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MPX5093948: While most people today are trying to forget Christmas, workers at Napier Novelty Company Ltd in Rickmansworth, returned today and started to produce crackers for Christmas 1970. The firm produce about 4,000 dozen boxes per week and including paper hats. 49 year-old Mr. Leslie Seward from Hillingdon, surrounded by boxes of crackers, as he rolls samples for the trade. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5093985: Hundreds of children were shouting for George Best at a childrens charity party at the Odeon Cinema in Manchester today but George did not appear as he had the flu, but George Best's ex girl friend Eva Haralsted was there playing the part of Mother Christmas for the children December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5094029: The St. Mungo Community, a voluntary relief organisation among other things, operates a midnight soup run for vagrants, down and outs etc., around London. Two homeless on a bench, talking with hostel helper (kneeling) after receiving their soup on the Embankment Gardens. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images