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MPX5097856: Dress Rehearsal of the London Festival Ballet production of the Nutcracker Ballet by Tchaikovsky at the London Festival Hall. Remarkable was the part of the girl Clara which was played by Jacqueline Edgley aged 13. The Snow Fairy was played by Carmen Mathe, the Nutcracker Prince by Andre Prokovsky and the Sugar Plum Fairy by Galina Samtsova. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5097862: A group of women cluster eagerly around one of the rescued men from the British Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier HMS Courageous which was sunk by German U-boat U-29 in the Western Approaches at the start of the Second World War. The sailor reassures them with words of comfort outside the barrack gates as they enquire about their loved ones, 20th September 1939 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5097870: What's it all about daddy? When 1,000 angry trade unionists marched through a town yesterday this young chap registered his own protest -- a large yawn. He found the boos and banners were just one big bore as he jogged piggy-back style through Stockport, Cheshire. The demonstration was the latest chapter in the marathon row between unions and bosses of the American-owned textile firm Roberts Arundel Ltd. March 1967 / Bridgeman Images