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MPX5071807: 21 year old Sheila Ruskin born in Cheshire, plays the unusal part of a Runcible Spoon in Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat Went to Sea" This new musical play for children opens for the Christmas season at the Jeanette Cochrane Theatre. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5071819: 21 year old Sheila Ruskin born in Cheshire, plays the unusal part of a Runcible Spoon in Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat Went to Sea" This new musical play for children opens for the Christmas season at the Jeanette Cochrane Theatre. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5071837: Tiny Tim is to take part in tonights charity Save Rave pop show at the London Palladium, which Princess Margaret will attend. Tiny Tim will be wearing three neck ties given to him by his girl friend Vicki, he will wear them all at once, when he goes to bed they go on his pillow. Tiny Tim wearing his three ties at the Palladium today. November 1969 / 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
MPX5071858: Gravesend to Calais 48 hour trip Via Ferry dancing and French Cafe culture. June 1960 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5071900: Gravesend to Calais 48 hour trip Via Ferry dancing and French Cafe culture. English Girls enjoying French refreshment and toasting each other with wine in a Calais Cafe. June 1960 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5071906: Gravesend to Calais 48 hour trip Via Ferry dancing and French Cafe culture. June 1960 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5071909: Family pictures of Alan and Maureen Rothwell, with babies Tody aged 2 years and Ben aged 16 months, playing on the swings and slides at their local play ground. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5071930: Yearling "Ribchester" son of the famous "Ribot" pictured today at the stables of Mr. Faulke Johnson Houghton, at Blewbury, Berkshire. Ribchester cantering today with stable lad Allan Cawley up. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5071948: Gravesend to Calais 48 hour trip Via Ferry dancing and French Cafe culture. June 1960 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5071951: A woman posing wearing a mini dress and holding a shot gun November 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
MPX5071981: British Army soldier giving out lollipops to children in Shankhill Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland. November 1969 / 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
MPX5072035: Volunteers for the mustard gas tests at the London Homeopathic Hospital. March 1942 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5071778: Tory leader Edward Heath bought himself an early Christmas present, when he did a bit of shopping, before dashing to catch his train back south, after being in Manchester on a lunch engagement. He spent five pounds to buy a blue sweater, after first trying on a brown one. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5071796: Beach scenes at Brighton. Sylvia Worsford and Margaret Kenneavy. June 1960 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5071805: Yoga. Only the Centre Court would produce a similar nerve-racking moment for a tennis player...shakily trying a yoga exercise (above) is Carol Yates-Bell. Showing how it should be done is yoga expert Mr. Bombay Iyengar. They were at the pre-Wimbledon party given by Lady Crosfield at her Highgate home yesterday. Watching are (left to right) tennis stars Angela Buxton, Pat Hird, Shusha Asar, Gillian Evans and Pauline Roberts. June 1960 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5071932: Family pictures of Alan and Maureen Rothwell, with babies Tody aged 2 years and Ben aged 16 months, playing on the swings and slides at their local play ground. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5071986: Robot plane damage at East Lane, Walworth. Just rescued from the rubble, a rescued man smiles whilst his picture is taken. June 1944 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5072025: Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Tufton Street, Westminister, at an incident caused by robot plane. July 1944 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5072018: Yearling "Ribchester" son of the famous "Ribot" pictured today at the stables of Mr. Faulke Johnson Houghton, at Blewbury, Berkshire. Ribchester cantering today with stable lad Allan Cawley up. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5072024: Herb Alpert of the Tijuana Brass. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5072027: An antiquecollector's paradise. Shepherd's Market in Mayfair, one of the least spoiled corners of Regency London. Circa 1950 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5072066: British Army soldier giving out lollipops to children in Shankhill Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5072079: Women. Dock Strike. On the left is Mrs. Demmon, her husband was a Docker, now abroad in the army. She has eight children. She, like several other women seen in the district, goes about barefooted so that they can purchase footwear for their children. Seen talking to Mrs. Mary Reading, a Dockers wife, who has to budget for ten. She also is wearing make-do footwear. Taken outside their homes in Chauntler Road, Victoria Docks. October 1945 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5072118: British Rail are contributing to the Lord Mayor's show with a section of a dining and sleeper car of the present system. Today at Liverpool street the Lord Mayor's show exhibit was on view. The British Rail hotesses in the show, photographed alongside the Lord Mayor's show exhibit. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5072121: Woman skiing on the mountain slopes at Murren, Switzerland 1922 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5072133: Giant water lily at Kew Gardens, London. The Victoria regia, a water lily of Brazil noted for the strength of its leaves which can hold the weight of a child 1923 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5072139: General view showing Mudeford Haven and quay in Dorset, August 1928 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5072142: Woman photographing a cow at Schynige Platte in Switzerland August 1929 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5072151: American student Suzanne Giddings in her revealing dress at Sheffield Students Union. October 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5072169: Gypsies on the downs at Epsom, Surrey 1932 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5072172: As part of Mexican Week in Bond Street, London, the famous Mexican Ambassadors of Mexican song" Maria De Lourdes, with her troupe of Mariachis, Jose Chavez and "Oroy Plata" were due to march up Bond Street playing and singing. Unfortunately they were not aware of the by-laws, apparently they should have had a musicians licence. That was not all - they were also told by the police that they should not be in fancy dress. The troupe in Bond Street walk past the police who said 'no singing or playing". November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5072102: Woman wearing mini dress with belt across the waist and knee high boots. October 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5072156: Woman wearing mini dress with belt across the waist and knee high boots. October 1969 / Bridgeman Images