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MPX5075447: Education Equality: A new comprehensive school at Leigh Park; Havant; Hampshire; run by an attractive blonde head teacher; Miss Joan Gregory; has earned the name "unisex school". The girls and boys are given exactly the same curriculum - girls learning to shape metal on anvils in metal work classes etc. ; and boys learning the art of needlecraft and how to cook. The girls at metal work; Nicola Samphier (13) on anvil; and 12 year old Susan Withell on the forge. Also pictured is metalwork master; Ralph Vick. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5077783: Politics. Transport. Road safety: The Minister of Transport; Mr. Fred Mulley was 'breathalysed' this morning from Police Sergeant Syd Furner; and then had a blood sample taken by experimental Lab. Technician Gillian Martin as a demonstration for the Press. Sergeant Furner stops the Minister outside the Ministry of Transport building; . November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5077898: Seed "merry go round" at a Hertfordshire seed depot. This is the time for plotholders and gardeners to get their seed selection, and 300 girls at this St. Albans seed distribution centre are engaged on the distribution of tens of thousands of packets daily. A squad of the girls trip around the great hall picking out packets from the hundreds of pigeon holes lining the walls. January 1948 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5096407: Ken Potter and Alan Llambias, two Croupiers, have suddenly decided to do something completely different. They are going to hitch-hike "Around the World on a Brolly". Dressed as City gentlemen and armed with bowlers and umbrellas they will be advancing the patriotic theory that the "British Spirit" is not dead. January 1975 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078147: Dogs animals humor religion: "Shadow" the Alsatian follows her master - parish priest Dom Edmund Jones - everywhere he goes, even when he says mass at the Church of Christ the king, Cockfosters, Shadow is right there behind him. She follows her master into the church and lies quietly at the foot of the sanctuary steps below the altar and is right behind him when the service is over. Dom Edmund has even had special requests that the dog be invited to wedding services, and the children go to church to see the dog. Shadow lying quietly at the steps below the altar. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images