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MPX5077673: Tommy Steele who rode on the top of a stage coach as Dick Whittington in the Lord Mayors show changed, after travelling through City of London in the procession, in a police cell in Wood Street Police Station. Tommy changed out of the Dick Whittington costume into normal clothes. But not before throwing off his long wooly underwear that he wore to keep out the cold! November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5077678: Electric Car/Hybrid Car: New car invention. Mr. John de Grunchy. He has developed a car which he claims gives upwards of 150 miles to the gallon by combining petrol and battery power. His prototype. His Petelec, based on a fiat 500, uses four heavy duty 12-volt car batteries in conjunction with a 3-h.p. garden rotorvator engine. December 1974 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5077118: BEA's 'Personality Girl', Heathrow Airport stewardess Heather Angus (21) from Gerrards Cross, Bucks, at the London Hilton Hotel received the keys of her prize, a Ford Cortina 1600E from racing driver Graham Hill. Bea Personality Girl, Heather Angus with her prize, the Ford Cortina 1600E. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5077129: Margaret Savage who is making her debut as leading lady singer in "The Marriage of the Minsters" at London's Victoria Palace , meets the Scots Guards at Chelsea Barracks before they mount the Queen's Guards. Watched by Piper Iain Rodgers, Drummer Malcolm MacKenzie and L/Cpl David MacLeod, Margaret attempts to play the 'pipes'. They are all from Glasgow. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5077149: Entertainment: Show business people and others attended tonight's opening of the new production of Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" at the Seville Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue. Margaret Coronia sister of tonight's leading lady, Marion Montgomery who has flown from Georgia, USA to watch her sister in the show. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5077157: The crowds at the waters edge on the coast of Normandy watching the America, a Fokker C-2 monoplane, in which Commander Richard Byrd and his companions were forced to descend into the sea. The accident occurred as Byrd attempted to win the 'Orteig Prize', a ,000 reward for the first successful non-stop flight from New York City to Paris. June 1927 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5077167: Mrs. Giselle Leopold, 30, of nenley-on-Thames, is to take on the job of "steeplejill" to pay for the boarding school education of ber son, aged eight. But Mrs. Leopold, who left her native Poland in 1946, is'nt a bit scared. During the war she was in a Polish gliding squadron, so I' m not afraid of heights", she says. Steeplejill Mrs. Giselle Leopold on a chimney owned by her employers in Winchmore Hill, London. May 1948 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5077186: Margaret Savage who is making her debut as leading lady singer in "The Marriage of the Minsters" at London's Victoria Palace , meets the Scots Guards at Chelsea Barracks before they mount the Queen's Guards. Watched by Piper Iain Rodgers, Drummer Malcolm MacKenzie and L/Cpl David MacLeod, Margaret attempts to play the 'pipes'. They are all from Glasgow. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5077236: Entertainment television programs. Softly, Softly BBC 1's popular and long-running police series will be seen in colour for the first time starting 20th November 1969 . Susan Tebbs, plays police woman detective constable Donald in the series, who is one of the four new faces seen in the series. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5077261: Paris Fashions 1971: British model Vicki Hodge wearing multi-coloured shorts, top and beret by Loris Azzaro (designer). The man is Luthje Reinhard wearing shorts-Jumpsuit with detachable trouser legs by Loris Azzaro (designer). Belt with metal hand by Loris Azzaro. January 1971 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5077274: 'Riding the Marches" ceremony at Linlithgow. The Provost and Magistrate walking the Burgh Marshes at Linlithgow . Leaded by the Town Panel. It was a picture sight to see the ancient ceremony. A fine of £300 is levied on anyone obstructing them. The ceremony dates back to the 14th century. June 1927 / Bridgeman Images