MPX5079753: Entertainment Comedy: American comedian George Burns arrived at Heathrow Airport today to star in Thames Television's one-hour special "Max", starring Max Bygraves, who was at the airport to meet him. Also arriving at the airport with George Burns was glamorous Lisa Miller who will join him in a comedy routine on the show. Getting into a routine, (left to right) George Burns and Max Bygraves pictured at Heathrow today. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5079808: The scene in the living room at St. Christopher's Fellowship boys white and black sit round a fire chatting and talking. Above the mantelpiece is a treasured souvenir of one of the mountain climbing expeditions which the lads loved, a mountaineer's Kevin the Deputy Warden sits with them chatting and discussing with them just everything. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5079854: Wireless set used by enemy agents who were executed today. Two enemy agents, acting on behalf of Germany, were executed at Pentonville Prison today following their conviction under the Treachery Act 1940, at the Central Criminal Court on November. 22nd. 1940 their names are Jose Waldberg, a German born at Mainz in 1915 and Karl Meier, a Dutch subject of German origin, born at Koblenz in 1916. A Home Guard wearing the two cases which contained the complete transmitting set found in possession of the spies. December 1940 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5079902: Miss World 1969. (left to right - front row) The Misses, Argentine, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Finland, France and Gambia. (left to right - centre row) The Misses, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guyana, Holland, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Liberia, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, New Zealand, Nicaragua, and Nigeria. (left to right - back row) The Misses, Norway, Philippines, Seychelles, South Africa, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, U.S.A., Venezuela and Yugoslavia. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5079922: There was a photocall at the £1/4-million climatic chamber at the Institute of Aviation Medicine at the Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough this morning. The conditions created at the test centre are used to test the efficiency of flying clothing. At the moment they are testing underwear cooled by circulating water, cooled air being pumped through piping and cooled air being sucked through the same piping. Test personnel being subjected to 1200 Fahrenheit under a glaring sun (the lighting above their heads) as part of a test of the efficiency of various forms of flying suit cooling. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078236: The pick of the holidays: Men and women volunteer farm workers at the Herne, Kent, Ministy of agriculture camp all agree they've picked a grand holiday for themselves- and their picking is helping the country, too. This group is gathering gooseberries on a Kentish farm-twenty volunteers can pick 300 stone between 9 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. They get paid for their work, of course; and recreation provided for them includes coach trips, P.T. and the usual camp sports. July 1947 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078243: Fenlanders Carry On: One of the light-weight airborne tractors with bulldozer originally designed, but never used, for clearing emergency airfields on the landing for our glider troops in enemy Country. This tractor and others like it are the property of the County Agricultural Advisory Committees who loan them out, with labour, to enable farmers to work their land as soon as the flood waters subside. Unless the land is worked at once to "get the weather in" it hardens and is useless for this season's emergency crops. June 1947 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078253: Magic cupboard produces new grass. A cupboard capable of supporting 10 cattle a year, better than acres of grass, is being tested at a farm near Reading. The fresh Fodder grown in the cupboard in trays, in 10 days, equals the growth of 2 months on land. Once cupboard will feed 10 acres all the year round, and it is claimed that more milk is produced .The inventor is Dr. Spangenberg. September 1933 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5079232: Local riders take the horses from the Riding School at Westgate, Kent, out for a run on the sands and a bathe in the sea. The horses have had a very busy season carrying holidaymakers and are now beginning their own holidays which includes a swim in the sea, an activity they give every sign of thoroughly enjoying. September 1948 / Bridgeman Images