MPX5127745: A gun crew of the 14th Light Regiment, Royal Artillery, stand at the ready as a Royal Air Force Westland Wessex helicopter prepares to land at Exhibition Park, Newcastle, during a display by the army. The gun crew dismantle the weapon, load it into the aircraft, fly to Whitley Bay, where they land and reassemble it, firing two blank rounds of ammunition, repeat the programme and fly back to Newcastle, 16th October (circa) 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127756: The last Triumph Herald - a 13/60 convertible, came off the No, 1 assembly line at Triumph Motor Company's Canley works, today. Mr. M. W. Sanders, director and general manager drove the white convertible off the line to cheers from workers. "The Herald has been a good friend to us through some difficult times," said Mr. Sanders, who was responsible for opening the Canley assembly where also the 532,412 various Herald cars have been made since the model was introduced in September 1959. A new model called the 1500 will take it's place on the line along with Spitfire and GT sports cars, 21st May 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127777: The former Choices shop in Albany Road, Roath, Cardiff, which is to be turned into a real ale bar. *AN award-winning brewer has revealed plans to transform an empty shop into CardiffÍs first 'real ale bar'. Rhymney Brewery says the bar would hark back to the traditional alehouses of the 1950s and 1960s and focus on 'good ale and good conversation'. The Merthyr-based brewer, 09/11/2011 (photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127805: This illuminated sleigh "towed" by a Volkswagon Beetle car with a reindeer mascot was placed outside Leamington Town Hall. While carols were amplified from the sleigh, members of Leamington & District Round Table mingled among Christmas shoppers collecting money to pay for the gifts of food and coal which they had distributed to elderly people in the area, 22nd December 1962 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127811: Disc Jockey and "Mr Fix-it" Jimmy Savile prepares with a group of supporters to set off from the Post House Hotel, Allesley, on a 12-mile sponsored jog around Coventry. Yesterday's run was one in a series being undertaken by Jimmy in a different city on each day this month to raise money for charity. He died on 29th October 2011, aged 84. 7th October 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127827: Every girl dreams of being a princess. That dream had a touch of reality today for these 16 Coventry girls, for they were treated like princesses. The girls, past and present pupils at Cardinal Wiseman School, went to Buckingham Palace and met the Duke of Edinburgh who presented them with the gold awards they gained under his scheme. Their mothers went too, and Sister Mary Colman, headmistress when the school first embarked on the Duke's award scheme 10 years ago, and Sister Agnes, whose responsibility it was at that time. At Cardinal Wiseman, there are now 100 girls taking the bronze award, 30 the silver and 25 the gold ' more than in any previous year. The girls receiving their "golds" today have covered a wide range of interests, including music, swimming, reading, dancing, cookery, needlework, typewriting, and badminton. The 16 are Josephine Fensom, Johanna Filipuik, Linda Hamilton, Monica Henry, Geraldine Igoe, Irene Krupa, Colleen Lissamer, Carmel Maguire, Mary Malone, Mary Maughan, Rose Meehan, Mary Naughton, Dawn O'Toole, Bernadette Thiedeman, Christine Union and Nora Wright. The present headmistress, Sister Frances Clare, is an enthusiastic supporter of the scheme, for which Sister Margaret has special responsibility. Sister Margaret said today: "The school has always considered the 'scheme to be of great value in the development of character, calling as it does for perseverance and determination." 13th July 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images