MPX5070674: Salt mines of Romania: Having appearance of ice and snow 400 feet below surface at salt mines Slanic Romania. The workers are very healthy. Mine produces 80,000 tones a year, a State industry 500 men employed. The mine has been worked for many centuries probably by ancient Romans. January 1927 P012175 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5070727: Children Nurseries: 4 year old puppet prodigy. Bobby Francis age 4 is an expert manipulator of puppets. He belongs to the Westborough Nursery School, Guildford, Surrey, and performs with 12 dolls, including dragons and fairies. A clothes horse has been converted into a theatre and around it twice weekly the toddlers assemble and thoroughly enjoy the show. January 1945 P012143 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5070741: This was the scene out side Newcastle-on-Tyne Police Court when 127 shipyard workers appeared on a charge of taking part in a strike in connection with a trade dispute at Walker-On-Tyne shipyard. The crowd numbered about 500, who waited to hear the verdict of the court, but the case was adjourned for the solicitors to prepare their defence. December 1944 P012070 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5071256: Animals - Elephants: Stepping out with no Trousers. The one with the short, fat legs is Khali the elephant. The others displaying their shapely limbs are wardens at the Blair Drummond Safari Park, near Stirling in Scotland. And they face a rather chilly start to the new season. Because their new uniforms have turned up -- minus trousers. This year is the Park's 10th anniversary so the owners have splashed out and bought all the staff new uniforms. But the suppliers say it will be at least another month before the trousers turn up. In the meantime, the wardens have been told to stage a cover-up operation for the sake of their Credentials!. March 1979 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5071385: "Free Palestine" Demonstration: 8 year old Palestinian boy Tariq Attia whose father was killed fighting Israelis in Palestine in March 1968. His father was a Guerilla and Tariq is wearing a Guerilla uniform waving a flag carried shoulder high. He lives at Paddington at present. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images