MPX5136159: Militant equipment used by women Suffragettes during their campaign for the right to vote. Seen in a museum in South Kensington, London. Holloway prison cutlery, a daily ration of food, a Skilly mug and a Suffragette badge. Food shown here was actually served to women suffragettes who had been imprisoned. 19th February 1947 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5136220: All the girls (Curers) are idle, still few herring come in, but they have to be on duty - standing by as it were - from 8am to 5pm in case herring come in. For that reason they cannot take on other jobs so the days are spent in idleness - just knitting, walking about and so on. Scotch curers - all on duty with nothing to do just walking about until 5 p.m. on the Quayside at Yarmouth, Norfolk. 26th October 1947 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5136235: Hop pickers arrive on the train from London to help harvest this year's crop. This family are shown leaving Paddock Wood station heading off to the hop fields - note the carpet! Paddock Wood remains the centre of hop growing in Kent and is home to 'The Hop Farm', a local museum attraction. 3rd September 1942 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5136238: The trial of Miss Thelma Bamberger for perjury was held at the Old Bailey in August 1920. The Crown alleges that she made false statements under oath during her suit for divorce in which the King's Proctor intervened. Her she is seen leaving her doctor's house in Harley Street before going to Bow-street, where, after a very brief appearance, she was committed for trial and bail was granted. She looked very ill and leaned heavily on a walking-stick for support. 4th August 1920 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5136243: Doing it 'just like the builders do', a hive of industry going on in the new children's playground opened on the blitz site of St. Luke's Church, Peckham, London. The playground has been opened by the Camberwell Playgrounds Committee, who have spent over ï¾£50 fencing the site and providing tools for the kids to use. Each night at 5.30pm when the playground is opened by one of the supervisors, the children clamour to be first so that they can have their favourite tool. A bucket of cement is handed out and with sand from the play pit and bricks from the site, the work in progress commences. Some of the boys prefer to play soldiers with guns which have been given. 13th May 1948 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5136264: The Avro Blue Steel a British air-launched, rocket-propelled nuclear stand-off missile, built to arm the V bomber force. It was the primary British nuclear deterrent weapon of the 1960s. Our Picture Shows RAF ground crew fuelling the missile with hydrogen peroxide and kerosene at RAF Scampton on the missile debut to the press. 14th February 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images