MPX5092864: The 12th Annual Camping and Outdoor Life and Travel Exhibition at Empire Hall in Olympia, London, Girls from the Commonwealth Caribean Centre Association dressed in their national garments. The girls are (left to right) Cindy, Madge, Izza, Monica, Pauline Peart, Esther Lucas and Velmar. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5092865: One young man looking ahead to 1970 is seven yrs old Gary Dutton, - for after his 8th birthday in April he will at last be able to compete in motor cycle grass track racing. He has had to confine his craze for the sport to training on farm-land near his Heath road, Chester, home, on his specially built 50 cc machine. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5092876: While most people today are trying to forget Christmas, workers at Napier Novelty Company Ltd in Rickmansworth, returned today and started to produce crackers for Christmas 1970 The firm produce about 4,000 dozen boxes per week and including paper hats. 49 year-old Mr. Leslie Seward from Hillingdon, surrounded by boxes of crackers, as he rolls samples for the trade. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5091732: A Hippie street singer, and Mary pushing a pram, were part of a school's Christmas pageant put on by the children of St. James' Norland School, Penzanza Place, Notting Hill. Mary (with babe and pram) is dressed by handmaidens, watched by Joseph and Hippie December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5091826: Part of the Coldstream Guards Band went to the children's ward at St. Thomas's London, and played their band music to the kiddies. The soldiers played Christmas Carols and happy marches. Some of the children even played some of the musical instruments. The nurses, children and soldiers joined in musical chairs. Then they all had tea, and the Tots Tattoo drew to a close. Banging the Kettle Drum is Sedat Akdemir aged 11 from Ankara in Turkey. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5091844: Part of the Coldstream Guards Band went to the children's ward at St. Thomas's London, and played their band music to the kiddies. The soldiers played Christmas Carols and happy marches. Some of the children even played some of the musical instruments. The nurses, children and soldiers joined in musical chairs. Then they all had tea, and the Tots Tattoo drew to a close. General view of the guardsmen, patients, parents and nursing staff. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5091874: Sheba The Alsation who raised the alarm of fire at the Crofton Hotel, Queen's gate, London and was the means of saving several lives went to the R.S.P.C.A. headquarters in Jermyn Streets, London today (Tuesday) with her mistress Miss Kim Vandyke who works at the hotel. There this lovely wooly coated alsation received the RSPCA plaque awarded for sagacity. Five yrs old "Sheba" smelt smoke and barked to wake her owner which is the assistant accountant at the hotel. January 1970 / Bridgeman Images