MPX5127465: Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales during his visit to the North East, 31 May 1978 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5125501: Clothing: Fashion: Stockings and garters. Model sitting in armchair with telephone, 1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127513: London May Queen Molly Mantell seen here during a May Day Festival in Central London . 4th May 1947 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127552: Pop star Robin Gibb, lead singer with the famous Bee Gees pop group was taken ill during the week-end and is now in the Regents Park Nursing home, London. He should have been on his way with the other boys to start a tour in American including the famous Hollywood Bowl. He is suffering from a mystery illness. His fellow Bee Gees visit him; left to right: Vince Melouney, Colin Peterson, and the three brothers Maurice, Robin and Barry Gibb. July 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5125534: Men's Fashions: Tailor measuring and sewing in his workshop, preparing next years designs. December 1957 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5125537: Men's Fashions: Tailor measuring and sewing in his workshop, preparing next years designs. December 1957 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5125543: Pastry Chef seen here at work in his Kitchen, 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5125561: Richard Burton filming: 'Under Milk Wood' on location at Fishguard, South Wales. February 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5125573: Sport: Athletics: Ron Jone 100 metre sprinter for England and his Club the Enfield and Haringay Hamers seen here training on the leafy Streets of Enfield, 1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5125618: Radio London: Pirate Radio Station. General scene around the Motor Vessel Galaxy which is home to Radio London. Whilst the disc jockeys broadcast to the nation, the skipper ensures that they keep 12 miles off shore, the chef prepares a meal and the technicians ensure that equipment is working, 1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5125627: Singer Frank Sinatra who is in the United Kingdom to perform two charity concerts in aid of childrens charities. Is seen here in a Bell Jet Ranger helicopter at Gatwick Airport, shortly after arriving in his private jet. Sinatra took the short flight from Gatwick to Battersea heli-port to avoid the capitals traffic. 4th May 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5125630: Singer Frank Sinatra who is in the United Kingdom to perform two charity concerts in aid of childrens charities. Is seen here about to board a Bell Jet Ranger helicopter at Gatwick Airport, shortly after arriving in his private jet. Sinatra took the short flight from Gatwick to Battersea heli-port to avoid the capitals traffic. The woman to the right is believed to be Barbara Marx the fourth Mrs Sinatra 4th May 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5125639: The Towering Bewick House high rise flats in Newcastle 2 April 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5125654: Bewick House high rise flats in Newcastle, 15 September 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5125666: Dr Who TV Series. Actor and comedian Bernard Bresslaw, who plays a monster in the programme, does'nt scare his 7 year old son James. 11th November 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5125726: Signalman Raymond Short, 20, of Fossway, Walkergate, Newcastle, joined the Army after leaving Walkergate Secondary Modern School, he trained as a signal operator and went to the 30 Signal Regiment at Dorset. The year previous to this photo he had spent with the Navy on board the 12,000 ton assault ship HMS Fearless. The Fearless docked on the River Tyne for the first time and stayed for a 10 day visit. Two fellow North-Easterners were among the crew - Graeme Lawson, 24, of Sandringham Road, South Gosforth, who works with the satellite Skynet and John Ramm, of Woodhorn Road, Newbiggin, who joined the ship only two weeks previous after finishing his training. 21st January, 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5125756: A plaque commemorating Benjamin Thompson who surveyed the route for the Newcastle to Carlisle railway line and erected a bridge at Wylam to link the village to the new railway, 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127278: Singer Dorothy Squires in Newcastle on May 25 1972, to launch an appeal for Action for the Crippled child. Dorothy was presented with 20,000 stamps towards the appeal by the North Eastern Co-op, May 25 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127311: Drummer Colin Peterson, who is suing the Bee Gees pop group, may be "cutting off his nose to spite his face," a judge suggested in London on Wednesday (24-9-69). Mr. Petersen, 23, who says he was sacked from the three -man group last month, seeks a temporary High Court order to stop the use of the Bee Gee name without his permission. He is seen here with his wife Joanne. September 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127350: Beating the bounds - Llantrisant - Freemen and residents pass through the borough to commence the custom of Beating the Bounds - 28th May 1947 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127368: Henry Cooper v Classius Clay Wembly Stadium 18th June 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127398: Battle of Trafalgar Commemoration Trafalgar day service. The Royal Navy holds it annual service in front of Nelson's Column. The Band of the Royal Marines band stand in the centre of the parade. The parade stands at ease, October 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127431: The band of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers led a parade through Newcastle to celebrate St Georges Day on 23rd April 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127440: Comedian Bobby Pattinson is given a bumpy ride by the Dallas Boys, back in June 1977 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127449: Radio Caroline pirate radio ship off the coast of Ramsey on the Isle of Man. 15th August 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127470: Prince of Wales inspects Seaforth Highlanders during a trooping of the colour ceremony at Dover College. 28th June 1929 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127473: Hundreds of wild ponies driven from Exmoor are sold at Bampton, Devon, Pony Fair. Before the war they sold 2/6d, today (1948) an average price was £5 per pony. Farmers and dealers gathered in the small town where in a sea of mud and heavy rain, the ponies were auctioned. Owners who drove the ponies from the moor, struggle to get the animals into the auctioning enclosure. Only manpower can be used to move the ponies which have never before felt the hand of man. 29th October 1948 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127476: Rosebank Cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland, 11th March 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127500: William Rackliffe 54, has made a water cycle from an ex- R.A.F. bicycle frame mounted on two Spitfire fuel tanks and geared by the mechanism of a tank turret and he hopes to cycle across the Channel to France on the contraption. Rackliffe holds onto a rope for his first trial on the River Thames. 18th April 1949 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127509: Eleven year old Johnny Oswald is the centre of attention in his smart evening suit as he is surrounded by a group of pretty girls all wearing crinoline style ball gowns during the Juvenile and Junior Old Time Dancing Contest at the Hammersmith Palais. The group are all from the Lindsay Dancing School in Dunfermline, Fifeshire in Scotland. 4th June 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127533: A Village street scene. Fishermen, Net menders, knitters and coracle builders are all at work, and yet, pervading it all is a feeling of leisure and peace, that can only be found amongst craftsmen and in ancient and quiet places, c. 1945 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127567: The finals of the North of England Juvenile Jazz Band Championships at Brough Park Greyhound Stadium in Byker, Newcastle on 8th October 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127588: Time for a sing-song: More than 36,000 Newcastle schoolchildren are getting their own Top of the Pops for safety. For their singing songs Ð pop tunes with words they have writen themselves Ð about getting over the Green Cross Code message. Sergeant Noel Knox is pictured with children at Spital Tongues Infants' School in Newcastle 11 October 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127597: A female butcher seen here at work in her shop, using the mincer 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127600: It was the end of six weeks' public dieting for the 12 Sunday Sun slimmers last Thursday. A packed audience came to Jopling's store, Sunderland, to see the final weigh-in of our brave contestants, and to watch two fast-moving fashion shows in which all the models were Sunday Sun readers 18 April 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127642: The Sunday Sun's Junior Dance Festival at the Mayfair Ballroom in Newcastle, the competition ran over three Sundays in January 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images