MPX5089636: Entertainment: Dance: Folk Dancing. In this dance from the Phillipine Islands called "Tinkling" you need twinkling feet for the girls holding the bamboo canes move them about very fast and one has to dance in between without tripping up. The two girls wearing their national dancing dress called a "Patadiong". September 1953 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5089667: At an exclusive hairdresser's shop called Samson and Delilah, in Counduit Street in London's West End there are four pretty girls with 'barberous' intentions. They are dressed as Mother Christmasses and give customers a haircut, shampoo, facial massage and manicure. (Left to right) Maria Malvist (18), supplies chocolates and drinks to the Christmastide customers, her sister Anna Malvisi (19) will trim the hair with scissors and razor, Sylvia Christo (21) with a pot of cream offers a facial massage, and Susan Peacock (20) is the manicurist. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5090193: Police with children: Simon Dingley aged 4 of Arthur Street Little Lever was terribly upset when he saw on television that Father Xmas had been arrested so he sat down and wrote an appeal to the poilce for his release. His sorrow turned to joy today when he was visited by P.C. George Fobersby from the Bolton Police force who put him in touch with the station by phone to receive an assurance that the distinguished visitor would be around as usual. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5090653: Barber Shop: Michael Holliday having hair cut at Ronnies of Streatham. Sidney Hayman, aged 45, of Pullman Court, Streatham, was pop singer Michael Holliday's regular barber until about 2 year ago when he moved to a different shop and Michael Holliday lost track of him. Later Michael Holliday phoned for an appointment at Ronnies, Leigham Road, Streatham, where Sidney is now working, and went down there two hours later with his son Michael Agedio, from their home in Bishops walk, Addington, for a reunion and better hair cut. June 1960 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5090706: Actress Hy Hazel relaxes as she studies her part as Principal Boy in the Puss in Boots panto at the Manchester Palace in a new dry heat rheumatic bath. This bath, imported from Paris for the openign of a new beauty clinic in Manchester, is a refresher for the nervously exhausted. December 1953 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5090733: American film actress Alexis Smith who arrived in London today Friday. She is here to make a new British film at Nettlefold studios to be called "Sleeping Tiger" Alexis were a pale blue dress with chiffon overskirt, black leather shoes with diamond buckle. November 1953 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5090756: Members of the "Warwick Lions," "Hackney Comets," and "Arsenal Aces," cycle speedway clubs battled on the Warwick Lions track, Hackney, for "The Battle of Britain" "Trophy" awarded to the individual champion. 21-years-old Frank Duffy, of Hackney, with his trophies. September 1953 / Bridgeman Images