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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
MPX5078193: Tony and Andy swing along: Two determined men, each at the top of his profession. On the left, Britain's Tony Jacklin, out in California to make another assault on America's big golfing prizes. On the right, singer Andy Williams, Tony's partner during a pro-am torunament near Hollywood. During the round Tony was heard to sing. Said Andy: "If I could play golf as well as Tony can sing I thing I'd give it up." But that didn't stop Tony giving his partner some good golfing advice. January 1973 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078194: Owzat for nerve! It's Andy Williams, a man who's never played cricket in his life swinging his bat in the shadow of the Oval's famous gasometer. Andy, who is on a concert tour of Britain is due to turn out for a showbiz side at the Surrey ground in London on Sunday (30-7-72). He doesn't expect to make many runs. After all, singing is really his game. July 1972 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078197: Jimmy Tarbuck will be playing "Buttons" in the pantomime Cinderella at the Odeon in Golders Green this Christmas. As Buttons does not have a beard Jimmy got to work in his dressing room and made some quick but painful strokes with his safety razor. Jimmy started growing the beard about five weeks ago will he was on holiday. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078206: Jimmy Tarbuck will be playing "Buttons" in the pantomime Cinderella at the Odeon in Golders Green this Christmas. As Buttons does not have a beard Jimmy got to work in his dressing room and made some quick but painful strokes with his safety razor. Jimmy started growing the beard about five weeks ago will he was on holiday. Jimmy Tarbuck before the shave. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078248: German prisoners of war riddling potatoes from the "grave" (clamp) in an Endeavour to salvage what are still useable - perhaps two or three tons out of a 70 ton clamp. Where ruined potatoes were Ministry of Food reserves (to ensure supplies at the end of the season) the farmer will be compensated for his loss - but not more than 25% of his crop are so reserved. June 1947 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078265: The first lady entrant in the Ladies section of the International Ploughing Championships organised by the Northern Ireland Ploughing Association and to be held 12 February 1947 at Saintfield Co Down is Miss Joy Phillips of The Temple, Boardmills Co Down. She is assistant club leader of the Boardmills Young Farmers Club. January 1947 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078293: Accidents - Air 1974: Dive to Disaster. An american gunship helicopter crashed and exploded in flames during a press preview of the farnborough air show, Hampshire on Sunday (1.9.74) One moment it was doing a spectacular Air Ballet, the next it plunged in a terrible dive of death. September 1974 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078334: Over 5,000 farmers attended a demonstration organised by the National Farmers' Action Committee held in support of the N.F.U. negotiations. The farmers were led by their new precident Mr. Henry Plumb and arrived at the Ministry of Agriculture to open talks. Farmers with their banners mass outside the Ministry of Agriculture today. February 1970 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078354: Animals Tigers: James Chipperfield. Kumar, the 410 1b., five year old Bengal Tiger, who delights children who visit the pets Corner at Scotland's Safari Park at Blairdrummond, by Stirling, is to take on a new roll. He is to appear in a starring part in a film about to be made in Uganda and Gt. Britain so before he faces the cameras, his Boss, James Chipperfield, gives Kumar a beauty bath. November 1971 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078428: Farmers are 6 weeks behind time. Every hour counts, but the ground is not yet quite fit, for highly mechanised work, It is still heavy in parts. On Sir Peter Greenwell's estate at Caterham they are falling back to old time sowing by broadcasting. Bill Cowie, farm manager has got his men broadcasting spring wheat by hand as he learned it himself years ago. In two or three days time if this weather holds the machines will come into their own again, but there isn't an hour to lose. Bill says as long as he can get the corn in the ground he will gamble on a late summer to reap it. It's no use bemoaning the weather and if you don't put the corn in it won't grow and so he has 3 of his old hands sowing from early morning till late at night. Each man can sow 8 acres a day, and he says, who knows it may be wet in two or three days. April 1947 / Bridgeman Images