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MPX5127790: Wigs and false hair pieces are no longer considered a luxury. Most women can own one - but few would spend £1,500 on a complete "wig wardrobe." This is exactly what one customer at Owen Owen Ltd, hairdressing salon has done. "My client has bought wigs and pieces of all colours, shapes and lengths," said Mr Kenneth Lugg, manager of the salon. This photograph shows a customer at the Owen Owen wig boutique surrounded by samples of the wig-makers craft. At the Hotel Leofric in Coventry, this week more than 100 Coventry & District hairdressers attended a "wig forum," when two representatives from a wig firm gave hints on how to care for wigs, their cleaning, cutting, perming and setting. Wigs and hairpieces of all sizes and colours were on display including a special range of toupees for men. These toupees were priced from about £14 14s. 6th March 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127832: Every girl dreams of being a princess. That dream had a touch of reality today for these 16 Coventry girls, for they were treated like princesses. The girls, past and present pupils at Cardinal Wiseman School, went to Buckingham Palace and met the Duke of Edinburgh who presented them with the gold awards they gained under his scheme. Their mothers went too, and Sister Mary Colman, headmistress when the school first embarked on the Duke's award scheme 10 years ago, and Sister Agnes, whose responsibility it was at that time. At Cardinal Wiseman, there are now 100 girls taking the bronze award, 30 the silver and 25 the gold ' more than in any previous year. The girls receiving their "golds" today have covered a wide range of interests, including music, swimming, reading, dancing, cookery, needlework, typewriting, and badminton. The 16 are Josephine Fensom, Johanna Filipuik, Linda Hamilton, Monica Henry, Geraldine Igoe, Irene Krupa, Colleen Lissamer, Carmel Maguire, Mary Malone, Mary Maughan, Rose Meehan, Mary Naughton, Dawn O'Toole, Bernadette Thiedeman, Christine Union and Nora Wright. The present headmistress, Sister Frances Clare, is an enthusiastic supporter of the scheme, for which Sister Margaret has special responsibility. Sister Margaret said today: "The school has always considered the 'scheme to be of great value in the development of character, calling as it does for perseverance and determination." 13th July 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127881: Mr David Jones at Coventry Airport with his home-made aeroplane. The plane took four years to build at a cost of £550 pounds. The plane, a single seat French designed Druine Turbulent, took it's maiden flight from Covenry to Swansea and back. Mr Jones plans to take the aircraft to Ireland and France for holidays, reaching a top spedd of 90 m.p.h, 18th June 1962 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128367: British actor and singer Gary Miller with his three children Pip (left), Jonty (centre) and Kit (2nd right) speaking with MR A S Jenkins, head of drama at Alleyn's School in Dulwich, before their production of the famous Shakespeare play "Hamlet", 12th March 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images