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MPX5103338: Five years old Ian Boiston from Sutherland, on holiday in London wanted to see the Horse Guards in Whitehall so his mother took him along. "I only had my back turned five minutes," said mother, when I heard Ian screaming. When I looked round, to my horror, only his rear portion was visible, legs kicking." He had his head caught in the pillared balustrade of the new public offices in Parliament street, June 1955 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5103415: Labour MP for Nuneaton Leslie Huckfield pictured with police officers after appealing to the crowds for calm after fighting broke out outside a coke depot in Saltley, Birmingham. A senior police officer was badly hurt as a lorry burst through hundreds of miners blockading the depot as 1500 pickets battled with police and lorry drivers. 8th February 1972 / Bridgeman Images