MPX5088893: The Womens' Patrol at Romford Flying Club, Mrs. Arthur Patterson the Women's Flying Instructor giving instruction to a class, Essex, 1939 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088899: Reveille Fashions. Jo Waring. October 1961 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088932: Model wearing a sleeveless black dress showing off one of the shoulder straps January 1961 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088950: The Gordon Bennett Balloon race 1925 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088959: Crowds at the starting time of the Schneider Trophy Race September 1931 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088962: Fashions: Hartnell's number one. This luxury travel outfit from royal dressmaker Hartnell was among a collection of Spring Fashions from the top London designers. Snow lepard trims the tunic coat, which top the hip-length overblouse and straight skirt. February 1958 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088766: Commonwealth Conference: Left to right back row: - Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, Mr. Lester Pearson (Canada); Liaquat Ali Khan (Pakistan); Mr. Peter Fraser (New Zealand); and Dr. Malan (South Africa); Don Senayake (Ceylon); Mr. P. J. Noel Ð Baker. Left to right seated: - Mrs. Attlee; Pandit Nehru (India); Lady Cripps; Mrs. Malan; Mr. Clement Attlee; Begum Ali Khan and Mr. Joseph Chiffley (Australia). April 1949 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088787: Jennifer Wilson wearing an apron over her black dress. March 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089034: Motor car racing at Goodwood, Cars on the starting grid before the race, June 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089152: Fashion Clothing: 20 years old Vicky Maybury who started modelling after winning a newspaper contest, is 5ft 9 inches tall and has the longest legs in the modelling world. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089081: Ruth Papendick (centre) as Madame Larina in the Stuttgart Ballet production of John CrankoÕs ballet ÒOneginÓ at Covent Garden. July 1974 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089212: Fashion Clothing: 20 years old Vicky Maybury who started modelling after winning a newspaper contest, is 5ft 9 inches tall and has the longest legs in the modelling world. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089162: Five sick biafran children who have fled their war torn home arrived in London Yesterday (Fri) on a Mercy Flight from ULI. Their aircraft left the airstrip only minutes after a bombing raid on Wednesday. The two teenaged girls, two boys aged 10 and five and an 18 months old baby girl will be cared for in hospitals in England and Ireland. Veronica Ido (on stretcher). December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089953: Pasting, see that the paper is in line with the edge of the table. Brushing from centre to the outside, making an even distribution of paste. November 1953 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5090054: Actress Anne Irving posing for pictures, November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5090135: Four year old schoolby evacuee Michael Bubbear helping to slice cucumbers in half to be dessededin the Enlish countryside in the Second World War October 1942 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089989: Reveille Fashions. March 1967 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5090078: Jonathan King posed with 17 year old model Mary Colinson from Malta for a pin-up photograph for a calendar to be sent to disc jockeys and producers to plug Jonathan's current record "Let It All Hang Out" which has just entered the best sellers. The message on the calendar will read Let it all hangout for 1970. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5090091: An injured RAF man is welcomed home after being injured during a mission in Holland in the Second World War May 1940 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5090159: Fred Wycherley of Wolverhampton is a "Smeller" the official smeller and his job is to smell out the stinkers at a Wolverhampton brewery He spends his working life shifting ground Barrels, hogsheads and firkins. Each year he sniffs at 300,000 of them. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5090177: Fred Wycherley of Wolverhampton is a "Smeller" the official smeller and his job is to smell out the stinkers at a Wolverhampton brewery He spends his working life shifting ground Barrels, hogsheads and firkins. Each year he sniffs at 300,000 of them. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5090184: Comedian Tommy Handley with two modern girl secretaries at Jack Hylton's new revue ITMA (It's That Man Again) premier in Birmingahm during the Second World War February 1940 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5090202: Gulliver, all 21ft of him, weighing 6cwt, made of metal, needed a crane to start him on his journey from Cheyney Walk in Chelsea to Tokyo, Japan. Gulliver is the metal creation by cartoonist, artist, Gerald Scarfe and is one of twelve characters that Gerald is making for the British Pavilion at the Expo '70 to be held in Tokyo in March. The metal monster took Gerald three months to put together, using welding apparatus, he made is in the garden of his home in Chelsea in two halves and each half had to be hoisted by crane from the garden, over two garden walls to the side road where it was packed away into large crates. The other characters that Mr. Scarfe will be working on are Hamlet, MacBeth, Robinson Crusoe, Samuel Johnson, Long John Silver, Pick Wick, Alice 'thru the looking glass, Oliver, Shakespeare, James Bond and My Fair Lady. Bearded Gerald Scarfe with Gulliver. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5090228: Diana Frost to spend Xmas in the Sahara Desert, 19th December 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088451: Teenager Penny Vancliff, a factory girl who wants to be a London model. Penny at work on her sewing machine at the Blyth factory. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088468: The Northumbria Police launch on the River Tyne at Newcastle, c.1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089623: Anicient and modern fire engines stand side by side at Morpeth Fire Station, left to right, Fireman N G Wilkinson, Leading fireman R Rochester and Sub-officer K A Shell, c.1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099281: The remains of the Elizabethan tail plane which crashed at London Airport on Wednesday night (3-7-68), July 1968 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099388: Audrey Hepburn, November 1950 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099369: Jane Fonda Actress with husband Roger Vadim shortly before appearing on British television in the Eamon Andrews Show, 11/10/1965 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099442: Under her own steam the new liner Empress of England ship (now called Ocean Monarch 1970) makes her way up the River Tyne, c. 1950 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099378: The passenger ship Fair Sea of the famous Sitmar line, the first non-British ship to carry immigrants from Britain to Australia. 16th September 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099451: Prefab Sprout sign autographs for fans at the HMV music store in Newcastle. (Left to right) Martin McAloon, Wendy Smith, Neil Conti and Paddy McAloon. 15/03/1988 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099520: Archers challenge darts players to a game of darts, with the Archers using their bows and arrows. Circa 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099471: Once the proud Cunard liner, Carmania, this is all that remains of her at the Blyth ship breaking yard of Messrs. Hughes, Bolckow in 1933 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099557: A girls night out One of four friends enjoy a pint down the local pub. Circa 1975 / Bridgeman Images