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MPX5088937: Charles the seven year old chimpanzee can be excused for taking a very special interest in this book. For he is friends with many of the characters in it. The book is called "Lions on the Lawn," and was written by Mary Chipperfield, who is showing it to Charles. Mary, daughter of Jimmy Chipperfield, and a member of the famous circus family, has lived with and trained animals all her life. July 1971 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088947: Vladimir Vasiliev in the title role in the Bolshoi Ballet production of ñSpartacusî at the London Coliseum. June 1974 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088977: They're mine! Mrs. Broughton-Adderley tries on the pair of Queen Victoria's drawers that she had just bought. October 1977 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088989: Two die, but a woman lives as car is flattened. Rescue workers feared the worst at the scene of a crash on Monday night They expected that no one inside a family car crushed by a 30-ton lorry could possibly have survived. But onewoman did and she escaped with only a cut on her leg. Two other people in the car Ð a man and a woman Ð were killed. The accident happened at a motorway roundabout near Preston, Lancashire. The lorry toppled on to the car, a Vauxhall Viva with three people inside. The car was squashed until it was only about two feet high. A crane had to be brought to lift the lorry off the car. And then, as the rescue team tore at the wreckage, they heard a womanÕs voice and realized that someone was still alive. The occupants of the car are believed to be on holiday from South Africa. The lorry driver had to have hospital treatment for severe shock. May 1973 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5089003: Rudolf Nureyev as The Prince and Jennifer Penney as Clara in ñThe Nutcrackerî at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. November 1974 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5089016: Going out to the oyster beds at Whitstable to dredge the first Oysters. Part of the Oyster fleets. September 1931 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5089030: Women's Land Army. 20 year old Lewis Betty and Peggy Clarke of Gateshead Land Army cutting logs in Manchester timber farm. June 1945 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5089050: YouÕll get a ticket even if youÕre in the magic business, running around in coaches that turn into pumpkins, parking regulations have to be observed. Cinderella was therefore taking quite a chance when she parked her coach right next to a No Parking sign. Fortunately, the sign belonged to the Royal Opera house, Covent Garden. And thatÕs where Cinderella is appearing. December 1972 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5089074: The Army takes over the filling of petrol tankers and the distribution of supplies of fuel in the capital following the strike by tanker drivers. October 1953 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5089102: C.W.A. Scott, who achieved prominence as an aviator in 1931 when he flew from England to Australia in a De Havilland "Moth" taking 9 days 4 hours 11 minutes. In 1934 Scott won the England to Melbourne race with Campbell Black as co-pilot. The race was a thrilling one and the distance of 11,300 miles was covered in an hour less than 3 days. Circa 1935 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5089114: Plans for the Maplin project are introduced at a London Press conference by Environment Secretary Geoffrey Rippon (left) and Mr. Eldon Griffiths, Environment Minister with special responsibility for the Maplin project. July 1973 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5089123: Animals Dogs: He's scruffy looking... but lovable. He cost a few shillings when he was a little ball of wool. But to pensioner Selena Greenwood he's worth every penny of the £300 she has spent on him over the last 2 1/2yrs. Bobby you could call him an old English Sheepdog has spent the last 2 1/2 yrs living it up away from home ...with 5 star treatment at a boarding kennel because his mistress had no home for him after she came out of hospital. Now Bobby is being rehabilitated for soon he and his owner will be together again when she gets a home of her own. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5089130: Some of the dogs taking part in the Richmond Dog Show next Saturday, were in need of a little training in department. The answer was to ask some of the girls from a Model Agency to help out. So today in Hyde Park they met. Shall we dance Because it was so cold model Nicky Howorth let "Pilgrim" the Afghan Hound wear her Maxi-Coat. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5089147: Forty schoolboys are planning to take to the air under their own propulsion. The lads, from the Lincoln Road Boys School, Peterborough, Lincolnshire, intend "flying like birds" across the local River Nene, using a supermarket roof as a launching pad. May 1971 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5089151: John, proving that flying is no Pushover. Student John Lavery was all ready for take-off in his home-made, pedal-powered "aircraft" on Sunday (21-2-71). But minutes later his hopes of a £10,000 aviation prize took a temporary nosedive. A gust of wind made the machine keel over - before it was even airborne. John, 19, and four fellow students are bidding for a prize offered by the Royal Aeronautical Society for the first man-powered flight over one mile. The trial run - in the Lancaster University car park-ended when the pram-wheeled undercarriage buckled as the "aircraft" veered off course. The attempt was part of the university's Rag Week activities. Our Picture Shows; John prepares for take-off. February 1971 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5087085: The Spanish City amusement park in Whitley Bay - holidaymakers enjoy a spin on one of the rides, c.1960 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5087112: In full dress uniform members of the famous "F" (sphinx) Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, discuss their plans prior to their brilliant display at the Royal Show, c.1930 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5087118: Guns of the 4th Light Regiment firing their salute from the promenade at Roker, Sunderland, 20 March 1974 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5087131: The jump through the paper hoop one of the many solo motorcycle tricks shown at Catterick on Wednesday at the Royal Signals Olympia Display Team's rehearsal, c.1940 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5087138: The Royal Corps of Signals Display team at the Tyneside Summer Exhibition, 07/08/1968 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5087141: Former bassist of The Animals pop group Chas Chandler, pictured with his wife Madeleine, 8 October 1978 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5087144: These men of the 4/5th Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (T.A.), seen on board a landing craft in Amble harbour, were taking part in a battle along the Northumberland sand dunes. Exercise Seahawk was the battalion's first taste of amphibious warfare, c.1960 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5087147: The problem of transporting a car across a river is soon solved by Royal lEngineers with the use of a tracked raft. These recruits are demonstrating the military engineering at the Royal lEngineers training centre somewhere in the Northern Command area, c.1940 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5087183: Young toddler playing in the back garden oh his home in Erith, Kent, July 1943 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5087197: Margaret Thatcher visits Eldon Square sport centre, Newcastle chatting to Raymond Foster, c.1970 / Bridgeman Images
