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MPX5127244: This town has celebrated November 11th for 200 years. A local brand of explosive, known as Fenny Poppers, have been set off every November 11th since 1730 by the towns people of Fenny Stratford, a lively village in Buckinghamshire. Squire Brown Willis of Whaddon Hall started the custom several centuries ago by providing in his will for a perpetual fund to pay for the annual celebrations. In view of a crowd of Fenny Stratford townspeople, the Vicar of St. Martins Rev. C. A. Wheeler, sets off the Poppers, c. 1950 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127300: A evening in for a husband and wife watching a coin-operated television. These coin operated television were an alternative to buying a set. These days, renting a television set is a dying habit. Changing technology, huge advances in reliability and falling prices for equipment has severely reduced the rental market. November 1959 (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
MPX5127375: Eight-year-old twins, Shirley and Carol Barnett, of Coventry, open a chocolate Easter egg to find a real live chick. The egg was made by their mother, Mrs. Valerie Barnett, a full-time student in the Creative Studies department at Coventry Technical College where a seasonal class was held to produce Easter fare. 9th April 1976 (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
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