MPX5078078: Boxing: Jack Petersen v George Cook at Cardiff. Petersen won the fight on points June 1933 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078091: Conserative Candidate Mathew Parris electioneering in Hathersage, Derbyshire. In the Villages Dale Estate. April 1979 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078094: Military Army: The 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles, many whom have seen action in Borneo, are visiting England especially to take part in the Lord Mayor's show on Saturday (No. 8) These 35 Gurkhas, who have come from Hong Kong, were playing their pipes and drums on the steps of St. Pauls Cathedral, dress in their colourful rifle green dress uniforms. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078103: Lulu the baby elephant at Chessington Zoo, was weighed-in, for Lulu was the star of a competition organised by Tyne Brand, for contestants to judge what Lulu's weight would be on this date. Amongst the judges was boxing champion Henry Cooper, Mr. H. A. Snazle Gen. Manager of Chessington Zoo, and Mr. R.W. Hampson, Marketing Manager of Spillers Ltd. Lulu on the scales being watched by her keeper Alex Smith, and Henry Cooper. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078201: A group of fire women smoking pipes down the local pub. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078246: A woman posing for photographs wearing a striped mini dress. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078249: Seven year old boy playing songs on the piano which he has written himself. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078282: Disaster Blast At Flixborough: A massive blast ripped apart an entire village late on Saturday afternoon, 1st June 1974. At least 29 people died and 100 houses were wrecked when an explosion shook the Nypro chemical plant at the Lincolnshire village of Flixborough. 3,000 people were evacuated as firemen tried to prevent an escape of poisonous gas from ammonia tanks, seven miles away in Scunthorpe flying glass caused injuries and homes shook thirty miles away. The scene of devastation at Nypro works, Flixborough. June 1974 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078300: Accidents - Air 1974: The Hopeless Journey: He knew the journey was hopeless, but he didnÍt know what else to do. 29-year-old Salih Yardimici, a Turk living in London, was on his way to LondonÍs Heathrow Airport to be reunited with his wife Vildan when he heard of the DC10 crash in a French forest on Sunday (3-3-74). Salih Yardimici at Ermenonville Forest in France, the scene of the crash in which his young wife died. March 1974 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078312: Accidents: Leslie Rowley (15 months) of Glastonbury Crescent, Mossley Estate, Blowich, Staffordshire being bathed by Nurse Hilda Johnston. Leslie has been in hospital for two months with scald burns. December 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078370: Spike Milligan, during filming for his part in his new TV series as a Pakistani. The series, written by Johnny Speight, is called "Curry and Chips". November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078162: 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

MPX5078209: Harvesting is now in full swing all over the country. O.P.S. Reaper and binder at work near Cambridge. August 1946 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078242: Jimmy Tarbuck playing "Buttons" in the pantomime Cinderella at the Odeon in Golders Green, November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078245: A woman posing for photographs wearing a striped mini dress. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078305: Spike Milligan making up for his part in his new TV series as a Pakistani. The series, written by Johnny Speight, is called "Curry and Chips". November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078332: Spike Milligan making up for his part in his new TV series as a Pakistani. The series, written by Johnny Speight, is called "Curry and Chips". November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078122: Queues at Piccadilly bus station in Manchester. October 1946 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078128: An injured man among his furniture, including a piano following a german doodlebug attack at Deptford. June 1944 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078134: Motors Germany Volkswagen Beatle. May 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078170: Writer, Gavin Lyall pictured at his home at Provost Road, Chalk Farm, N.W.3. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078173: A female racegoer at Royal Ascot on Ladies Day wearing a rose motif dress with matching scarf and hat . June 1925 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078179: Anything can happen when the lads play Uppies and Doonies . . . including a dip in the nippy river water. April 1974 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078208: Agriculture Harvesting: Two days of sun and wind have dried out the corn crop sufficiently for threshing. At the first sign of the sun farmers and their men, many on "extended leave" from the Forces, went into the fields in an effort to save the harvest. A threshing crew working hard to get the grain out before more rain falls. September 1946 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078232: They Have Chosen Farming As A Career: There are a number of girls taking the 12 months course in farming and horticulture at the Surrey County Council Farm Institute at Merrist Wood, near Guildford. 45 students, men and girls, on the 430 acre farm are learning milk production, cattle management, vet science, botany, zoology, bee keeping. Mary Coleridge of Wimbledon and Judy Hitchcock of Tollworth are very masterful with the calf Tulip II whom they are "drenching" administering a tonic. June 1949 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078268: A woman posing for photographs wearing a striped mini dress. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078271: Disaster Blast at Flixborough: A massive blast ripped apart on entire village late on Saturday afternoon, Ist June 1974. At least 29 people died and 100 houses were wrecked when an explosion shook the Nypro chemical plant at the Lincolnshire village of Flixborough. 3,000 people were evacuated as firemen tried to prevent an escape of poisonous gas from ammonia tanks, seven miles away in Scunthorpe flying glass caused injuries and homes shook thirty miles away. The scene of devastation at Nypro works, Flixborough. June 1974 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078280: Gas Blast Rips Through Mine: Three miners died and eight others were taken critically ill to hospital after a fireball roared through the Golborne pit, near Wigan, Lancashire. March 1979 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078283: Spike Milligan, during a break in filming for his part in his new TV series as a Pakistani. The series, written by Johnny Speight, is called "Curry and Chips". November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078286: A woman posing for photographs wearing a striped mini dress. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078298: Funeral for Nantes Air Crash Victims: The service in progress at Nantes. March 1973 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078304: Spike Milliga making up for his part in his new TV series as a Pakistani. The series, written by Johnny Speight, is called "Curry and Chips". November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078338: Mr. John Watson of Ryburgh, near Fakenham, Norfolk Farm has taught his wife to sow seeds with the old fashion fiddle or broadcaster, this helps to solve the man power shortage. It is possible to sow 20 acres with these instruments which fling the seeds three yards, Pictures show the farmer and his wife, She is learning to sow hay seed with her husband. March 1948 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078377: A caravan being towed by a mini clubman car. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5076577: Man driving a steam powered out in the countryside December 1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5076585: Man driving a steam powered out in the countryside December 1970 / Bridgeman Images