MPX5098200: Troops line the promenade deck of the Empire Windrush as she pulls away from the Mouth of the Thames on her long trip to the Middle East. The 14,000 ton transport now, run by the New Zealand Shipping Company was before the second world war, used for cruises in pre-war Germany, and then as a German troopship and as a mothership to German submarines, before being captured by the British and taken as a war prize. June 1947 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098224: Stories of the sixties. 1961 - Tragedy struck the Surrey town of Croydon on the night of August 9th when a chartered viking aircraft carrying 34 school-boys aged between 13 and 16, and two teachers, all from the Lanfranc Secondary School, crashed into a mountain, shortly before landing at Sola Airport, Stavanger, Norway. The entire party, and the plane's crew of three, were killed instantly. The wreckage 1,700ft. up the mountainside, was not found until the following day. All the bodies were flown back to Croydon for a mass funeral. The School of sorrow. The gymnasium at the Lanfranc School, Croydon, is turned into a chapel for the coffins of the 34 boys and two teachers who died in the air crash. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098419: Actor-singer Jess Conrad challenged Actor Larry Taylor to a duel in Regents Park because of a dispute concerning ownership of car number Plate JC 21. Jess Conrad's face was insured for £20,000 by Lloyds. After the duel had been "fought" for a few minutes near the open air theatre in Regents Park a Parks Police Cyclist arrived on the scene and told them that dueling was not aloud and they would have to stop. Jess Conrad's second was Andrew Ray. Larry Taylor's second was Rocky Taylor. The Judge was model Susan Louise 19. The contest was not decided due to the intervention of the police Jess wore a white shirt and Larry a black sweater. Jess and Larry pictured during the duel, February 1972 / Bridgeman Images