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ZUM4896066: Nov. 19, 1953 - Tenants Risk All To Save Their Pets: More than 100 residents of a block of council flats, yesterday defied an order to give up their pets mostly cats - or face eviction. Yesterday was the deadline for carrying out the order, but children wept their mothers rebelled. So when a van of the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals drove up to Bower and Domelton House, Wandsworth, S.W. excepting to go off with a load of cats. dogs and canaries, they went away with One cat. Most of the tenants said they would defy the council and some of the children threatened to go on a scroll strike if the order goes through / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4922775: Tue 31, 1954 - 31-3-54 Johnnie Ray arrives - Johnnie Ray, the emotional American singer, arrived at London Airport this morning to appear at the Palladium for two weeks from April 5th. Keystone Photo Shows: Johnnie Ray was greeted by fans who presented him with a black cat mascot, they are (L to R): Janette Robertson, Joan Handley and Kathleen Jones / Bridgeman Images
DUV4209216: Letters A B C D; Apricots; Harlequin; Balance; Balloon; Bebe; Cherries; Cat Chair; Dog; Blanket; Devil; Turkey; Flag. Engraving in "Alphabet de ma petite fille". Bernardin-Bechet and Fils, bookseller-publishers, Paris, around 1895. Unbreakable album on canvas. Bibliotheque des Bebes. 12 pages. Album containing a reading method and an illustrative abecedary. Dim: 29,5x19,5cm / Bridgeman Images
MPX5116634: Two striking numbers from Mia and Vicky. On the left Luana a 23-year-old model from Brazil, wears a brown spotted satin jumpsuit with bare midriff and gold seashell bra. On the right, over her black cat suit, 16-year-old French model Marie Christine models a crochet bikini with eyes forming the bra and lips forming the pants, July 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5161757: Young pop stars gathered at the Albert Memorial in London for a bread and water lunch to draw attention to Oxfams Christmas appeal. Pictured, Elaine Osborn serving bread and water to (left to right back row) Syd Barrett, Barry Fantoni, Gordon Waller, Roger Waters, (front row left to right) Nick Mason, Rick Wright, Paul Jones, Peter Asher and Cat Stevens. 8th December 1966 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5077018: The Lion Who Just Cant Change His Spots: Johnny is a mixed up cat. He is not really a lion, not really a leopard. He is a cross bread - a leopon. His name comes from his mothers side of the family. She is a lioness called Sonoko. His spots come from his leopard father, Kanbo. The leopard lives at a zoo in Kobe, Japan. Circa 1960 / Bridgeman Images
MAJ5031824: The constellation of Hydra, with a Curbeau that tingled it and a Cup of Balancing, originated from the myth of Apollo who had sent a crow with a cup full of water to make a sacrifice to Jupiter. Below the Hydre, the French astronomer Lalande (1732-1807) drew a Cat (felis) and Lacaille (1713-1762) a scientific apparatus, a Pneumatic Machine. Engraving from Camille Flammarion's “Les étoiles et les autres curiosites du ciel”, 1882. / Bridgeman Images
MPX5081301: All The Very Best.....From Mischief: You may think this is worse than setting the cat among the pigeons - setting it among the dogs. But it's all in a good cause. And if Mischief the Persian cat has an evil glint in her eye, itÕs only because she's being used as a dogsbody. Despite her name, she's there to bring out the best in the dogs - to get them used to cats. Then, when the dogs are guiding blind people, they won't go chasing them. Five-year-Old Mischief is an experienced member of the staff at the Princess Alexandra Guide dog Training Centre at Forfar, Scotland. She started work as kitten and has helped train more than 300 guide dogs. Her boss, Bob Forrester, who runs the home, said: "ItÕs important that our dogs don't give cats a second look.Ó Mischief does a good job - the dogs don't turn a hair when she's there. February 1973 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5068899: Unless my nose deceives me I smell mice, thinks Ginger the cat, and with typical canine caution he starts to investigate. Approach technique is everything where mouse hunting's concerned, and Ginger is a past master in the craft. Actually Snow-white the mouse knows a thing or two about the game as well, and by way of encouragement to Ginger he leaves the tip of his tail peeping tantilizingly round the door / Bridgeman Images
MPX5072297: Zippy new party clothes in paddy style. The skirts dress has a burgundy background to match the crepe, open-necked shirt top; price £10 15s. Long, sleeveless quilted jerkin, brightly printed on black, slips over a black crepe hooded cat-suit; price £18 complete. Both are by Simon Ellis, in sizes 10-14, from Dickins & Jones, Regent Street, London, W1. December 1970 / Bridgeman Images