MPX5100161: Children from St. Andrew's Church of England School, Eastern Green, Coventry, prayed for astronauts safe return from the Apollo 13 space mission, 15th April 1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100163: Crew of a Royal Navy minesweeper seen here at action stations during coastal convoy duty off the south west coast of England, September 1942 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100169: A passing place - if you have a boat as flood waters cover the Bywell to Ovingham Road in 1979 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100170: Actress Joan Collins and Evie Bricusse, January 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100173: The three-masted German Schooner sailing ship Landkirchen at Newcastle Quayside, c. 1940 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100174: Betty Graves and Keith having fun on a back garden swing, October 8th 1933 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100180: Geoff Hunt, sales manager of Airmaster Installations, Bensham Bank, Gateshead, does a King Canute impersonation in trying to stem the tide of floodwater at his factory in 1979 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100186: Jean Wooler walking "Misty" the donkey, January 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100187: The three-masted German barquentine Nauschutz lying at Newcastle Quayside discharging her cargo of china clay, c. 1930 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100195: The grain ship Killoran at Tyne Dock on the River Tyne, c. 1930 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100197: Mr. David Connell prepares for the worst as flooding threatens the Bywell estate, Northumberland in 1979 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100201: The centre of Ovingham flooded after heavy overnight rain had forced up the level of the River Tyne in 1979 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100205: 1975 Brighton Toy Fair. Small boy cries as Traffic Warden confiscate toy pedal car for illegal parking January 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100817: Mike McCartney's Wedding. Mike McGear and his bride Angela Fishwick. June 1968 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100818: Wings play at the Newcastle University, Paul McCartney with wife Linda, 13 February 1972 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100835: Mike McCartney's Wedding. Paul McCartney, Jim McCartney (father) groom, the bride at rear sister who came from America, Mrs. Angela McCartney (Jim's wife) brides father and Ruth McCartney holding the grooms doll . June 1968 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100838: Wings play at the Newcastle University - Paul McCartney, Drummer Denny Seiwell, Henry McCulloughfar right, Denny Laine (bass, obscurring Seiwell), 13 February 1972 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100861: Mike McCartney's Wedding. Paul and Jane Asher pictured with Mike in white suit and his bride Angela at Mr. McCartney Senior's home where the reception was held. June 1968 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100863: V. C. G. B. Luncheon: Paul Jones, Marie Anne and Manfred Mann, September 1964 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100866: V. C. G. B. Luncheon: L to R. Bernard Delfort, Cilla Black getting her award and Keith Fordyce, September 1964 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100870: Mike McCartney's Wedding. Paul and Jane Asher pictured with Mike in white suit and his bride Angela at Mr. McCartney Senior's home where the reception was held. June 1968 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100873: Film legend Michael Caine in Newcastle Central Station during the filming of Get Carter on 26th August 1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100879: Film legend Michael Caine in Newcastle Central Station during the filming of Get Carter on 26th August 1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100882: John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono are having a weeks love-in their room at the Hilton Hotel, Amsterdam. They will stay in bed for seven days - with fruit, flowers and peace signs, March 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100884: Mike McCartney's Wedding. Jane Asher takes a photograph of the bride and groom Mike McGear and Angela Fishwick. June 1968 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100886: Film legend Michael Caine signing autographs in Newcastle Central Station during the filming of Get Carter, 26th August 1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100910: Film legend Michael Caine off-camera with a glass of wine in Godrey Davies car hire office in Newcastle Central Station during the filming of Get Carter on 26th August 1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100416: American senator Edward Kennedy pictured with his wife Joan on arrival at Heathrow Airport in London. 17th April 1971 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100420: American senator Edward Kennedy speaking to Doctor John Brotherson, Chief medical Officer for Scotland. Kennedy is on a 5 day visit to Britain as head of the Senate Health sub-committee, to study the National Health Service. 10th September 1971 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100426: "Hello" girl says goodbye at 79: Telephone operator Florrie Smith is saying goodbye to her job at the age of seventy-nine. The machines are taking over. Widow Florrie - pictured here at work on Monday (10-3-69) will sever her connection with the General Post Office when Newick exchange, Sussex, goes automatic on Wednesday (19-3-69). She will not be transferred to a different exchange because she doesn't want to travel to work. At Newick, where she has been on the switchboard since 1928, she has been living on the premises and doubling as the caretaker, too. Now she plans to move home. She plans to live nearby with her daughter. "I'd like to find an evening job, "she said, March 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100428: Wendy Richard seen here on the set of Carry on Girls at Pinewood studios April 1973 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100439: The Guys and Dolls pop group, February 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100443: Mr. and Mrs. Gooder examine part of the structure they have discovered at the dig on the Arbury Estate, 2nd June 1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100449: Unusual/Suit/Bowler Hat: Man Scraps Jaguar Car: On the other hand, Sales Director Mr. Graham Parkes, who says he can no longer afford to run his 15 mile per gallon Jaguar, and was disgusted at dealers' offers, decided to watch its destruction, February 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100455: Gertrude Ederle, who became the first woman to swim the English Channel in 1926 with her father Henry Ederle, August 1926 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100458: Gertrude Ederle, who became the first woman to swim the English Channel, August 1926 / Bridgeman Images