MPX5160073: Highwire walker Rudi Omankowsky, crossed the 320 yards of the Cheddar Gorge blindfolded. 450 feet at the highest end, 380 feet at the lower end. The cable weighed 700 lbs and took 4 days to erect. Crossing took 30 minutes. Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, 29th July 1961 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5160153: Over 100 feet above the ground Charles Legg calmly goes about pruning and trimming a tree. But no ordinary tree! For Charles is an assistant at the unique roof garden on Derry and Toms in Kensington High Street. Strong cross winds can sometimes be a problem with a job like this, but the sheer drop seven floors down does not worry Charles at all. The gardens, 1 3/4acres in extent, are very popular with tourists and residents, as well as shoppers. Before he retired , a local vicar visited there every day for thirteen years to write his sermons. 12th September 1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5160157: The American play 'Hair' will be opening at the Shaftesbury Theatre soon - rehearsals are now underway there with a cast of 26 boy and girl 'hippies'. Photographed outside the theatre are three of the members of the cast Annabel Leventon (24), Oliver Tobias (20) and Paul Nicholas. 11th September 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images