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MPX5166672: WW2 Queens Messenger Convoy Coventry Victims of the bomb raids queue up for much welcomed food relief from the Queens Messenger Convoy food truck. Counter open inside of lorry serving drinks and refreshments to men, women and children on road side in Coventry, 1940s (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5166722: Third division Bristol Rovers from the West of England achieved the biggest success in their history on Saturday when they beat Sheffield united in the final of the pre season Watney Cup. They won 7-6 on penalties. Picture shows: Jubilation in Bristol Rovers dressing room after they won. 5th August 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5166740: The scene at Cramlington Aerodrome as the AD1 (ADI), (G-FAAX) the first non-rigid airship built in the UK since World War One, came out for its first flight. It's progress was keenly followed by members of Newcastle Aero Club and officials of Cramlington Aerodrome. The airship was later destroyed in a storm in Belgium in 1930. Captain Angus Weir McColl (left) fastening white heather to the wires of the airship for luck and Mr J W Long, coxswain, ready for the start. 13th September, 1929 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5166744: This locomotive Killingworth Billy built by George Stephenson for Killingworth Colliery in 1830 and newly preserved on one of the Newcastle Central Station platforms may be transferred to the Municipal Museum in Exhibition Park, Newcastle since the plat form space it occupies is involved in alterations on 14th October 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images