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MPX5063206: Derry fire in Northern Ireland. For one young boy - a front row seat as just one more building in his city is destroyed. This was the scene at "aggro" corner in the Bogside as fire destroyed three more shop premises. 24 hours earlier a gelignite bomb had badly damaged the same premises. July 1972 72-7291-001 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5071849: Winter's first snows have been no help when it comes to mastering the arts of ski-ing. Even though she was on an indoor slope, Miss Maureen Beech came a purler when she tried her luck on a huge indoor ski slope at a holiday and travel exhibition in Brighton. She really let the British side down for there to see her spectacular tumble were a band of Austrian folk dancers in town for the exhibition. Because as well as performing their Tyrol Whirls they are all expert skiers too. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5071851: Winter's first snows have been no help when it comes to mastering the arts of ski-ing. Even though she was on an indoor slope, Miss Maureen Beech came a purler when she tried her luck on a huge indoor ski slope at a holiday and travel exhibition in Brighton. She really let the British side down for there to see her spectacular tumble were a band of Austrian folk dancers in town for the exhibition. Because as well as performing their Tyrol Whirls they are all expert skiers too. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5071966: National Fire Service and Civil Defence get a break for tea which was brought round on a tray by women CD workers. People were trapped under debris of flats in Southern England and were being searched for and dug out by the lights of flares through the night. August 1944 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5071987: The Millinery Guild showed their Spring Collection of hats at the Dorchester, London. Geraldine Davies wearing a Sailor in Japonica and white felt, when the Sailor is removed the model reveals a head-hugging culotte in which is easy to lean back and rest - by McCracken and Bowen. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images