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MPX5087888: To open at the Princess Theatre is Italian Puppet man Vittorio Podrecca's show the Piccoli. He arrive in this country with no less the 1200 puppets and 10 assistants. December 1953 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5087911: Holding presents they have bought with the rest of the banqueting staff at Skyway Airport Hotel for the mentally handicapped children at State Park Hospital at Bristol. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5087916: Harlequins v Newport. Harlequins struggle to gain possession of the ball in a line out near the Newport 25 yard line. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5087920: Sir Geoffrey Howe: Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe, his wife Lady Elspeth, and their pet dog Budget, surprised regulars at The Bell pub in Outwood, Surrey on Saturday March 6 when they all popped in for a beer. Sir Geoffrey dropped no hints about his budget plans for drinkers. Perhaps he was getting a round in before putting a scowl on the faces of the nations drinkers. Lap Dog .Budget takes a drop or two, with Sir Geoffrey and Lady Howe. March 1982 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5087939: Mrs. Hambrook of the Old Manor Hotel, Bracknell, Berks, offered to look after a week old piglet of a large litter. She did not bargain for the pig taking possession of the hotel. Fernando, the name given to the piglet, decided the luxuries of a hotel were well worth cultivating and so he meandered around the hotel looking for tasty morsels. Customers soon took Fernando for granted and although the piglet never took to drink he discovered drinkers were good companions, and whenever there was a party Fernando was there. Soon Fernando became too much of a handful for Mrs. Hambrook and so, having saved his life, he has to go back to his brothers and sisters to be fattened up for the bacon factory. The staff of the hotel are very sad, but they all realise that a growing Fernando will be too big to keep as a pet any longer. Fernando with Mrs. Hambrook (left) causes quite a lot of amusement to the customers in the lounge at the old Manor Hotel. February 1949 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5087951: Arthur Mason is 23 years old he can box, wrestle, swim dive, ride horses, fence, dance (ballroom beep-bop and good at every sport) and has won 3 perfect Man competitions. He has a girl friend, Vera Day who played with him in "Fit as a Fiddle" and she soon learned that despite his figure, she had one just as good and so Arthur cannot lord it over Vera in the matter of torsos. Arthur is an East End boy and a part in his new film will be an East End boy, it is about boxing. And it is called Dangerous Return". Me once stowed away to America and served in Germany and Holland in the amry and won several boxing competitions. Of course Vera admits that Arthur's keep fit exercises has helped her a lot. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5087983: War Rations: This picture shows the amount of milk, butter eggs, sugar and meat that each adult was allowed a week during the Second World War, c.1960 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088074: The biggest national event in the world of young pianists for two years, the Final of the National Junior Piano Playing Competition 1969, sponsored by the British piano makers, was held at the Purcell Room of the Royal Festival Hall this morning. The winner in the Junior section, 9 year old Francis Rayner from Glamorgan pictured playing an encore after being awarded the first prize. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088128: Timelord: Clock repairer Bill Marshall seen here repairing the movement to a mantle clock. 1960 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088129: Timelord: Clock repairer Bill Marshall seen here repairing the movement to a mantle clock. 1960 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088167: The District Nurse: General scenes of District Nurse Muggeride out on her rounds visit her elderly patients. Seen here bathing a patients feet. Circa 1960 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088182: The District Nurse: General scenes of District Nurse Muggeride out on her rounds visit her elderly patients. Seen here bathing a patients feet. Circa 1960 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088215: Shiny gold and silver fabrics were one of the biggest stories in the latest Paris fashion shows. Put a sparkle into your life with one of the new Lurex sweaters coming into the shops right now. Team it with wide trousers or a long, dark skirt, and you have a look that will put a gleam into any man's eye! Halter-necked top comes in silver with black, white, or red. Medium size only, at £1.99, available from all branches of Dorothy Perkins. Jewellery from Adrien Mann. August 1973 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088220: Entertainment Dance Ballet. Maryon Lane one of the principals in the sadlers wells ballet pictured during rehearsal. September 1953 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088238: The Seal Slaughter Begins. A shot echoed out across the waters of the Wash, off England's East coast on Tuesday (10-7-73), and a baby seal fell dead. It was the first of 380 seal pups doomed to be slaughtered in the next two weeks. That is the death toll that the Government, which controls the annual cull of common seals, is permitting this year. Their pelts will be used to make sealskin coats. What's left goes into pet foods. Angry animal-lovers and conservationists had hoped to stop the killings. But the team of hunters with. 22 rifles avoided a confrontation with would-be saboteurs by sailing out of the Lincolnshire village of Sutton Bridge at an unexpected hour. Government observers on board the hunters, base-vessel Mizpah, and a Press party on another boat, saw killings that were quick and clean, made by hunters operating from speedboats. In five and a half hours, the hunters had shot and skinned fifty-five seals, which could fetch up to £500 at fur auctions. The grim harvest... three buckets full of seal pelts are landed at Sutton Bridge. July 1973 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088247: Animals Sheep: Allan Mate assists manager John Watson, Kinder Scout gamekeeper and seven helpers at the South Head Farm sheep dip. November 1949 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088255: Film Actor David Niven, and his wife Hjordis arrived in London from Geneva today, for the Noel Coward Birthday Celebration November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088262: Trooper Bernard "Dixie" Dean a Cleethorpes Lincs; fisherman wounded in the thigh in France. He is seen lifting weights with his feet to help bending of the knee. May 1945 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088278: When will we ever learn? A seal lies dead on a bright blustery beach not for from families enjoying their summer holiday. It is a seaside snap from Norfolk that should shame the Government. Experts say our seals are being killed off by a deadly distemper virus. And their immunity is being lowered by the millions of tons of chemical waste being poured into the North Sea every year. The pollution crisis is highlighted by the case of the poison-packed ship Karin B, which was turned back from British ports yesterday. Each tide brings more victims to the shores where seals used to delight children as they splashed and played. Their bright eyes are dimmed and their shiny coats dull in death. Paul Vodden of Greenpeace forecast, "We are talking about a ecological disaster, perhaps the biggest ever to hit Europe' wildlife." Disaster.... The seals are dying every day. September 1988 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088293: Fishing industries: Herrings. fisherwoman mounting herrings on a machine in a Cannery. January 1940 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088322: Animals Nature Reserves. Giraffe's at Windsor Safari park. September 1972 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088334: Students demonstration against the Springboks and apartheid system. Students charge through the line of policemen in Talbot road, but not many got past. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088343: Steve Harley (3rd left) and Cockney Rebel. Seen here at London Airport arriving back from New York, 26/02/1975 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088344: Heathrow Airport: Mr. Jeremy Thorpe M.P. leader of the Liberal Party. September 1974 / Bridgeman Images
