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MPX5158701: Mrs Diana Freeman from Headcorn, Kent says goodbye to her children Jamie and Elizabeth before setting off from her home this morning in a single engined aircraft with friend Patrick Speedy. The trip will take them as far as the Sudan, flying over some of the remotest desert in North Africa. The family, including husband Christopher, are planning a celebration when she returns in the new year. 18th December 1964 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5158507: Residents of Tir-Y-Berth stage a demonstration by stopping traffic through the village because they want a 30 m.p.h speed limit introduced. The picture was taken from the top of a double decker bus stopped by the demonstrators, as residents with placards block the road. 19th November 1966 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5158675: Castlecary 9th September 1968. A light engine passed a signal at danger after a telephone misunderstanding with the signalman, and collided with a 12-carriage passenger train waiting at the next signal. The driver and secondman of the light engine were killed. Our Picture Shows: Signalman D Craig of the Uffer Greenhill signal box seen here leaving the inquiry into the crash/ 18th September 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images