionel Bart, Gary Raymond, Keith Baxter. Front row: Gary Miller, Millicent Martin and Ian McShane. 6th July 1964 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128467: What better birthday present than a cuddle from pop star David Essex. That was the surprise treat arranged for a Coventry fan by her friends and workmates yesterday. They worked frantically all day to arrange for Denise Cave to meet her idol back-stage at the Apollo Theatre, Coventry, before the pop star's show. She had been given a front seat ticket for the show as a present for her 23rd birthday but then could not go because it clashed with another important event arranged without her knowledge. So her friends Maureen Dix and Alison Bayliss decided to do something about it and the special meeting was fixed up by "Coventry Evening Telegraph" entertainments editor Peter McGarry. After meeting David, she went on to the Plough pub in London road, Coventry where she was again the centre of attention. Denise was a leading light in raising £1,600 for the city's Enterprise Club for the disabled and last night took part in a special presentation to the club of which she is a member. And her verdict on yesterday's meeting: "It's the best birthday present I've ever had," she said. "But he's really skinny." 15th September 1981 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images