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MPX5090937: The Good Samaritans stand on parade in a hospital ward. They are some of the volunteers who stopped a small hospital from shutting down. They came to the rescue of matron Miss Queenie Graham after only two nurses turned up for duty. Most of her staff of 31 were victims of the flu epidemic which has hit Merseyside. But willing hands were ready when the call went out for helpers. Nearly 50 offers flooded the switchboard at the 50 bed Sir Alfred Jones Memorial Hospital, at Garston, Liverpool. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5091008: Comedian Roy Hudd who is currently starring in "The Sleeping Beauty" at the Wimbledon Theatre, has got 10 tiny 'sleeping beauties' of his own to greet the New Year. Boxer dog Lily is the proud mother, and this is her first litter which she tends with great care. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5091056: Royal Air force squadron leader driving his jeep is halted for alift at an RAF Airfield built in the heart of the jungle in Ceylon during the Second World War. The camp has been designed like the heart of London and named after many of the well known thoroughfares April 1944 / Bridgeman Images