MPX5124274: Judy Garland performing for one of the last times at the "Talk of the Town" in London. A poor performance saw Judy struggling through her signature song, "Over the Rainbow," and the audience pelted her with bread sticks and cigarette butts. Six months later she was dead from an accidental overdose, 16th January 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5124284: Actress Wendy Craig paid a visit to Warwick to open the Emscote Lawn School Elizabethan Fair. Miss Craig said: "The education of our children is one of the most vital matters in the world today. We must preserve a choice of school in order to cater for every kind of child. We don't want to produce children like cars from an assembly line, lacking individual flair." Miss Craig, star of the TV series, "Not in Front of the Children," arrived from her mother's home in Kenilworth by an "Elizabethan horse-drawn coach" re-constructed by boys at the school. A ducking stool, quintain(jousting), stocks, madrigals, a pig roast, archery, falconry and the school staff and pupils in full Elizabethan costume provided the period flavour, 27th June 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5124296: Pop singer Alice Cooper aged 23 flew into Heathrow Airport today with his pet boa constrictor, wearing a flimsy see-through shirt with no buttons. He calls his python Rachina and allowed it to slide over his face and neck. Alice Cooper flew in from the United States and will be appearing in Britain. He is staying in London, 21st October 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5124302: Pop singer Alice Cooper aged 23 flew into Heathrow Airport today with his pet boa constrictor, wearing a flimsy see-through shirt with no buttons. He calls his python Rachina and allowed it to slide over his face and neck. Alice Cooper flew in from the United States and will be appearing in Britain. He is staying in London, 21st October 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5124339: Village shipyard builds coracles for salmon fishing. They are going all out in the village of Cenarth, Carmarthenshire to net more salmon to help wartime food supplys, Many coracle fishermen have been called to active service and the few remaining work hard, often doing 19 hours a day on the Tivy River when the conditions are favourable for fishing. Seen here returning from a days fishing is Fred Llewellyn aged 73 and has been coracle fishing for the past 58 years, June 1943 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5124377: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on the North East Leg of The Jubilee Tour 1977 to celebrate the Silver Jubilee. The Prince chats with a billiard player at Concordia Leisure centre in Cramlington with the Queen looking puzzled in the background, 15th July 1977 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5124418: General scene in Regents Street on the 10th day of the General Strike. Volunteers can be seen acting as bus conductors. The national dispute came about after negotiations between the miners and mine owners failed over wages and a lock out, the strike began on 3 May 1926. Millions obeyed the strike call, bringing transport systems to a halt while newspapers were not printed. The government responding by using volunteers to run trains and buses and sent in troops to move supplies from the London docks. There were clashes between police and crowds in many areas and at least 4000 strikers were arrested. There were attacks on buses and trains, including the derailing of the Flying Scotsman. The strike was called off unilaterally by the TUC on 12 May with no guarantees of fair treatment for the miners who fought on to bitter defeat in October. 12th May 1926 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5124427: Special constable seen here with his patrol car in the City of London on the 9th day of the General Strike. The barbed wire across the windscreen is to protect the driver from attacks from strikers. The national dispute came about after negotiations between the miners and mine owners failed over wages and a lock out, the strike began on 3 May 1926. Millions obeyed the strike call, bringing transport systems to a halt while newspapers were not printed. The government responding by using volunteers to run trains and buses and sent in troops to move supplies from the London docks. There were clashes between police and crowds in many areas and at least 4000 strikers were arrested. There were attacks on buses and trains, including the derailing of the Flying Scotsman. The strike was called off unilaterally by the TUC on 12 May with no guarantees of fair treatment for the miners who fought on to bitter defeat in October. 11th May 1926 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images