MPX5135512: English League Division One match at the Valley. Charlton Athletic 4 v Stoke City 1. A tense moment for Charlton when the ball goes in to touch following a duel involving giant new goalkeeper Albert Uytenbogardt, right back Campbell and Stoke's inside left Pippitt. 18th December 1948 (photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5135520: English League Division One match at Highbury. Arsenal 2 v Charlton Athletic 3. Charlie Vaughan, who scored a record 91 goals for Charlton in football's top flight, causing palpitations in the Arsenal defence when the Addicks won at Highbury for the first time. Billy Kiernan and Gordon Hurst are the men waiting to pounce â both scored and Vaughan added the decisive goal in a 3-2 win. 19th November 1949 (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